The territory of Bulgaria is 110 912 square kilometres. The country is characterized by rich diversity in morphological, geological, geomorphological, hydro-climatic and soil-biogenic aspect. The relief of the country is deeply indented in a vertical direction. There are six autonomous zones (lowland, plain, hill, low mountain, middle mountain and high mountain). Over two thirds of the country’s territory is situated in the zones of up to 600 metres above the sea level, i.e., predominant are plains and hilly lands. The climate of the country is mostly defined by its geographical position in the southern part of the temperate continental climatic zone and occupies a transitory position to the Mediterranean climate. The predominant plants are of the forest – steppe type. In the north and northeast, more common is the steppe vegetation and in the south – the forest plants. Forests occupy approximately 30 % of the country’s territory, where ¾ of them are deciduous forests.
New WWF Study on the potential of floodplain protection and restoration
to support flood risk mitigation for people living along the Danube and its major tributaries reviews the recent 2006 flood disasters along the Danube and selected and to produce a first overview about the physical restoration potential in four case studies along the Lower Danube Green Corridor (LDGC).
Overview of Water Resources
The hydro-geographic network of the country is rather complex and in most of the regions –
quite dense, without very big rivers with the exception of the River Danube forming the
northern border. These peculiarities are due to the fact that the country has a small territory, is located near sea basins (the Black Sea to the east and the Aegean Sea to the south), it has a transitional continental climate and deeply indented relief. On average the perennial flow is estimated at about 19-20 billion cubic metres and per a secured year at 75 % or about 14 billion cubic metres.
Main objective: Institutional strengthening and capacity building of the Basin Directorate for Water Management in the East Aegean Region with main office in the town of Plovdiv, for the implementation of its functions concerning the transboundary cooperation and management of the transboundary river basins with the Republic of Greece in accordance with the requirements of the European Water Framework Directive – the first step – identifying, integrated management and monitoring of the transboundary groundwater bodies.
Main objective: Institutional strengthening and capacity building of the Basin Directorate for Water Management in the East Aegean Region with Plovdiv as a centre, in accordance with the requirements under Article 3 of Directive 2000/60/EC for coordination of the requirements for environmental objectives established under Article 4 of the Directive for international river basin districts and the Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes; as well as for strengthening the bilateral cooperation for the management of the cross-border river basins with the Republic of Turkey and as a first step – developing a pilot project for integrated management of the Tundzha River international basin.
The Assessment of Development Results (ADR) is an independent evaluation that aims to capture and demonstrate evaluative evidence of UNDP’s contributions to development results at the country level.
The overall goal of the project was to determine how participatory benchmarking workshops could be used to create local ownership of the MDGs by translating them into a local context.
The report aims to summarize key issues and strategic directions for improved WRM at the national and transboundary levels for the South Eastern Europe (SEE) region.
