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This website has been designed to provide all stakeholders with up-to-date information on the status of the Dniester River Basin, work of joint basin management bodies, and progress of the Global Environment Facility’s project “Enabling transboundary co-operation and integrated water resources management in the Dniester River Basin”.
Ordinary meeting of the Working Group on Water Monitoring and Information Exchange held in December 2022On December 7-8, 2022, a meeting of the Working Group on water monitoring and information exchange was held in Chisinau …
Youth summer school “Dniester-2022” by “Eco-TIRAS”14th Youth Summer School “Dniester 2022” was held from July 8 to 17 on the bank of the Dniester (Nistru camp, Molovata Noua village) …
12th International Dniester Conference12th International Dniester Conference was held on October 27-28, 2022 by the International Association of River Keepers “Eco-TIRAS” …
WINNERS OF THE XIV BASIN-WIDE COMPETITION “COLOURS OF THE DNIESTER” ANNOUNCED14th Basin-wide contest of creativity “Colours of the Dniester” motto was “Common River – Common Future” …
Outreach activities on ecological restoration of the Iahorlyk river: feedback and lessons learned by the…Outreach event on the outcomes of restoration activities took place on 3 December 2021 by the Iahorlyk River …
WINNERS OF THE XIII BASIN-WIDE COMPETITION “COLOURS OF THE DNIESTER” ANNOUNCEDThis year, the competition was held under the motto “Save Biodiversity – Preserve Nature’s Palette!” …
The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe that runs along the state border between the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The total length of the Dniester is 1,362 km and its basin area is 72.1 thousand sq.km.
There are 62 towns and 95 townships in the Ukrainian part of the Dniester Basin, and 2 municipalities (Municipias) and 41 towns within the Moldovan part of the Basin, both on the left and right banks of the river. The total population of the Dniester Basin within Ukraine and Moldova is over 7 million people. Over 5 million people live in Ukraine and 2.74 million people in Moldova.
The disastrous floods in 2008 and 2010 in the Dniester Basin reminded once again that the existing flood protection facilities only partially fulfil their functions today. The effectiveness of the modern protection facilities will decline as the floods are expected to become more powerful in the future.
On December 7-8, 2022, a meeting of the Working Group on water monitoring and information exchange was held in Chisinau ...
On December 7-8, 2022, a meeting of the Working Group on water monitoring and information exchange was held in Chisinau ...
This section will be completed after approval of the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) of the Dniester Basin tentatively in early 2019.
One of the current priorities of the environmental policies of both the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine is to harmonize national legislation with the legislation of the European Union. Both states have taken a number of measures aimed at the gradual harmonization of the laws of both countries in the area of environmental protection, natural resources and environmental security with the relevant EU directives.
The Commission on Sustainable Use and Protection of the Dniester River Basin (the Dniester Commission) was established under the Treaty between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Cooperation in the Field of Protection and Sustainable Development of the Dniester River Basin, which was signed on 29 November 2012.
Plenipotentiaries and their two deputies are appointed to facilitate the implementation of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of Ukraine on the Joint Use and Protection of Border Waters (1994).
The project was developed at the request of the governments of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine with financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The objective of the project is to introduce a framework for integrated water resource management in the Dniester River Basin to ensure its sustainable development.
The project “Enabling transboundary co-operation and integrated water resources management in the Dniester River Basin” is planned to be implemented in 2017-2020. The project facilitates the implementation of natural and water resource management reforms currently being pursued in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The beneficiaries of this project are the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment of the Republic of Moldova and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine. The project implementation is entrusted to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, Istanbul) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE, Vienna-Kiev-Chisinau), with the support of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE, Geneva).
This section presents a project implementation plan for December 2017 – December 2018.
Final Stakeholders Conference (on-line)
Third meeting of the Project Steering Committee (on-line)
Exchange of experience with the experts of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
