Financial aspects of water supply and sanitation in transboundary waters of South-Eastern Europe
The countries of South-Eastern Europe (SEE)3 face daunting water resources
challenges as the needs for investments into water supply, sanitation,
irrigation and hydroelectricity grow; as water quality is often described as
not adequate coupled with an increase in environmental and social concerns;
and as the threats posed by floods and droughts are exacerbated by climate
change which was illustrated by the most recent floods in Bulgaria and
Romania during the summer of 2005. Although the SEE region can be broadly
characterised as water abundant, the water resources are unevenly
distributed among the countries thereby leading to water shortages in some
countries and during dry periods (i.e. an uneven spatial and temporal
distribution of water flows) causing water shortages in localities
throughout the SEE region. Moreover, surface as well as groundwater
resources shared among a variety of users from different South-Eastern
European countries are under a range of natural but also man-made
pressures.
The objective of this study is to provide an overview of the current
situation of the reform process regarding water legislation and the
institutional arrangements prevailing in the seven South-Eastern European
countries. The study also discusses the use of economic instruments in the
countries of the SEE region and highlights the investments needs for water
infrastructure programmes although this information is not available in a
comprehensive and consistent format. Furthermore, it presents a
concept developed by the German bank Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) as
a tool for
funding water investment based on transparent selection criteria.
Creator | Stefan Speck, Vierthalergasse 6, 1120 Vienna, Austria (email: stefan.speck@chello.at) |
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Publisher | Stefan Speck, Vierthalergasse 6, 1120 Vienna, Austria |
Type of document | Report |
Rights | Public |
File link |
http://www.bmu.de/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/financial_aspect_water_investment.pdf |
Source of information | Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany |
Keyword(s) | EU-WFD |
Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , FINANCE-ECONOMY , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , WATER QUALITY |
Geographical coverage | Slovenia, Hungary, Moldova, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina |