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Legislative framework for drinking water (re)sources monitoring in the Adriatic region

The Strategic project Networking for Drinking Water Supply in Adriatic Region (acronym DRINKADRIA) co-financed by the European Union through the program IPA Adriatic CBC 2007–2013 evaluated various aspects for cross-border drinking water resources management and protection in the Adriatic region, e.g., climate and land use change impact, monitoring and protection legal and policy framework, increased demand during touristic season, etc. Seventeen partner institutions from eight countries across the Adriatic region (Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Greece) participated in project implementation. Due to complexity of cross–border drinking water (re)sources management the legal framework pertaining to drinking water sources monitoring at national and regional level is analysed based on data and information provided by partners. All legal acts and descriptions in English are uploaded on the DRINKADRIA project shared platform. This paper provides legal framework evaluation synopsis, underline the identified gaps, and provide comparison of monitoring practices with respect to cross- border drinking water sources in the Adriatic region. Given the differences in national legal framework it is concluded that the protocol for cross-border monitoring of water resources used for human consumption should be defined on bilateral (trilateral) level among countries instead as a unified protocol for the whole Adriatic area. However, the basic framework and common structure of the protocol is proposed.

legal framework, drinking water resources management, cross-border, transboundary, Adriatic region

Rad je prezentiran na skupu 10th Word Congress on Water Resources and Environment" (EWRA2017 - Issue IV).