Convergence with EU Water Quality Standards

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Project ID
Project Title	Support to Convergence with EU Water Quality Standards in Moldova
Type
Focus Areas
Geographic Scope	Moldova
Lead Organization(s)	UNDP, OECD
Project Partners	OECD, REC
Financing
Timeframe	2005-2007
Status	Proposal in Finalization Draft
Project website(s)
Contacts	Margareta Petrusevschi, Programme Anayst, UNDP Moldova 131, 31 August 1989 str., Chisinau, Moldova 373 22 22 0045/ 41 mailto:[email protected]; http://www.un.md

1 Description
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3 Achievements: Results and Impact
4 Lessons for Replication
5 References
6 See Also
7 External Resources
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Description

Analysis of currently used water quality standards system and setting up of new standards, consistent with the EU requirements; Building capacity for legal analysis and reform; creation of the adequate legal and institutional framework; legal enforcement; improved acces to information; public awareness building; consolidation of national capacity for impact assessment and water quality monitoring and its harmonization with the neighboring countries Romania and Ukraine. Piloting of demonstrational components on water quality monitoring.

The currently used system of WQS, based on an inadequate classification of water bodies, was inherited from the former USSR and imposes technical and economically unrealistic requirements, which actually creates serious barriers for economic development and poverty reduction. There is a lack of comprehensive approach to water quality management. Neighborhood with Romania, an EU accession country, determines the stringent necessity for Moldova to adjust its WQS system but the country has limited resources to respond to this challenge.