Water Resources Management Issues in the Danube River Basin District—Examples from Serbia

Abstract

This paper aims to present water resources management problems in Serbia and recommend possible solutions. Key issues involve water quality and water quantity. Water quality is endangered by organic pollution from different sources and low degree of waste water treatment. Incomplete exploration of water resources availability as well as their inadequate exploitation are the biggest problems related to water quantity. Other problems involve lack of harmonized legislation, insufficient investments in water resources management, inadequate water price, low level of services, the lack of an effective integral water management system, illegal construction in the areas of water sources and potentially floodplains as well as lack of monitoring. In order to deal with these problems and overcome or mitigate their consequences, complex of measures should be implemented in the frame of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary national and international projects.