17 Update, Conclusions, and Recommendations …
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in the underground. Various climatic scenarios must take into account and formulate strategies for the adaptation to climate change through the introduction
within water management plans of measures.
7. Scientific research can still bring important results in reconsideration of economic activities, although the technological solutions that can be applied immediately, exist and should be introduced without delay, with government support.
8. The role of forests on water resources and of the hydrological regime as well as
the climate provides a powerful mitigation tool for the effects of global climate
change. Cutting the forest to nearly 400,000 ha has caused major imbalances
in ecosystems, changing the drainage of the water on the slopes being the
immediate consequence for floods.
9. The most important climate changes with hydrological impacts detected in the
last half-century (after 1960) are a general warming at annual and seasonal scale
(excepting autumn) and increase of the precipitation amount in autumn and of
the daily maximum rainfall (mainly in summer and autumn). Important changes
also affected the snow-related indices (mean snow depth, number of days with
snow cover and with snowfall, continuous snow cover duration), which had
significant downward trends.
10. The water resources (surface and groundwater) in the management plan of the
Siret, as well as in the other river basins in Romania, are monitored qualitatively
and quantitatively for conservation and protection against pollution and floods.
Following the collection of information, a database is being gathered, and it is
analyzed then after the results are obtained, a series of measures are taken to
improve or eliminate the negative effects.
11. The Romanian catchment of the Upper Tisa River indicate a surplus of water.
The quantitative and qualitative monitoring network is very well developed in
the basin, but not the hydrotechnical facilities, able to intervene in the maximum
discharge phase and in the regularization of the waterflow, which are completely
missing in the Vi¸ seu basin.
12. From the point of view of the water resource necessary for fire extinguishing in the areas with greater fire risk (Small Braila Wetlands) there should be
constructed reservoirs (water basins) from where water for extinguishing vegetation fires is supplied by pumping with individual groups of pumps and portable
electrical generators.
13. The natural particularities of the monitoring sites can greatly impact the results
of measurements. The evolution of air parameters can explain the evolution of
the water parameters in natural areas, but it is only partly useful in areas with
intense human activity, such as the areas where dams and hydroelectric plants
exist.
14. The global climatic changes affect also Romania. For the past 25 years, drought
periods are longer and more severe, though, the mean amount of precipitations
has also increased. Unfortunately, heavy rains (100–300 mm/24 h) causing large
amounts of water within a short time span have become more frequent and more
significant; they lead inevitably, to catastrophic floods.
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in the underground. Various climatic scenarios must take into account and formulate strategies for the adaptation to climate change through the introduction
within water management plans of measures.
7. Scientific research can still bring important results in reconsideration of economic activities, although the technological solutions that can be applied immediately, exist and should be introduced without delay, with government support.
8. The role of forests on water resources and of the hydrological regime as well as
the climate provides a powerful mitigation tool for the effects of global climate
change. Cutting the forest to nearly 400,000 ha has caused major imbalances
in ecosystems, changing the drainage of the water on the slopes being the
immediate consequence for floods.
9. The most important climate changes with hydrological impacts detected in the
last half-century (after 1960) are a general warming at annual and seasonal scale
(excepting autumn) and increase of the precipitation amount in autumn and of
the daily maximum rainfall (mainly in summer and autumn). Important changes
also affected the snow-related indices (mean snow depth, number of days with
snow cover and with snowfall, continuous snow cover duration), which had
significant downward trends.
10. The water resources (surface and groundwater) in the management plan of the
Siret, as well as in the other river basins in Romania, are monitored qualitatively
and quantitatively for conservation and protection against pollution and floods.
Following the collection of information, a database is being gathered, and it is
analyzed then after the results are obtained, a series of measures are taken to
improve or eliminate the negative effects.
11. The Romanian catchment of the Upper Tisa River indicate a surplus of water.
The quantitative and qualitative monitoring network is very well developed in
the basin, but not the hydrotechnical facilities, able to intervene in the maximum
discharge phase and in the regularization of the waterflow, which are completely
missing in the Vi¸ seu basin.
12. From the point of view of the water resource necessary for fire extinguishing in the areas with greater fire risk (Small Braila Wetlands) there should be
constructed reservoirs (water basins) from where water for extinguishing vegetation fires is supplied by pumping with individual groups of pumps and portable
electrical generators.
13. The natural particularities of the monitoring sites can greatly impact the results
of measurements. The evolution of air parameters can explain the evolution of
the water parameters in natural areas, but it is only partly useful in areas with
intense human activity, such as the areas where dams and hydroelectric plants
exist.
14. The global climatic changes affect also Romania. For the past 25 years, drought
periods are longer and more severe, though, the mean amount of precipitations
has also increased. Unfortunately, heavy rains (100–300 mm/24 h) causing large
amounts of water within a short time span have become more frequent and more
significant; they lead inevitably, to catastrophic floods.