MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC REPORT ON WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2012 As of 31 December 2012 Report on Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2012 As of 31 December 2012 Te x t Department of State Administration of Water Management and River Basins Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic Department of Water Protection Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic Editor-in-Chief Daniel Pokorný Eva Rolečková Jana Janková Jan Rauscher Production and Print Printer Kleinwächter Not for sale ISBN 978-80-7434-054-3 Each chapter is introduced with a picture from the children´s competition for pupils at primary and lower secondary school level on the topic of „on the same wave“, organized as part of the World Water Day 2013 celebration. Published by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic Těšnov 17, 117 05 Prague 1, Czech Republic Internet: www.eagri.cz, e-mail: [email protected] Prague 2013 Report on Water Management in the Czech Republic As of 31 December 2012 2012 Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic Report on Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2012 Contents 1. Hydrological balance 5 1.1 Temperature and precipitation 5 1.2 Runoff 7 1.3 Groundwater regime 7 2. Flood situations 9 2.1 Flood courses 9 2.2 Remedying flood damages 10 2.3 Remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the extraordinary flood 10 3. Quality of surface waters and groundwaters 13 3.1 Surface water quality 13 3.2 Groundwater quality 20 4. Water use 25 4.1 Surface water abstractions 25 4.2 Groundwater abstractions 26 4.3 Waste water discharges 28 5. Sources of pollution 31 5.1 Point sources of pollution 31 5.2 Diffuse sources of pollution 33 5.3 Accidental pollution 33 6. Watercourse administration 35 6.1 Professional administration of watercourses 35 6.2 River Boards, state enterprises 36 6.3 Agricultural Water Management Administration 42 6.4 Forests of the Czech Republic, s. e. 44 6.5 Waterways 47 7. Public water supply and sewerage systems 49 7.1 Drinking water supply 49 7.2 Discharge and treatment of municipal waste waters 51 7.3 Development of water and sewerage charges 53 8. Fisheries 55 8.1 Fisheries in the year 2012 55 8.2 Changes in the status of the fishpond system 57 9. State financial support for water management 59 9.1 Ministry of Agriculture 59 9.2 Ministry of the Environment 64 9.3 The State Environmental Fund 65 9.4 Financial support from international cooperation and the EU 67 2 Contents 10. Legislative measures 71 10.1 Water Act and implementing regulations 71 10.2 Act on Public Water Supply Systems and Sewerage Systems and implementing regulations 72 10.3 Audits of the execution of state administration in the field of water management and water protection 72 11. Priority tasks, programmes and key documents in water management 75 11.1 Planning in the field of waters 75 11.2 Development plans for water supply and sewerage systems 75 11.3 Programmes and measures to reduce surface water pollution 76 11.4 Czech Republic´s reporting to the EU 77 12. International cooperation in the field of water protection 79 12.1 Cooperation within UN ECE 79 International cooperation in the field of water protection in the integrated Elbe River, 12.2 80 Danube River and Oder River Basins 12.3 International cooperation on transboundary waters 81 13. Research and development in the competence of the Ministry of Agriculture 85 14. Implementation of programmes of measures adopted by river basin management plans in 2009 89 14.1 Description of the adopted river basin management plans 89 Report to the European Commission on the progress made in the implementation of the planned 14.2 89 programme of measures Implementation of the programme of measures adopted by the Main River Basin Management Plan 14.3 90 of the Czech Republic 14.4 Implementation of the programme of measures adopted by the River Basin District Management Plans 95 List of acronyms in text 131 Important contacts in water management 132 3 Report on Water Management in the Czech Republic in 2012 A lakelet – 1st class, Závodu míru primary school, Pardubice, Pardubický kraj region 4 Hydrological balance 1. Hydrological balance 1.1 Temperature and precipitation the wettest (199% of the average) month of the year. More precipitation in average fell only in July and then the same amount In terms of temperature, the year 2012 with the mean air in June. The smallest precipitation amounts were recorded in the temperature of 8.3 °C showed the average. It was only by 0.3 °C period from February to May. In February, it was 35 mm (91% of colder than the previous year and the temperature variation the average), in March 15 mm (38% of the average), in April 39 mm of 0.9 °C from the average N1961-90 represented only the next (82% of the average) and in May 48 mm (65% of the average). Very positive annual variaton in a row. In the last 25 years there dry March and dry May were relatively the driest months of the have been only three years (2010, 1996 and 1991), which year. The smallest precipitation amounts, approx. 5 mm (20% of showed the mean temperature below the average. the average), were recorded in March mainly in southern Moravia, but also in central and southwest Bohemia (approx. 13 mm), which Winter season 2011/2012 as a whole with the temperature of -1.2 °C represented only a third of the usual amount. March was the was slightly above the average, mainly due to warm December (2.9 driest spring month in the Czech Republic over the last 50 years, °C above the average) and January (2.6 °C above the average). These similarly to March 2003 with the same precipitation deficit. Also in two months with above-average temperatures were followed, on May there was least rain in southern Moravia (approx. 50% of the the contrary, by very cold February with the mean temperature average) and a similar deficit was recorded in this month also in the of -5.2 °C (4.1 °C below the average), which was also the coldest Liberec and Moravia-Silesia regions. month of the year and over the last 39 years in the Czech Republic it was the third coldest February after February 1985 (-5.6 °C) and The turn of May and June due to precipitation deficit in most of February 1986 (-7.4 °C). Spring season, similarly to the last year, the river basins was also the poorest in terms of flow, or as the showed above-average temperatures with the mean temperature second least watery period of the year (after the turn of August of 9.3 °C (i.e. 2 °C above the average). Besides the average April, this and September in the basins of Moravian watercourses), with the was influenced by warm March (2.7 °C above the average) and also main river flows having decreased to 30% mQ (long-term average May (2.1 °C above the average). During the summer months, the monthly flows). During the warm summer months, rainfall amounts temperature again mostly showed values above the average. The were again mostly near the average. In June, average precipitation mean summer temperature of 17.8 °C was, mainly due to warmer amount reached 84 mm (100% of the average), with rainfall by July, even slightly higher than in 2011 (17.1 °C). The highest values approx. 20% of the average richer in Moravia than in Bohemia, of the mean daily air temperature were reached at the turn of June and in overall wet July with 114 mm (144% of the average), on and July and then again at the beginning of the second half of the contrary, significantly more rainfall (by approx. 60% of the August. The highest mean monthly temperature of 18.2 °C in 2012 average) was recorded in Bohemia, compared to Moravia. Similarly, was recorded both in July and August, having exceeded the average this was also in August (76 mm, 97% of the average), with Bohemia by 1.3 and by 1.8 °C, respectively. Growing season months, similarly having rainfall greater by approx. 30% of the average, compared to the year 2011, mostly showed above-average temperatures and to Moravia. After average September (49 mm, 94% of the average), so the mean temperature of 14.9 °C of the growing season again slight precipitation deficit in the east of the country failed to be reached the value of 1.4 °C above the long-term average. During compensated even by more abundant rainfall in the second half of autumn, months with temperatures ranging around the average October. Wet October with 64 mm (134% of the average) showed with small variations prevailed. A more significant temperature average precipitation in Bohemia, but above-average precipitation variation (2.2 °C above the average) was showed only by warm (more by 70% of the average) in Moravia. In the last months of the November with the mean temperature of 4.9 °C and the year was year, November (39 mm, 80% of the average) and December (56 closed by December with temperatures ranging again around the mm, 116% of the average), there was again more precipitation in average, with the mean temperature of -1.4 °C. Bohemia, compared to Moravia (by approx.