Technical Reports Parts C,D - ICPDR

156 Danube Pollution Reduction Programme – National Review, Ukraine
The transboundary impact from pollution may occur: from oil pollution; nutrient, heavy metals and
bacteriological pollution including pathogenic bacteria.
The high level of nutrient affects the ecosystem and water quality of rivers causing alga blooming,
reduction of biodiversity. The poor water quality due to bacteriological pollution adversely affects
human health and recreational resources and imposes the epidemiological threat.
Toxic industrial pollutants induce adverse mutagenic changes in human and aquatic life, decrease
reproduction of fish stocks, cause malformations of infants and complications during pregnancy of
women, impact the biodiversity and abundance of biological species.
The inappropriate agricultural practices and land mismanagement induce land erosion and
following silting of rivers. The deforestation especially in upper reaches of the Danube increases
diffuse pollution and creates the permanent threat of catastrophic flooding.
1. High priority tasks
mitigation of environmental impact; improvement of recreational and other functions of
existing water bodies at the territories nearby Uzhgorod, Velyky Bychkiv and Teresva
2. Medium priority tasks
Chernivtsi, Izamail, Kolomyia, Rakhiv
3. Ranking of priority investments are carried out in correspondence with ranking of
transboundary impact assessment on water quality in the Danube River basin.
Description of transboundary impact and trends in water quality are given in Chapter “Water
Quality”.
Assessment of significant transboundary impact is presented in “Updating Hot Spots” and
“Ranking Hot Spots” in Chapter “Water Quality”.