$ and Sense of Non-point Source Water Pollution Monitoring in Central and Eastern Europe, and USAID/ Moldova Case Study (Latif)

This paper presents the pollution monitoring approach and selected results from USAID Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Danube Pollution Reduction Program in Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania; and discusses a case study on non-point source pollution monitoring in Moldova associated with USAID and non-USAID programs. The USAID/GEF Danube project in three key tributaries of the Danube River was meant to improve water quality and reduce transboundary pollution coming from Slovakia and Romania into Hungary and ultimately to the Black Sea. The program’s intent was to serve as one implementation model for similar environmental improvement activities (Ref. 1and 2) to be undertaken in 17 countries of the Danube River Basin as part of the Environmental Action Plan (EAP) and Strategic Action Plan (SAP). The intent of Moldova case study on non- point source pollution monitoring also has a strong potential of replication in Central and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

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