DANUBE

Danube River Basin - (map)

• Second longest river in Europe:
  • 2 840 km long;
  • Water catchment area = 817 000 km2
    
• Springs from the Black Forest Mountains and flows into the Black Sea
  
• Arises from the union of three sources: BREG, BRIGACH, DONAU QUELLE and flows into the Sea through the three branches: CHILIA, SULINA, SF. GHEORGHE, forming the Danube Delta
  
• The River crosses:
  
  • 10 countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine
  • 4 capital cities: Viena, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrad
• Distribution of water discharge on the three branches:
  Chilia 58%, Sulina 19%, Sf. Gheorghe 23%
  
• The Danube Delta is situated on both Romanian and Ukrainian territory:
  
• Total surface: 4 178 km2 from which:
  
  • 82% - 3 446 km2 in Romania
  • 18% - 732 km2 in Ukraine

ICPDR – The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River www.icpdr.org

The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) works to ensure the sustainable and equitable use of waters and freshwater resources in the Danube River Basin.
The work of the ICPDR is based on the Danube River Protection Convention, the major legal instrument for cooperation and transboundary water management in the Danube River Basin.

Romania will take over the Presidency of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) for the year 2007. State Secretary of Environment and Water Management of Romania, Lucia Varga, will serve as President during 2007 and will guide the activities of ICPDR, which was set up to coordinate the protection and improvement of the Danube and its tributaries.

The ICPDR Presidency rotates annually among the Contracting Parties of the Danube River Protection Convention. Romania will be succeeded by Serbia in 2008.

More information: www.icpdr.org