Report on the State of Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2007“, Briefly Entitled As the „Blue Report“

By December 2007 Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic Draft introduction Dear readers, you have in your hands the eleventh edition of the „Report on the State of Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2007“, briefly entitled as the „Blue Report“. This publication is a summary informational material which brings a complex information on the state of our waters and information on all water-management services which take care of water sources and their use by inhabitants and national economy. The flood situations in previous ten years made the public concentrate on flood-protection measures and rectification of flood damage, which is the reason you get a detailed information on projects and financial resources in this field. In 2007 next stages of programmes aimed at intensification of flood-protection measures in competence of Ministry of Agriculture started. Between the years 2007 – 2012 they will enable the implementation of events on watercourses, reservoirs, fishponds and in landscape in the amount of app. CZK 15 billion. Thanks to the support within the programmes of Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of the Environment there has also been a significant progress in the construction of sewerage systems and waste water treatment plants. As a result of this there has been a rise in the proportion of inhabitants connected to these systems, which exceeded 80 %. Over 95 % of the amount of discharged waste water is treated, which of course helps to improve the quality of water in our watercourses, as illustrated in the maps of cleaniness of water in comparison with the years 1990 – 2007. The decrease in the number of accident pollution by more than 13 %, unlike in 2006, had also a positive effect. Other improvement in quality of technological processes of waste water treatment is needed, with the aim to reduce the burden of water sources by nutrients, which contribute to growth of algae in the sum- 2 Report on the State of Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2007 mer months and have negative consequences for the quality of water. Both legislative amendments to regulations, plans and programmes for measures enabling the improvement of the state of aquatic ecosystems help to supress this unfavourable trend. Preparation of these documents is in progress, some partial information is men- tioned, and in 2009 a discussion with public will be held. Over 92 % of inhabitants are supplied with drinking water from public water supply systems, which is above the average of the EU member countries. Also the data from monitoring confirm the high standard of the water quality. It is also important to mention the WATER – Information system of the Czech Republic, which is an internet source of data for both professional and general public on states of water, precipitation, water quality etc.: www.voda.gov.cz and serves not only during the flood situations but also if you want to plan your trips, hiking etc. Since 2007 the public have had a unique possibility to connect also through WAP (www.voda.gov.cz/wap). I believe that the content of the „Blue Report“ of 2007 will provide all readers with significant information and will inform you that the situation of water sources and their usage for our everyday needs cannot be taken for granted, and that it also represents a wide scope of activities with high financial demands. Mgr. Petr Gandalovič Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic Report on the State of Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2007 3 Content 1 Hydrological balance 7 1.1 Temperature and rainfall situation 7 1.2 Outflow situation 7 1.3 Groundwater regime 10 2 Flood situation in 2007 13 2.1 Course of floods 13 2.2 Rectification of flood damage 13 3 Quality of surface water and groundwater 15 3.1 Quality of surface water 15 3.2 Quality of groundwater 21 3.3 Monitoring of water in the Czech Republic in 2007 pursuant to the requirements 23 of the Framework directive 4 Handling water 25 4.1 Abstractions of surface water 25 4.2 Abstractions of groundwater 26 4.3 Discharges of waste water 26 5 Sources of pollution 29 5.1 Point sources of pollution 29 5.2 Broad area pollution 31 5.3 Accident pollution 31 6 Administration od watercourses 33 6.1 Professional administration of watercourses 33 6.2 River Boards, state enterprises 35 6.3 Agricultural Water Management Authority 40 6.4 Forests of the Czech Republic, state enterprise 43 6.5 Waterways 47 7 Water supply and sewerage systems 49 7.1 Drinking water supply 49 7.2 Removal and treatment of communal waste water 51 7.3 Development of water supply and sewerage charges 52 4 Report on the State of Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2007 8 Fisheries and fishpond management 55 8.1 Fisheries and fishpond management in 2007 55 8.2 Changes in state of fishponds 57 9 State financial support for the water management 59 9.1 Financial support of the Ministry of Agriculture 59 9.2 Financial support of the Ministry of the Environment 64 9.3 State environmental fund 65 9.4 Financial support from foreign cooperation and the EU 66 10 Legislative instruments 69 10.1 Water Act and implementing regulations 69 10.2 Implementing regulations for the act concerning water supply and sewer 70 systems 10.3 Other regulations 70 10.4 Inspection of excercise of state administration in the field of water managemant 70 11 Priority tasks, programmes and core documents in water 73 management 11.1 Planning in the field of water 73 11.2 Plans for development of water supply and sewerage systems 74 11.3 Programmes and instruments for reducing pollution of surface water 75 11.4 Water – Information system of the Czech Republic 80 11.5 Reporting activity of the Czech Republic to the EU 82 12 International relations 85 12.1 International cooperation on border waters 85 12.2 International and regional cooperation in unified catchment areas of the 87 European rivers Elbe, Odra and Danube 13 Research and development in water management 91 13.1 Research and development in the competence of the Ministry of Agriculture 91 13.2 Research and development in the competence of the Ministry of the 92 Environment Explanation of abbreviations in the text 93 Report on the State of Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2007 5 Vítězslav Liberda, 12 years, B. Dvorský basic school, Ostrava - Hrabůvka „Bubble“ (Moravia-Silesia region) Hydrological Balance 1.1 Temperature and rainfall situation After the hot years 2005 and 2006 the year 2007 belonged among the highly above-average years with the average annual temperature of 9.3 °C (+1.8 °C above the long-term average). In Moravia and Si- lesia the temperature was slightly higher with the average temperature of 9.4 °C. The average temperature in Bohemia was 9.2 °C. December was the coldest month of 2007, the average temperature was Labe river, Kunčice nad Labem –0.9 °C, i.e., +0.1 °C above the long- term average (N). The winter months The year 2007 was, after a series average (216 % N). June (102 % N) at the start of the year were relatively of rainfall average or below-aver- and July (98 % N) were average in very warm with the variation from the age years 2003 to 2006, slightly terms of rainfall. In August (90 % N), long-term average: +6.0 °C in January above-average. The annual total October (68 % N), December (79 % N) and +3.9 °C in February. The warmest reached 755 mm on the territory and mainly in April (only 10 % N) month of the year was July with 18.3 °C of the Czech Republic, which is the rainfall did not reach the value of (+1.4 °C above N), June (18.1 °C) and only 81 mm more than the long- the long-term average. The extremely August (17.7 °C) followed. term average. At the same time dry April caused the draught in 2007. the rainfall in Bohemia corre- In the first half of the year the pe- From the aspect of absolute rain- sponded to 113 % of the long- riod with hihgly above-normal temper- fall totals, in 2007 the rainiest month term average, on the territory ature has continued since the second was untraditionally September with of Moravia and Silesia to 108 % half of 2006. January was especially 121 mm. July (87 mm), June (80 mm), of the long-term average. Total exceptional, in the first and the sec- January and May (78 mm) followed. rainfall in Bohemia was 773 mm, ond decade the temperature records On the other hand, April was the dri- in Moravia and Silesia 770 mm. were often beaten. The above-normal est month with only 5 mm of rainfall. temperature continued from the be- There were three months at the During the other months of 2007 the ginning of the year until August, then beginning of 2007 with above-average rainfall totals reached 36 to 73 mm. three colder months with temperature rainfall (January 181 % N, February below the long-term average followed. 117 % N, March 140 % N), mainly rain 1.2 Outflow situation occured. The next months with above- At the same time September was 2007 was overall average or normal rainfall were May (116 % N), 1.5 °C colder than the long-term aver- slightly below-average in terms November (156 % N) a mainly Sep- age. December was normal in terms of outflow.

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