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WWF Statement: A New Solution for the Danube — Maps & Photos

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) — maps and photos illustrating the diversion of the Danube at Gabčíkovo, before and after.

Large Scale Overview
  • The Danube – essential part of Europe’s National Heritage
  • Av. 2,000 m³/sec of water flowed in the Danube
  • Dynamic changes of ground- and river water, Central Europe’s largest drinking water reservoir
  • 200 km² European-wide unique floodplain ecosystem
  • Gabčíkovo, mega-powerstation, 30 km channel
  • 85% of the water in the channel, only 15% in the Danube bed
  • Storage lake, impact on the groundwater table, endangering the drinking water for millions of people
  • Drying up and destruction of the riverine landscape

See also: Recommendations by WWF and Independent Scientists

Contact

Addresses of the Editors:

Dipl. Geogr. Alexander Zinke
WWF Austria
P.O. Box 1 A-1162 Vienna
Phone: 43-1/409 16 41
Fax: 43-1/409 16 41-29
Dr. Emil Dister
WWF Institute for Floodplains Ecology
Josefstr. 1
D-76437 Rastatt
Phone: 49-7222/32 065
Fax: 49-7222/30 189

Copies are available at:

WWF European Office
608, Chaussée de Waterloo
B-1060 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: 32-2/347 30 30, 347 36 12 (direct)
Fax: 32-2/344 05 11
WWF Austria
P.O.B. 1
A-1162 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: 43-1/409 16 41
Fax: 43-1/409 16 41-29