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The influence of Prague on water quality in the Vltava and the Czech Elbe

RNDr. Josef Fuksa, CSc. – 3/2022

Paper deals with the development of water quality of the river stretch of Elbe between the confluence Elbe/Vltava and the Hřensko/Schmilka on the frontier Czech Republic/Federal Republic of Germany in the period 1980–2020 and with the influence of Prague City on its pollution. After the significant improvement in the period 1985–2000, the quality of water discharged through the profile Hřensko generally complies with the German level at least. Assessment of the transport budgets shows that Vltava river contributes more to the system only as having higher water discharges. Prague City contributes to the pollution of Vltava and Elbe only by discharge of phosphorus, for the rest of common pollution items it functions only as a non-significant source.

Principles of approach to optimization of water and soil protection in the Svratka River sub-basins

Ing. Jana Konečná, Ph.D., Mgr. Petr Karásek, Ing. Petr Fučík, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Jana Podhrázská, Ph.D., Ing. Roman Hanák, Ing. Stanislav Ryšavý, Ing. Lukáš Sýkora, Ing. Petr Doležal, Ing. Michal Kriška, Ph.D., Ing. Michal Pochop, Ing. Josef Kučera and Ing. Svatava Křížková – 2/2018

Presently a demand of sustainable maintenance of water quantity and quality is more and more accented in context of population booming and actual climate change. A research project no. QJ1620040, supported by the Czech Agricultural Research Agency, has started in 2016 with the aim to assess the options for reduction of water pollution both from point and non-point sources with suspended solids, nitrogen and phosphorus in drinking water sources catchments.