Ecosystem Services and Water Resource Management in a Small Scale River Basin Characterized by Ponds and Wetlands: Fizeş River (Romania)

Abstract

"Water resource management can prove to be a very difficult task. It is not an easy job trying to fulfill the current requirements of the Water Framework Directive 1 (WFD 2000/60/EC) especially because it is difficult to estimate what really 'good status' means according with WFD. In order to reach the 'good status' in a particular river basin the water manager needs to propose a so called Program of Measures, which identifies and proposes measures to be taken in order to lower the impact generated by human activities. All these measures are based on an evaluation of the supposed natural status and current status in the river basin. What we try to propose here is a model for an integrated management plan approach based both on the natural functionality of the river but also on the ecosystem services and social functionalities generated by man made ponds in the river basin."