“WWF - 2006 Floods in the Danube River Basin”

Type of Report :

Working Paper

Title :

2006 Floods in the Danube River Basin

Author :

WWF

Contact:

• Dr. Christine Bratrich – Freshwater Team Leader, WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme, Tel: +43 1 524 54 70-19, email: [email protected]
• Sergiy Moroz – WWF Global Freshwater Programme/WWF European Policy Office (EPO), 1040 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 7400923, e-mail: [email protected]

Year Published :

2006

URL :

http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=74080

Description :

According to this WWF study on the recent Lower Danube floods in spring 2006, the flood level would have been lowered by 0.3-0.5 meters if certain floodplain areas had been restored. Four case studies in Romania show that restoring approximately 98,000 ha of floodplain areas would increase flood retention capacity to 1.6 billion m3, eight times more than the