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Ways to improve the groundwater monitoring
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics - Theoretical and Applied Aspects, May 2018, Volume 2018, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Summary
The aim of sustainable development is to meet the human needs in natural resources, while preserving the interests of future generations, requires systematic approach. The implementation of such systematic approach is the creation of international standards and directives. The regulation of quality and quantity of water in the EU is in accordance with the EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC. The policy of Ukraine aiming to develop Ukraine-EU relations is based on the Law of Ukraine dating from the signing of Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.
In this study an analysis of the compliance of the Ukraine’s legislative framework in the field of groundwater management with the requirements of similar European documents was conducted; a systematic analysis of the implemented activities in Ukraine on the way to implementation of the European principles of water resources management was carried out; a map of the basin water resources management in accordance with the requirements of the WFD on the basis of the scheme of hydrographic zoning of the Ukrainian territory in 2013 was created.
In general the purpose, main objectives of the monitoring, its organization by the Water Code of Ukraine are not contrary to the main positions of similar European documents. Actually, their most significant difference from the European ones is that they are mostly declarative. However, in the author’s opinion, the regulation of surface water and groundwater cannot be reduced to a single River Basin Management Plan, because of the lack of correspondence between the boundaries of river basins and aquifers.
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