... Community prepardness and public participation for flas

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Presentation of recent developments in disaster
risk reduction in Poland

• Maciej Maciejewski
• Tomasz Walczykiewicz
• Bonn, 19th and 20th of November

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Presentation of recent developments in disaster
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• What has been done in Poland since our last
  meeting in Cracow?
• On 14th of June 2007 hydro-meteorological service
  in branch office of IMGW in Cracow organized
  The avalanche seminar civil safety in the
  mountains
• Main inputs
• -new activities of IMGW,
• -discussion on hydro-meteorological conditions
  and snow cover conditions in winter season
  2006/2007,
• -discussion on avalanches occured in winter
  season 2006/2007
• -discussion on the new Council of the Minsters
  order regarding safty conditions in the
  mountains,
• - organization of the avalanche service in IMGW.

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• 2. XII Dam Monitoring International Conference
• on 19 - 22 June 2007
• HAZARD AND DAMS SAFETY IN POLAND
• present dams safety regulations and necessary
  modifications
• observations and investigations
• evaluations of dam technical state and safety
• hazard behind of small water reservoirs
• creating of the computer-based special
  information system for hydrotechnical structures
• PROBLEMS OF THE FLOOD PROTECTION
• small water retention and the flood protection
• technical state and safety of embankments in
  Poland
• functioning of water reservoirs and
  hydrotechnical structures during flood time
• warning systems (cooperation with the local
  authority and crisis teams etc.)
• possibility increase of the hazard of the
  environmental contamination in domestic range and
  safety activities)

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• WATER POWER ENGINEERING
• influence of the water-power work regime on the
  safety and river environment
• modernization and major repair of water-power
  plants
• perspectives and development possibilities of the
  water power development
• THE WET WASTE MATERIALS STORAGE YARDS
• the characteristics of wet storage yards in
  Poland
• the control of the safety
• perspectives (wet storage yards location

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Presentation of recent developments in disaster
risk reduction in PolandCzorsztynskie Lake
artificial reservoir photograph by Tomasz
Walczykiewicz
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Presentation of recent developments in disaster
risk reduction in Poland

• 3. XVII Water Management School organize under
  umbrella of The Polish Academy of Science on
  12-14 of September 2007
• Subject Water - a barier of land use
  development in Poland

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• 4. VIII Scholl on Natural disasters organized on
  15-17 of October
• Subject Impact of the climate change on
  environment, economy and society (changes,
  impacts, ways of limitation, proposals for
  science, engineering in practice and economy
  planning)

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• 5. On 24th of October IMGW organized conference
  The extreme hydro-meteorological phenomena and
  natural risks in Poland

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Presentation of recent developments in disaster
risk reduction in Poland conference The extreme
hydro-meteorological phenomena and natural risks
in Polandphotograph by Katarzyna Bieniek
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Presentation of recent developments in disaster
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• 6. Workshop Community prepardness and public
  participation for flash flood management in
  Europe organized on 29-30 of October in Cracow
• This workshop was organized by WMO and Global
  Water Partnership for Central and East Europe
• It was summary of activities within the
  Associated Programme of Flash Flood Management
  adminstered by WMO
• (50 participants from Japan, Switzerland,
  France, and Poland, director of hydrological and
  water resources department-Avinash Tyagi and
  chief of the project Joachin Saalmueller, polish
  officials).

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Presentation of recent developments in disaster
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• Thank you for your attention