Action Plan for management of Dniester water basin.

Action Plan for management of Dniester water basin covers Dniester water basin, which is part of the Black Sea water basin. Feeders of the Dniester river on the right side, within the Republic of Moldova, are heavily polluted, and the water of these feeders can be used only for generation of electricity and for navigation, while its use for other purposes requires pre-treatment. The Dniester River is the main source of water that can fully meet the needs of the population in potable water and the needs of the Moldovan economy as a whole. The quality of water and the state of the environment as a whole in the Dniester River basin in the country are conditioned by numerous loads and impacts of geodynamic and anthropogenic origin that affect waterbodies. Based on this, the definition of loads and impacts should be considered as a permanent and absolutely necessary work to reduce them by means of arrangements substantiated from scientific and economic points of view, in order to ensure their sustainability and quality of the environment in the Dniester district. In order to implement measures to reduce the level of pollution from point sources, it is necessary to determine the impacts caused thereby, and, respectively, monitoring of the number of these sources and the amount of pollutants released into the environment is necessary. These measures are costly, require a quantitative assessment for the economic substantiation of the segregated resource planning. Food industry enterprises are the sources of heavy freshwater pollution. Animal breeding waste is a considerable source of surface water, groundwater and soil pollution by chemical and bacteriological pollutants. Substantial efforts will be made to further implement the adoption of effective waste management policies, the application of economic and regulatory tools aimed at (i) preventing the generation of waste through the use of clean technologies, (ii) reducing waste through the use of best practices in each the area in which the waste is generated, and (iii) the development of waste by re-use, recycling or energy recovery, by resorting to combustion or controlled by as an extreme option. Information on the quality of waterbodies required for the assignment of quality classes should be completed as soon as possible in order to be able to regulate monitoring programs and, accordingly, identify and implement measures aimed at improving the quality of waterbodies. Action Plan sets forth the following priorities for the control of: (a) pollution by organic substances; (b) pollution by concentration of nutritional substances due to discharge of inappropriately treated sewerage water by agricultural and industrial enterprises; (c) pollution by hazardous substances and pesticides; (d) hydromorphological changes; and (e) groundwater pollution due to irresponsible and inappropriate management. General objectives of Dniester water basin management shall be classified as follows: (a) prevention of deterioration of the surface and groundwater status until 2022; (b) protection and improvement of surface waterbodies, including those covered by the designation of highly modified waterbodies and artificial waterbodies, as well as groundwater, to achieve a "good condition" by 2030; and (c) gradual reduction of pollution level of surface waterbodies and groundwater from contaminated and diffuse sources.