DEVELOPMENT OF SAVA RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT ... - ICPDR

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Table 2: Summarised assessment of Water Management Issues relevant for the Sava
river basin (national responses)
SAVA Key Water Management Issues (WFD relevant) Country
SAVA KWI Summary SI HR BA SRB
Pressures &
Impacts
Pollution
Hydromorpho
-logical
alterations
Exploitation of Fisheries and
other living resources
Floods
Invasive Species / Neobiota
Socioeconomic
Issues
significant
changes with
respect to
transboundary
water
Nutrient loads no yes yes yes
Hazardous substances yes no yes yes
Organic no yes yes yes
Emergency preparedness yes
Thermal no yes no no
Longitudinal connectivity no no yes yes
Lateral connectivity no no no no
Hydrological alterations (water
abstraction, excessive withdrawals
of surface and/or GW for human
uses, residual water) no yes yes no
Drinking water supply yes
Sediment management yes
Changes in freshwater availability
(drinking water supply no no no no
Habitat and community
modification – loss of ecosystems
or ecotones yes yes/no yes no
Over-exploitation no no no no
Excessive by-catch and discards no no no no
Decreased viability of stocks
through contamination and disease no no no no
Impact on biological and genetic
diversity yes no yes no
Use of natural retention areas yes yes yes yes
Technical flood management yes yes yes yes
Emergency preparedness yes yes yes yes
Introduced species yes yes/no yes no
Introduced diseases no yes/no yes no
Decrease or Increase of Population no yes no no
Industrial production (e.g. decrease
or increase of abstraction and
sewage) no yes no no