The cases for rehabilitation of devastated landscape by People and Water

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The cases for rehabilitation of devastated
landscape by People and Water
High Tatras
Tichý Potok
Horný Hricov
Koice
Michal Kravcík People and Water, Slovakia
www.peopleandwater.sk www.waterparadigm.org E-mai
lludiaavoda_at_ludiaavoda.sk kravcik_at_ludiaavoda.sk
TREBON, June 2009
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B L U E A L T E R N A T I V E - alternatíve
to Tichý Potok water dam
1995
1996
1997
2009
2009
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Fire Waterholding
Water Forest
Flood Waterholding
Water Forest Project Integrated restoration of
the High Tatras National Park ecosystem following
the wind gale of November 2004
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What happened in November, 19th 2004 12.600
hectars of forest was damaged, with risks of
drying up, erosion and loss typical climate
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2nd Phase Building more than 2.000
waterholdings on the 40 ha of Water Forest
(July September 2005)
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3rd Phase Building waterholdings on the 12 ha
of burned area (September October 2005)
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4th Phase Planting new trees at Water Forest
October 2005 - May 2006
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INFRARED PICTURE OF THE WATER FOREST
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August, 4th 2005
September, 28th 2006
June, 15th 2006
July, 14th 2006
Fire waterholdings built at Water Forest,
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Flood protection Waterholding, High Tatras,
Tatranska Lomnica

2005
2006
2008
2007
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Water Forest, October 2009
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Research report

• The environmental variables analyses showed
  increased moisture ecoindex in communities
  colonizing the inundation zones of water-holding
  dykes compared to the parallel communities
  developed outside the dykes. The increase of the
  moisture ecoindex reached the value 0,61 in the
  pentamerous Ellenberg scale, this is an everege
  value of the all current vegetational types.
  With respect to the high number of analysed
  dykes, this value is highly significant. For this
  increase are responsible hygrophilous species
  like species of the genus bog rush (Juncus), but
  the grasses like heath wood-rush (Luzula
  multiflora) or reed bent grass (Calamagrostis
  villosa).
• The favourable state of hydrologically managed
  sites is stressed by biodversity increasing. In
  2007, the investigators recorded within 8
  hydrologically unmanaged sites (400 m2) 22
  species in average, while within two
  hydrologically managed sites the average number
  of species was 27, i. e. 5 species more.

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After heavy rainfall in Tatranska Lomnica, High
Tatras, 1. august 2008
Stream from Water Forest
Stream without Water Forest
Stream without Water Forest
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Botanic Garden Tatranska Lomnica, 2006
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• LEGENDA
• Morské oko - zberné a regulacné jazero (nie je
  nutné)
• Odberný objekt s prívodom
• Odberný objekt s prívodom
• 4a. Zelené Pliesko
• 4b. Skalnaté Pliesko
• trbské Pliesko
• Zelený vodopád
• Skalnatý vodopád
• Vodopád
• Centrálne jazierko
• Mocariská
• VATRA - Vodné atrakcie

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4b
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Water Sources for Botanic Garden T. Lomnica
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2008
2009
2008
2008
2009
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November, 28th 2005
June, 6th 2006
September, 16th 2006
June, 30th 2006
Restoration of water sources in urban zone
Koice People and Water, September 2006
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Hricov Water Ways, October 2008
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Peoples Water University
Typical hydraulic Infrastructure for rainwater
management in villages
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Peoples Water University
Reality
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Peoples Water University
Creation of water sources on the Ski area.
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Energe of Sun

Energy of water

Nature
Soil
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