NERETVA AND TREBIŠNJICA MANAGEMENT PROJECT (NTMP)

Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Project Implementation

Teams

Introduction of the Project

• NTMP is a regional cooperation project - Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Transboundary river basin on the territory of:• Republic of Croatia

• Dubrovnik-Neretva County and• Split-Dalmatia County

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H)• Federation of BiH (FB&H)

• Herzegovina-Neretva County / Western Herzegovina County

• Herzeg-Bosnia County• Republika Srpska (RS)

• Trebinje Region• The Neretva is:

• the longest river of the Adriatic catchment area (215 km long, with only 22 km in Croatia)

• the water –richest tributary of the Adriatic Sea on the territory of these two countries

• complex karst hydrography makes it difficult to define the exact boundaries of the catchment area (around 10,500 km2)

• the water regime of the Neretva River basin has been significantly modified by the construction of hydropower facilities in the upper and middle sections of the Neretva River and on the Trebišnjica River with 7 reservoirs built from 1954 to 1985.

Project Objectives & Outcomes• The development and general environmental objective of the project is to provide

mechanisms for the efficient and equitable water allocation among • the users of the Neretva and Trebišnjica River Basin at the trans-boundary level, and • for enhancing the basin ecosystems and biodiversity through improved water resource

management.

Results in Stress Reduction

Results in Environmental Status• Improved water resource management

and biodiversity conservation have been identified by both countries as key environmental issues in their National Environmental Action Plans (NEAPs approwed in 2003 in BH and in Croatia in 2001). The two National Action Plans (NAPs) for SAP MED implementation that were prepared by BiH and Croatia in 2005 are concentrated on the coastal areas and define the priority pollution reduction investments, focusing on nutrients and urban wastewater throughout the NTRB. NEAPs were approved in BiH in 2003 and in Croatia in 2001.

• B&H and Croatia have jointly identified protection of the Neretva Delta and improved transboundary and river-basin-level management as priority actions through the Regional Environmental Reconstruction Program (RERP) of the Southeast Europe (SEE) Stability Pact. The project will pilot a scheme to mitigate saltwater intrusion into the Neretva Delta and reduce pollutants from agriculture into the Neretva River.

INDICATOR#1 - Improved water quality status(achievement, maintenance or improvement of existing to at least good status in compliance with the requirements stated in Regulation on water quality standard (Official Gazette 89/10)

River Basins Management Plan (draft) for rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters in the Neretva

& Trebišnjica Basin.

Projects:Management plan for the Hutovo blato Nature Park

Flora and Fauna Museum in TrebinjeVjetrenica Tourist Centre

Launching the “Naša Neretva” newsletterImproved management of ecological subsystems –

Baćina LakesManagement plan for protected areas in CroatiaDELT

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Process Results

Conclusion