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INTRODUCTION
This project was implemented under the grant #10034105 147 of the International Development Research Centre of Ottawa (IDRC) and funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
The project was developed within the framework of IDRC’s Environmental Management Development Program, Dnipro Basin in Russian part (EMDDBR). The project’s principal goal was to use widely available geographical information system (GIS) products such as ARC/INFO and ArcView to create a database of quantitative and qualitative indicators of water quality in Russia’s Dnipro basin, using existing information sources and with a capability of communication with similar Dnipro basin management databases in Belarus and Ukraine.
The database uses the following information sources:
- Database of the State Water Cadastre;
- Russian Register of Waterworks;
- Information from territorial units of Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources, State Hydrometeorology Committee and Ministry of Health.
The database contains the following main data on Russia’s Dnipro basin:
- Affixment of monitoring and sampling sites;
- Water use and discharge by sub-basins and regions;
- Quantitative and qualitative descriptions of water bodies;
- Information about protected natural territories;
- Information about areas with radioactive pollution and their descriptions grouped by vulnerability to pollution;
- Characteristics of channel processes;
- Administrative boundaries of regions and rayons, drainage network, etc.
This report provides information about the database’s individual parts, including graphic information formats and general requirements to hardware and system and dedicated software. It gives examples of the system’s functioning when processing of individual requests and creating and printing reports, as well as fragments of pages of the DnepRos web site based on the database. The report contains user advice, shows how adjusted data are prepares and transferred to the international environmental Dnipro basin database in Kyiv, lists hardware and software purchased and delivered to Russia’s Dnipro basin regions and the central network node under the project, and describes information coordination workshops conducted for DnepRos administrators.
