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Last decade marked an epoch of a deep environment-economic crisis. In water resource management, this crises was caused by a totalitarian economic model, outdated conceptual approaches and principles of water resources management and absence of state policy of water use.
All programs of environmental revival in the river basins must be implemented in two stages. At the first stage of program implementation, when no heavy investment is expected in water sector, it is necessary to concentrate on management improvements and to create favorable legislative, organizational and economic environment . It is also important to prioritize the measures of emergency prevention. At the second stage, efforts must be made to implement the activities aimed at preservation and rehabilitation of natural environment. In so doing, one must remember that the improvement of water quality within one section of a river will not settle the problem for the whole river, in other words, it is necessary to adopt a basin approach to the development of all water protection programs.
The overall goal of this project is to analyze the existing laws and standards regulating water usage in the Republic of Belarus and to develop conceptual approaches to the management and improvement of water quality of the Dnipro.
Legal regulation of use and protection of water bodies based on basin principle of water management and unrelated to the administrative boundaries plays an important role in maintaining, renewal and improvement of water quality in the Dnipro basin. Legal provisions must create most favorable environment for management and improvement of water quality.
