Chapter 17
Update, Conclusions,
and Recommendations for “Water
Resources Management in Romania”
Ionut Minea, Abdelazim M. Negm and Martina Zele ˇ
náková
Abstract This chapter highlights the update of the topic, main conclusions, and
recommendations of the chapters presented in the book. Therefore, this chapter contains information on water resources management in Romania in the period of climate
change. It focuses on hydrological extremes—droughts and flood—its assessment
and protection, water quality in Romania and it is devoted to sustainable management of water resources. A set of recommendations for future research is pointed out
to direct the future research towards sustainability of water resources management
which is one of the strategic themes of the Romania.
Keywords Romania · Water resources management · Water quality · Climate
change · Droughts · Floods · Hydrological extremes
17.1 Introduction
Water management, like the power industry, is not a sector per se, but it does secure
access to water for all other sectors and for society as a whole according to need.
However, unlike energy there are no alternative sources of water. And that is why
for several years now we have considered water to be a strategic raw material. In
addition to water provision, water management has another no less important task—
protection from the undesired effects of hydrological extremes, such as drought
I. Minea
Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”,
University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
e-mail: ionutminea1979@yahoo.com
A. M. Negm (B)
Water and Water Structures Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University,
Zagazig 44519, Egypt
e-mail: Amnegm@zu.edu.eg
M. Zeleˇ náková
Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University in
Košice, Košice, Slovakia
e-mail: martina.zelenakova@tuke.sk
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22320-5_17
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Update, Conclusions,
and Recommendations for “Water
Resources Management in Romania”
Ionut Minea, Abdelazim M. Negm and Martina Zele ˇ
náková
Abstract This chapter highlights the update of the topic, main conclusions, and
recommendations of the chapters presented in the book. Therefore, this chapter contains information on water resources management in Romania in the period of climate
change. It focuses on hydrological extremes—droughts and flood—its assessment
and protection, water quality in Romania and it is devoted to sustainable management of water resources. A set of recommendations for future research is pointed out
to direct the future research towards sustainability of water resources management
which is one of the strategic themes of the Romania.
Keywords Romania · Water resources management · Water quality · Climate
change · Droughts · Floods · Hydrological extremes
17.1 Introduction
Water management, like the power industry, is not a sector per se, but it does secure
access to water for all other sectors and for society as a whole according to need.
However, unlike energy there are no alternative sources of water. And that is why
for several years now we have considered water to be a strategic raw material. In
addition to water provision, water management has another no less important task—
protection from the undesired effects of hydrological extremes, such as drought
I. Minea
Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”,
University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
e-mail: ionutminea1979@yahoo.com
A. M. Negm (B)
Water and Water Structures Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University,
Zagazig 44519, Egypt
e-mail: Amnegm@zu.edu.eg
M. Zeleˇ náková
Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University in
Košice, Košice, Slovakia
e-mail: martina.zelenakova@tuke.sk
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
A. M. Negm et al. (eds.), Water Resources Management in Romania, Springer Water,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22320-5_17
579