Work under this Project was performed as a part of implementation of the programme “Dnipro Basin Environmental Management Development in Russia” under the agreement between the International Development Research Centre (Canada) and the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia in accordance with project proposals approved by Programme management. The project proposals were developed by Russian experts and sought to strengthen the capacity of water management and environmental protection agencies to develop communication support software and hardware.

The work used the grant No. 10033105 097 from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

The project’s objective was to create a computer network comprising 7 nodes in:

- Russian Dnipro Basin Information Center in Moscow under the State Unitary Enterprise “Register and Cadastre Center” of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation;
- Territorial units of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia in the six Dnipro basin oblasts, where natural resources and environmental protection data are generated.

This report describes project results, including the completing and delivery of software and hardware complexes.

This report includes documents determining the basic computer network’s composition and structure, information exchange scheme and communication protocols for different operating modes, lists of hardware and software of the network’s nodes, and documents relating to the creation of the network’s central and territorial nodes.

RDBIC - Russian Dnipro Basin Information Center

BIC - Byelorussian Information Center

UIC - Ukrainian Information Center

SHC -  software and hardware complex

TEDB - Transnational Environmental Database

MNR  - Ministry of Natural Resources

DBC -  Dnipro Basin Council

IMC - Interministry Committee

DB -  database



Russian

PMC -  Programme Management Committee, Dnipro Basin Environmental Management Development in Russia

BWM -  basin water management

SWC - State Water Cadastre

RDWR -  Regional Department of Water Resources

MPC -  maximum permissible concentration

The organizational form of creating the computer network includes the creation of:

- Russian Dnipro Basin Information Center (RDBIC) based on the Register and Cadastre Center (managing organization) and joint-stock company “VODNIIINFORMPROEKT” (material and technical basis);
- 6 territorial information nodes based on territorial units of Russia’s MNR in the country’s Dnipro basin oblasts – Smolensk, Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Orel and Belgorod.

The computer network's organization and equipment are defined in the Russian Dnipro Basin Information Center Creation Protocol, VODNIIINFORMPROEKT’s SHC acceptance report and invoices for SHC handing over to territorial units of Russia’s MNR.

Information about the recipients of software and hardware for the computer network's nodes is summarized in Table 1.1.

In order to establish a legal guarantee that the software and hardware complexes handed over to the territorial units for creating computer network nodes would be used as intended, as required in Clause 5.2(f) of the project contract (grant No. 10033105 097), the managing organization delivered the software and hardware complexes under free use agreements in accordance with Article 689 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (RFCC).

The handing over and acceptance of the software and hardware complexes are confirmed by invoices (attached).

All hardware was individually tested and assembled and undergone assembly testing. The hardware was handed over sealed after delivery trials with a warranty for the duration of the UNDP-GEF Programme.

Table 1.1. Hardware and software recipients under the project

The general Russian Dnipro basin management scheme is shown on Fig. 3.1.

The computer network created under this project ensures the collection of coordinated data from information nodes and their presentation to RDBIC, as well as presentation of summarized verified information about the condition of and anthropogenic load on the object of management (Dnipro basin) to the management bodies – the Council of Representatives (Russia-Ukraine) and Joint Commission (Russia-Belarus). On subsequent stages RDBIC will ensure the receipt of information generated by other projects under the Programme.

The network is unidirectional, meaning that information exchange between members is possible in the territory to RDBIC direction.

If needed, regional members can exchange information directly via e-mail. A copy of every message is sent to RDBIC.

The network development stage of the action plan envisages central node improvement in order to ensure communication with the Dnipro basin transnational environmental database. The database’s functional scheme is shown on Fig. 3.2.

