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5th Mission Report _KE3_March-April 2013Early Warning and Emergency Response Systems (EWERS)The senior managers discussed with KE3 the EWERS that are used with the ICPDR (Danube Commission).Each country has dedicated contact sites and an emergency system of alerting countries of any seriouspollution upstream of the Danube, which includes some of the major tributaries. Moldova has beenalerted to a number of incidents from Ukraine and some of which may have been caused by leakage fromtheir tailing dams.In ICPDR there is a useful decision making software to categorise how serious any pollution incident is andtherefore how to deal with it. However, they do not have any simple software to track the pollutant as itflows downstream, therefore these pollution incidents are difficult to monitor. It is recommended thatthe Project considers trialling a simple software developed in the recent EU project for the Yellow River inChina that uses Google Earth as a platform, which the KE3 has experience in applying.Public Awareness (Activity 2.7)The CWME arranged a high profile meeting with the Environment Minister, George Şalaru, and ViceMinister, Valentina Tapic together with Gavril Gilca & Svetlana Stirbu, SHS Senior Managers, to discuss theProject with the CWME and KE3. This proved to be a fruitful meeting and the Minister was verysupportive of the Project and the important inputs by KE3. The details of this meeting and the Projectwere immediately downloaded on to their public website:http://mediu.gov.md/index.php/serviciul-de-presa/noutati/1294-ministrul-mediului-gheorghe-salaruimplementarea-proiectului-protectia-mediului-in-bazinele-riurilor-internationale-este-un-aport-lagestionarea-eficienta-a-resurselor-de-apaThe details are included in Annex 1Training MaterialsThe training materials were discussed with the Senior Managers to ensure that sufficient equipment andchemicals will be available to complete the training by the Key Experts for the JFS. KE3 reflected theseurgent requirements in the draft Updated Surface Water Training Report submitted to the Senior ProjectManagers.WB DelineationThe KE3 and the CMWE met with Dr. Gennadii Syrdroev Institute of Geography at the Academy ofChemistry, responsible for the GIS WB Delineation. The following points were made:i. 60 WBs had been identified according to the catchment zones and includes 17 WBs at risk owing tolarge waste water treatment works from the from the major towns. These WBs need to beprioritized according to their risks from their populations.ii. The WBs need to be coded according to the international reference systems.iii. Two major fish farms are in the pilot area but currently there is no water quality information, whichneeds to be taken into account for planning the JFS to resolve this gap.iv. Moldova had a classification system using 7 categories and this is number is currently beingreduced to 5 as in Ukraine and WFD. Hopefully the conversion of this old to new system can beapplied to assist the initial classifications for the pilot area of the Prut.v. The GIS project will be completed shortly and submitted to the Project key experts.Page 7 of 23