Implementation of the Water Integrated Monitoring System from Romania (WIMS) in the Somes-Tisa River Basin Water Administration

The increasing demand for cleaner water resources has been evident for considerable time. For this reason the knowledge of the status of water bodies and its evolution in time is an objective requirement which can not be adequately achieved without a modern integrated water monitoring system. As part of water resource management, monitoring activity has an important place, representing a major mechanism for quality and quantity water protection. In 2000, after a long decisional process, the European Community approved the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC), which established a policy framework for water management in the European Union based on sustainable development principles and which integrated all water issues, including problems of water’s integrated monitoring. In this paper are presented some aspects concerning the synthesis of integrated water monitoring system, important mechanism for water resources management, applied to the Somes-Tisa Basin by Somes-Tisa River Basin Water Administration. The types of monitoring programmes of the new monitoring system are in line with the requirements of the EU Directives: surveillance monitoring, operational monitoring, investigative monitoring, reference conditions, intercalibration exercises, drinking water abstraction, vulnerable zones under the nitrate directive, fish fauna, habitat protection, international and bilateral conventions, hydromorphological alterations.