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and floods. Meteorology, climatology and hydrology in particular provide not only
the marginal conditions but also direct input values into water management. For
a long time, here in Romania and abroad, water management was determined based
on the sources of water, the renewability of which was considered as a stationary
process, whose central values and variance did not change over time. In considering
of climate change, a phenomenon we are already confronting and which is primarily
expressed in meteorological, climatological and hydrological processes, it is shown
that these processes are non-stationary. This means that we identify trends in timerelated climatic as well as in hydrological orders. Water resources may decrease or
increase depending on the development of climate elements. In the past we were able
to resolve annual or perennial fluctuations of available water sources either by using
economic instruments or by creating water reserves in our conditions, with annual
regulation.
This conclusion chapter presents a summary of the essential findings and conclusions of the studies on the hydrological hazards, water quality, and water quantity
mainly from hydrological point of view completed by case studies. A set of recommendations extracted from all contributions are presented to help academicians,
researchers, practitioners and decision makers to go forward towards reasonable and
sustainable management of water resources in Romania.
17.2 Update
Assessing water resource management in a country is a problem that can be analyzed in many ways. First of all, we must take into account the social and economic
development of the country in the last decades. In the case of Romania, the changes
since 1990, through the post-communist period, have had an exponential impact on
the ways of monitoring, evaluation and management of water resources. Moreover,
by joining the European Union (starting with 2007), but also the pre-existing actions,
required that the systems for the implementation of the water resource management
plans, applied at the level of the administrative and territorial unit, be adapted to the
new European requirements.
The transposition of the European Water Frameworks Directive (2000/60/EC for
water resources management and 2007/60/EC for reducing the impact of hydrological risks associated with the maximum leakage) into national legislation has allowed
a series of reassessments of monitoring, evaluation, analysis and resource management of water across the country [35, 36]. This was highlighted in this volume by
Romanescu et al. and Paveluc et al. in the chapters related to Implementation of
EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/CE) in Romania-European Qualitative
Requirements and Monitoring and management of water in the Siret River Basin
(Romania). Adopting European legislation on how to manage water resources has
solved many problems. The first measure focused on how to report the distribution
and the volume of water resources by replacing the administrative and territorial units
(used in the communist period) with the natural aquatic units (drainage basins, under-
I. Minea et al.
and floods. Meteorology, climatology and hydrology in particular provide not only
the marginal conditions but also direct input values into water management. For
a long time, here in Romania and abroad, water management was determined based
on the sources of water, the renewability of which was considered as a stationary
process, whose central values and variance did not change over time. In considering
of climate change, a phenomenon we are already confronting and which is primarily
expressed in meteorological, climatological and hydrological processes, it is shown
that these processes are non-stationary. This means that we identify trends in timerelated climatic as well as in hydrological orders. Water resources may decrease or
increase depending on the development of climate elements. In the past we were able
to resolve annual or perennial fluctuations of available water sources either by using
economic instruments or by creating water reserves in our conditions, with annual
regulation.
This conclusion chapter presents a summary of the essential findings and conclusions of the studies on the hydrological hazards, water quality, and water quantity
mainly from hydrological point of view completed by case studies. A set of recommendations extracted from all contributions are presented to help academicians,
researchers, practitioners and decision makers to go forward towards reasonable and
sustainable management of water resources in Romania.
17.2 Update
Assessing water resource management in a country is a problem that can be analyzed in many ways. First of all, we must take into account the social and economic
development of the country in the last decades. In the case of Romania, the changes
since 1990, through the post-communist period, have had an exponential impact on
the ways of monitoring, evaluation and management of water resources. Moreover,
by joining the European Union (starting with 2007), but also the pre-existing actions,
required that the systems for the implementation of the water resource management
plans, applied at the level of the administrative and territorial unit, be adapted to the
new European requirements.
The transposition of the European Water Frameworks Directive (2000/60/EC for
water resources management and 2007/60/EC for reducing the impact of hydrological risks associated with the maximum leakage) into national legislation has allowed
a series of reassessments of monitoring, evaluation, analysis and resource management of water across the country [35, 36]. This was highlighted in this volume by
Romanescu et al. and Paveluc et al. in the chapters related to Implementation of
EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/CE) in Romania-European Qualitative
Requirements and Monitoring and management of water in the Siret River Basin
(Romania). Adopting European legislation on how to manage water resources has
solved many problems. The first measure focused on how to report the distribution
and the volume of water resources by replacing the administrative and territorial units
(used in the communist period) with the natural aquatic units (drainage basins, under-