{"id":6258,"date":"2024-02-26T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varosieso.hu\/2024\/02\/26\/urban-rain-and-the-national-water-strategy\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:25:33","slug":"urban-rain-and-the-national-water-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varosieso.hu\/en\/2024\/02\/26\/urban-rain-and-the-national-water-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban rain and the National Water Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The effects of climate change and altered hydrological conditions call for a paradigm shift in (rain) water management. This issue is currently regulated in several documents, of which the most important is the Kvassay Jen\u0151 Plan, the National Water Strategy, which<\/span> identifies urban stormwater management as the most underdeveloped area of water management in Hungary and calls for a paradigm shift.<\/b><\/p>\n

Our National Water Strategy, the Kvassay Jen\u0151 Plan (KJT), is the framework strategy and medium-term action plan for Hungarian water management up to 2030 and 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Jen\u0151 Kvassay<\/span><\/a><\/h5><\/div>
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(born 6 July 1850 in Buda – died 6 June 1919 in Budapest), engineer, creator of the modern Hungarian water service.<\/p>\n

He graduated as a mechanical engineer in Pest, then studied agriculture and hydraulic engineering in Mosonmagyar\u00f3v\u00e1r and Paris. After learning about the French and German water services, and returning home in 1878, he was entrusted with the creation and management of the Agricultural Water Service, the Institute of Cultural Engineering, based on his experiences abroad. The scope of its activities ranged from inland water drainage, river regulation, irrigation and drainage, to the supervision of fisheries and pond management. The institution was later merged into the National Water Construction Directorate, established in 1899 for the unified management of the country’s water affairs, headed by Kvassay until his retirement in 1918.<\/p>\n

Kvassay, who managed the country’s water affairs for four decades, was actively involved in the creation of the first Water Act, which went a long way to regulating the legal uses of water, and in the creation and adoption of several water-related laws; the construction of the port of Fiume (until 1914); the regulation of the Upper Danube and the Iron Gate; the regulation of the B\u00e9ga; the regulation of the R\u00e1ckeve (Soroks\u00e1ri) Danube (from 1904); the construction of the port of Csepel (from 1910). In 1890, he founded the Water Publications magazine, still in existence today. .<\/p>\n

Among his literary works, the Agricultural Hydrology handbook (1880-82), . The entrance lock of the National and Free Port of Csepel is named Kvassay lock in his honour.<\/p>\n

Source : https:\/\/www.hidrologia.hu\/mht\/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=225&Itemid=143<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Based on the exploration of the relationship between society and water, the aim of the KJT is to formulate measures to prevent the threatening water crisis, and to take the necessary measures against the signs of it in time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Preserving water is an indispensable condition for life and security for future generations, and a resource for our economy. Sustainable and efficient water management is a cornerstone of our national strategy.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The KJT attaches particular importance to the protection of natural watercourses and the preservation of their natural state, as well as to the implementation of landscape management in agriculture that is better adapted to natural conditions, and therefore outlines a water management framework for these, adapted to the needs of nature conservation and ecology. This is in line with the National Environment Programme, the National Rural Strategy and the National Sustainable Development Strategy. The KJT also draws attention to the use of renewable energies, in line with the objectives of the National Energy Strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

Need for the KJT, challenges<\/h2>Our earth's supply of fresh water is constant, but when projected per capita, the decline is dramatic. Over the last forty years, the global average of 13,000 cubic metres per capita per year has fallen to 5,000. Population trends and climate change threaten to create a global water crisis, posing an extraordinary challenge to water management.<\/div><\/div>

To avoid and mitigate this, major world players are calling for joint action on water.<\/h3>\n

In the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN in September 2015, water is a key priority for 2030, with the following areas: <\/span><\/p>\n