At present, the network’s main actual users are the six territorial units of MNR of Russia and the organizations involved in transborder Dnipro basin management under the 1992 Ukrainian-Russian Transborder Water Bodies Agreement. Below are their e-mail addresses:

Organizations that received e-mail addresses under this project:

Belgorod                                                        drmprblg@mail.belgorod.ru
Bryansk                                                          drmprbrn@rol.ru
Kaluga                                                            drmprklg@kaluga.ru
Kursk                                                              drmprkrs@kursknet.ru
Smolensk                                                        drmprsml@sci.smolensk.ru
Orel                                                                 drmprorl@valley.ru
RDBIC                                                              dneprosinc@mtu-net.ru
Russian PMC (Committee office)                      Same


Organizations that received e-mail addresses outside of this project and the UNDP-GEF Programme:

Don River BWM                                                     dbvu@rost.ru
Moscow-Ob River BWM                                         mobvu@space.ru
Transborder Water Department Department of Water Resources, MNR of Russia                                                                   tgws@elnet.msk.ru
For reference: Desna RDWR (Ukraine)                  dbvu@cg.ukrtel.net

Fig. 3.1

The project envisages three operating modes for the network:

- Normal mode;
- Warning mode;
- Emergency mode.

Also, there is an auxiliary member training mode.

Key users of Dnipro basin management information are:

- Competent structures defined in the intergovernmental transborder water body agreements;
- Structures created under the UNDP-GEF Programme.

At present, the basis for the regulations is provided by the documents signed as a part of implementation of the 1992 Ukrainian-Russian Transborder Water Bodies Agreement, as well as by the regulations of information exchange between the units of Ukraine’s and Russia’s State Committees on Hydrology and Meteorology. The interests of other potential network users will be taken into account as they develop requirements to information exchange regulations.
The amount and frequency of presenting information in the normal mode are dictated by regulations of appropriate departmental information systems. Thus, key information in the normal operating mode is based on the State Water Cadastre (SWC) data and represented by information about the reserves, quality and use of surface and subterranean water.

In accordance with the SWC regulations, this information is updated yearly.

The waterworks safety database is updated dynamically and as safety declarations become available.

All the above information circulating in the normal operating mode does not need regulation of mutual information transmission between network nodes. As the central node that directly, within a single organization (VODNIIINFORMPROEKT) interacts with SWC’s water use database, RDBIC is able to provide Dnipro basin information without the need to organize additional information exchange between Russia’s Dnipro basin oblasts.

The network’s normal operating mode also includes presenting information received as a result of joint analytical monitoring of hydrochemical and radiological condition of water bodies at border sites performed as a part of implementation of the 1992 Ukrainian-Russian Transborder Water Bodies Agreement on the level of basin agencies with contiguous areas of responsibility. This information is presented four times a year (Table 4.1).

The network works rather differently in the warning mode (when water pollution is above normal but below extremal) and in the emergency mode (when water pollution is above extremal). For these modes, the draft network regulations, based on the requirements of the competent organizations mentioned above, establish directional information channels and presentation frequency (weekly for pollution levels above normal but below extremal and daily for extremal levels).

Channel organization is objectively determined by the Russian Dnipro basin’s drainage network (Fig. 4.1) and the list of water bodies and monitoring sites established within the Ukrainian-Russian Transborder Agreement (Table 4.1). A similar list within the agreement with Belarus (December 2002) is yet to be created.

Possible impact of emergencies on transborder water bodies has been assessed based on the above. Impact routes of emergencies relating to water bodies of the Russian Dnipro basin for the warning and emergency modes are shown in Table 4.2, where the number of each section corresponds to the address of the computer network node.

In the event of an emergency in the Russian Dnipro basin, the table is used to fix the emergency section by subbasin (row) and oblast (column). After that, the numbers of sections in the fixed row that are greater that the number of the emergency section are used to form a mailing list of network nodes for emergency warning. Emergency warning messages state the appropriate operating mode code:

- TPH (TRN) – training mode;
- HOP (NOR) – normal mode;
- NPE (WAR) – warning mode;
- YP3 (EMR) – emergency mode.

All modes require sending a copy of the message to RDBIC and the Regional Department of Water Resources (Chernihiv oblast, Ukraine).

Therefore, a standard normalized message may look like this:

“TRN / Phenol concentration at Krasny Kamen village site exceed maximum permissible concentration Q = 10 MPC. Cause: sediment tank overfilling at enterprise “Alfa” / TRN”.

Notation conventions

2, klg:

2 – number of section of the basin (from source to mouth;

99 – conventional number of virtual section);

klg – letter code of territory

BIC (UIC): - information centers in Belarus and Ukraine

* - is characterized by two rows depending on territorial location of emergency source