Integrated Management of Transboundary Groundwater between
Bulgaria and Romania in Dobrudja/Dobrogea Area
The project was financed by the European Union under PHARE Programme and executed by the consortium led by EPTISA Internacional (Spain). The other consortium member was DHI (Denmark and Czech Republic). The example below is limited to about 15MB of data and information, whereas the project's Baseline Analysis Report presents ALL data from the project area on a CD with about 700MB of data.
Interactive Ground Water Data Processing and Presentation
An Example
Author: Jasminko Karanjac, PhD (Civil & Geological Engineering, Princeton Univ., 1971)
Consultant Hydrogeologist and Ground Water Management Professor (ret.), Team Leader in the above project
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karanjac@yahoo.com
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June 2008
Acknowledgment: The Transboundary Groundwater between Bulgaria and Romania in the Dobrudja/Dobrogea Area is a good example of full cooperation between two neighboring countries. The data that have been used by the project and uploaded to the CD titled Baseline Analysis Report (a part of which is reproduced here) have been unselfishly supplied by beneficiary institutions form both countries such as National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH, Sofia), Black Sea Basin Directorate (BSBD, Varna), Executive Environmental Agency (ExEA, Sofia), Directia Apelor Dobrogea-Litoral (DADL, Constanta) and National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Bucharest (INHGA/NIHWM).
The project had five main components: 
(1) Data collection and assessment for elaboration of the Joint Monitoring Programme, (2) Development of Joint Transboundary Groundwater Monitoring Programme; (3) Selection and validation of a Groundwater Model; (4) Establishment of Joint Bulgarian and Romanian Groundwater Information System; and (5) Institutional Capacity Building.
Many people contributed to the project. The author wishes to thank especially to Dr. Marta Machkova and Dr. Dobri Dimitrov (NIMH, Sofia), Mrs. Rossitza Gorova (ExEA, Sofia), Mr. Adrian Chera and his team (DADL, Constanta, Romania), Mrs. Ruxandra Balaet (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Romania), Mr. V.Nikolov and his staff (BSBD) and staff of GEOFUND (MoEW, Sofia).
Especial acknowledgment goes to Mrs. Sylvia Teneva, Head of Monitoring Section of the PHARE Unit at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works that was the Contracting and Executing Agency.
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