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IMPROVEMENT IN SANITARY CONDITIONS IN LOWER SILESIA AS ONE
OF THE PRIORITIES OF REGIONAL POLICY FOR 2004-2006 – SELECTED
PROBLEMS
Joanna Szymańska
University of Economics Wroclaw
joanna.szymanska@ae.wroc.pl
Keywords:
Environmental protection – technical infrastructure – regional policy – Lower Silesia
Abstract:
This aim of this study is to show the fairly favourable changes, which occurred in
Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the scope of improvement in sanitary conditions in the
first three years after Poland’s accession to the European Union. The study is focused
on the analysis of capital expenditures on natural environment protection and water
management. The possibilities of supporting the development of the region, which
occurred in 2004-2006 within structural funds and Cohesion Fund, have been presented.
The necessity of further actions in the scope of improving the sanitary conditions in
Lower Silesia as the only proper way of reaching the socio-economic and ecological
balance has been emphasized.
Introduction
In accordance with the reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which
makes the sustainable development a necessary condition of economic growth,
counteraction against area pollutions and achieving good ecological conditions of
waters by 2015 have been designated as pro-environmental priorities of the Rural
Development Plan for 2004-2006 and 2007-2013. The guidelines of the EU policy
concerning the rural and agricultural development for 2004-2006 and next years
assumed and still assume an increase in the standard of living of rural residents. Specific
actions should serve this purpose, including, first of all, building the sewerage
infrastructure discharging sewage from farmsteads and proper storage of manures [2].
According to W. Michna, “ (...). A lack of sewage systems and sewage treatment plants,
especially in large villages that use water supply systems is the source of pollution in
rural areas and results in so called area pollutions [as it is emphasized by W. Michna,
apart from network water supply systems, farmstead water supply systems, so called
local systems, also have developed in rural areas, and the dynamics of their
dissemination in 1968-1994 was much faster than in case of network water supply
systems. (...). Incorrect disposal of animal faeces, resulting in considerable emissions of
nitrogen and phosphorus, concerns roughly 600- 700 thousand farmsteads. So
improvement in disposal of animal faeces becomes a very important and urgent issue.
(...). In rural areas, a network of illegal landfill sites becomes larger and larger [data
for 1998]. The problem of building organized landfill sites, including hermetic
containers for toxic waste, is growing.” [3, p. 71-73]. In Poland, backlogs in this scope
are still relatively large, despite a lapse of a decade and, first of all, despite a new socioeconomic
and political situation (system transformation, Poland’s accession to the
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