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1-2. füzet - Orlóci István: A közösségi vízgazdálkodás felé

62 Orlóci István Várallyay Gy.: A talaj vízgazdálkodása. Doktori értekezés, MTA Budapest, 1987. Várallyay Gy.: A talajfejlődés főbb sajátosságai a magyar Alföldön. Hidrológiai Közlöny. 1993. 1. World Bank: Environment working papers on Environmental Economics and Valuation in Decission Making. 1992. Zólyomi В.: Természetes növénytakaró a Tiszafüredi Öntözőrendszer területén. Öntözésügyi Közlemények. 1947. Zólyomi В.: Magyarország növénytakarójának fejlődéstörténete az utolsó jégkorszaktól. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1952. * * * Towards a water management that complies with regulations of the European Community by István ORLÓCI civil engineer There are two forces, which form the water management that could be termed as "community water management". One of these is the Water Framework Directive of the EU, and the other one is the requesting of public participation in the relevant decisions. In Hungary the ecological aspects and the principle of public participation were first incorporated into the new state-management of rivers (Table I), which was launched in the year 2000. The sustainability of Hungarians, which formed the state more than thousand years ago and manage the resources of this land, depends primarily on the management of the rivers and their flood-plains (Figure 9) in compliance with a multi-objective approach (Table II). In the great lowlands of the country agriculture, relying on the regulation of the rivers, formed the basis of economic development and the growth of the population (Figure 1). In the multi-coloured Europe the environmental protection policy of the Community shows a new direction for the development of water management. The basis of the regulation is the sustainable development and of the three piers of this latter they put the main emphasis on the protection of natural habitats, on achieving the "good state" of waters. In Hungary we have formulated the requirements of updating water management (as early as in the 1980-ies) in compliance with the integrated management of natural resources. Following this principle we selected a system of characters of social importance (as given in table III) as the objective of river management. There is a seemingly simple condition of complying with the requirements of sustainable development. One shall set the new criteria of the relevant engineering works, which expresses a joint and harmonised consideration of economic, social and ecological interests. These cannot be replaced by the existing or planned legal tools, which concerned the protection and revitalisation of the natural ecosystems. The correct method of regulating the water budget and water transfer is the one, which promotes the renewal processes of the natural habitats and enables the forming communities of species that are at least equivalent in value with the