Everything is connected

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Everything is connected
Project Clean Waters Healthy People

• Challenges and approaches to solutions

Johanna Leutgöb "die umweltberatung"
"eco-counselling"
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Current status
Strengths

• High self sufficiency concerning food
• Neighbourly help
• Good communication in the villages
• Beautiful landscape nature reserves
• Well educated people

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Current Status
Problems and challenges

• Nitrate in drinking water
• Due to that fact health problems (e.g. blue
  babies)
• No sanitary waste disposal(illegal dumping)
• Economic problems(lack of jobs, low family
  income, low municipal budgets)

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Contamination of Drinking Water

• Chemical parameter
• nitrate NO3, nitrite NO2, iron - Fe,.......
• Physical parameter
• ph-value, conductance,....
• Bacteriological parameter
• escherichia coli, coliform germs,...

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Nitrogen-cycle
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Legal requirements

• Water Frame Directive
• protection of surface waters, coastal waters,
  transition waters and groundwater, implementation
  until 2015
• Cross-Compliance (2012) Directive on
  agricultural subsidies proper agriculture
• e.g. no tie-stalls, minimum size for stalls,
  proper fertilization,......
• Landfill Directive
• National Strategy, Waste Management Plan

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Potentials

• Sustainable tourism
• Increase in agricultural production
• Organic farming
• Increase of income in agriculture

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Adequate solutions
Features

• They improve the quality of life of the
  population
• They are based on the status quo
• They need know how of all people involved
• They have to be feasible(step by step, big and
  small steps)
• They are future oriented (e.g. planning systems
  in a way, that they can be extended)
• Legal compliance
• They are sustainable in an economic, ecological
  and social sense

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What does know how mean?

• Decision makers should have a general idea of all
  possible measures
• Assessment and rating of measures
• Technical knowledge for the operation of
  facilities
• Result oriented know how for on-site consulting

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What does feasible mean?

• Financially feasible
• investments (financial support possible most of
  the time, up to 100)
• during operation (no financial support, except in
  farming)
• Socially feasible
• involving the population
• information and education
• allowing for differences in mentality

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Our approach

• Take a look at your region from outside
• We take you for the experts on site
• We found result oriented solutions/models(maybe
  new and unusual for you)
• We present those solutions/models
• Discuss and improve(during the workshops)

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Our Contribution

• View from outside
• Experience in technical implementation
• Experience in awareness-raising and public
  relations
• Background information
• Help to help yourself
• Company independent consultancy
• Recommendations

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What we cannot provide

• ... in the course of this project
• Detailed planning
• Decisions, which solutions you want to implement
• Consultancy concerning financial support and aid
• Support during implementation

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What happened until now?

• Two visits in several villages
• Visits of Gospodorias
• Visits of dumping sites
• Inspecting the composition of waste
• Gathering information on how people live
• Gathering information about the problems in your
  region

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Our summary
Everything is connected

• Agricultural practice
• Water supply and sewage disposal
• Practice of waste disposal

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Everything is connected
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Johanna LeutgöbJohannes Ertl"die
umweltberatung" "eco-counselling" Johanna
LeutgöbTel 43 (01)8033232 - 24Fax 43 (01)
8033232-22johanna.leutgoeb_at_umweltberatung.atJoh
annes ErtlTel 43 (02757) 8520 Fax 43
(02757) 8520 -214johannes.ertl_at_umweltberatung.at
Thank you for your attention!
DI Arnold Kainz Ingenieurbüro für
Landschaftsplanung3912 Grafenschlag
93AustriaTel 43 (0) 664.1836731arnold.kainz_at_
aon.at