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Interview with deputy research and development Ing. Jiří Hůlka of the National Radiation Protection Institute, which is a public research institution since 2011, when it was established by the decision of the chairman of the State Office for Nuclear Safety. The interview deals with radiation protection and public research institutions and their issues.
Testing laboratory is responsible for the sampling for the purposes of the Water Act, the Water Supply and Sewerage Act and the Public Health Protection Act. Requirements for the qualification and further training of samplers are defined by the laboratory in its controlled documentation, while in the case of water sampling; the new minimum requirements are set in the standard ČSN EN ISO 5667-14.
In 1980, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Academician Theodor Ježdík, the then Czech Central Committee of the Water Management Society of ČSVTS, announced at the instigation of prof. Ing. Dr. L. Votruba, DrSc., Diploma of Academician Theodor Ježdík as a prize for key works in the field of theory, research, development, preparation, construction and operation of water management works and equipment.
On 24 May 2016 there was a meeting of the general meeting ČVTVHS, z. s., on Novotného lávka.
Currently, new projects of water transfers are discussed as a potential measure for dealing with drought and water scarcity. However, there are some issues related with this measure, which require to be considered.
Physicians with a little exaggeration claim that a healthy person does not exist, only to be met with a poorly-diagnosed patient. This claim can also be applied to drinking water and wastewater.
Historic civilizations have dried up, archaeologists find them under sand deposits. The oldest great civilization was in Mesopotamia on the territory of present-day Syria between the Euphrates and Tygris.
Sdělovací prostředky reagují především na aktuální situace a vzhledem k vyššímu výskytu extrémních situací, jako jsou epizody sucha, vlny veder, výskyt intenzivních srážek, je jejich komentování přirozeně častějším mediálním tématem. Z pohledu člověka odtrženého od přírody se může množství a frekvence tohoto typu informací zdát skutečně vysoká.
Interview with Ing. Daniel Pokorný Director of the State Administration of Water Management and River Basin Management at the Ministry of Agriculture on the topic of surface water and flood protection hydraulic structures.
As part of the measures aimed at the current issue of mitigating the flood damage caused by the occurrence of a significant drought, attention was focused, among other things, on water transfers between sub-basins of watercourses.
This contribution is the first of a series of thematically similar articles – the author would like to familiarize the reader with the oldest recorded reports on the utilization of the energy of watercourses in Bohemia during the early Middle Ages.
After February 10, 2017 information about the imminent bursting of the dam Oroville was reported in the media. This article adds details.
On 20. 12. 2016 was held seminar Protective zones of drinking water sources from surface sources in the House of technicians in Prague.
As a supporter of substantive discussions, I would like to submit one more clarification as a reaction to response of Ing. Ondřej Beneš, Ph.D., MBA, LL.M., SOVAK CR representative.
In 2016, the standard activity continued when the committee of company met ten times, including one at the exit meeting.
Rozhovor s náměstkyní ministra životního prostředí Ing. Berenikou Peštovou, Ph.D., na téma plánování v oblasti vod a otázky k problematice vodního zákona.
Interview with a head of the Department of Irrigation and Landscape Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering doc. Dr. Ing. By Tomáš Dostál on the topic of universities and recruitment of students, floods and droughts.
The workshop on the issue of small reservoirs was held at the headquarters ČVTVHS in the convention hall no. 217, Club technicians, Novotného lávka 5, Prague 1, on 27 September 2016.
Traditional seminar of Adolf Patera was held on 16 November 2016 at the headquarters of Czech scientific water company (ČVTVHS), Club technicians, Novotného lávka.
SOVAK CR has been involved and active in the coordination group and subgroup to protect water for the preparation and implementation of the National Action Plan to reduce the use of pesticides (NAP), which sets out a series of measures and tasks for individual ministries and other bodies.
Interview with director of SOVAK ČR Ing. Oldřich Vlasák on the theme of water law, separation of powers and the OPE.
Almost the entire 2015 precipitation was below normal and on the contrary temperature significantly above normal. Precipitation deficit began to show early in 2015 and peaked in mid-August with a further deepening in the autumn months.
In the last issue of the journal VTEI (5/2016), the reader can get acquainted with the opinion of SOVAK ČR to support “as soon as possible a complete ban on the use of glyphosate,” with regard to the possible contamination of surface waters with this substance (the main ingredient of total herbicides Roundup type) and its residues.
This year could every citizen of our country record a truly remarkable anniversary – the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV.
Interview on the topic of climate change and climate scenarios with RNDr. Jan Daňhelka, Ph.D., Deputy of Hydrology from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.
Although the European Commission on 29 June this year decided on a temporary extension of the use of chemical products containing the herbicide glyphosate for 18 months, the Association of Water Supply and Sewerage Czech Republic, IB (SOVAK) and the European Association of water companies (EUREAU) are pushing as soon as possible complete a ban on glyphosate.
Public has no idea that in this country is the lack of water and the trend is rather negative and will most likely continue in the future.
Interview with Minister of Agriculture Ing. Marian Jurečka on the topic of drought and water management planning.
The research team, consisting of experts from the TGM Water Research Institute, p. r. i. (RNDr. Dana Baudišová, Ph.D., Ing. Tomáš Mičaník, Ing. Eduard Hanslík, Ph.D., Mgr. Denisa Němejcová and others), started from February 2016 work on the research project “The quality and evaluation of surface waters”.
In the period 2013-2016 was solved the project program NAKI Ministry of Culture called “Flooded cultural and natural heritage of South Moravia” by the team of experts from various fields that straddle the TGM WRI, p. r. i.
Czech Republic is among six countries in the EU, which shows in microbiological and chemical parameters of drinking water from 99 to 100 percent of the required quality.
In our country there are at least ten water supply systems and dozens of provincial or regional group water mains, which were built in the sixties to the seventies of last century, whose lifetime presently terminate or expire in the coming years.
On 26 May, on the occasion of the 97th anniversary of the current TGM Water Research Institute p. r. i., was held an informal meeting organized by TGM WRI.
On Saturday, June 4, 2016 was held on the occasion of World Environment Day under the auspices of the Minister of the Environment Mgr. Richard Brabec Open Day TGM Water Research Institute, p. r. i.
National Dialogue on water is a traditional event organized by the Czech Science and Technology water management society in collaboration with the TGM Water Research Institute p. r. i.
On June 22, 2016 was held on Novotného lávka in Prague, under the auspices of the expert group Waste water – water purity seminar “New legislation in water protection”, accredited by the Ministry of Interior.
On 25 May 2016 there was a meeting of the general meeting ČVTVHS, z. s., on Novotného lávka.
Recently, the Czech Republic has been affected with negative impacts of hydrological extremes (such as floods and droughts). This is the reason why different types of regulation modifications have been discussed in order to address increasing water scarcity and variability throughout a year.
Interview with former Minister of Environment and President of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube Ing. Petr J. Kalaš.
The second year is running the Project Civil measurement science transparency water ponds in the Czech Republic. Second year on hundreds of lakes intensively measure water transparency, and in three key periods: in the second half of April and June, and in August and September.
