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Joanna Szymańska IMPROVEMENT IN SANITARY CONDITIONS IN LOWER SILESIA
AS ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF REGIONAL POLICY FOR 2004-2006 – SELECTED PROBLEMS
European Union). This situation can pose a threat to health or even life of inhabitants in
certain areas and can have an adverse effect on ecological condition of the environment.
In science publications, this problem is discussed, among others, by J. Siekierski: “ (...).
The safety in the scope of health and life means also ecological safety. Transformations
in economy must take into account the need of protecting the environment in order to
achieve its high quality, which is necessary for further development of economy and
thus, quality of human life. Space management should ensure adequate relations
between human needs and the needs of environmental protection” [4, p. 6]. Also I.
Kociszewska draws attention to economic problems, which, alongside with social
problems, result from undercapitalization of rural areas in Poland: “(...). Poorly
developed technical infrastructure in rural areas is one of the most serious barriers for
rural development. An inadequate degree of infrastructure development not only
decreases the standard of living and management, but also decides about attractiveness
of rural areas for investors. Capital barriers and limited financial possibilities of local
governments are not conducive to infrastructure development. (...) development of
infrastructure has a positive effect on developing pro-ecological attitudes” [1, p. 136-
144].
Deficiencies in the scope of infrastructure for discharging and treating domestic and
municipal sewage and process waste, as well as in the scope of municipal waste
separation and disposal systems, a high degree of pollution of the natural environment,
mainly in surface and underground waters and soils, durable assurance of flood safety
for people and property in the drainage basin of the River Odra and its tributaries, are
considered to be main problems of development of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
Capital expenditures in the scope of environmental protection and water
management in Lower Silesia in 2004-2006 according to investment directions
In 2004-2006, there occurred multidirectional variations in the value of financial
resources, which were spent on investments connected both with environmental
protection and water management (Table 1). After decreasing them in 2005, as
compared with the previous year (down to PLN 620 862 thousand, i.e. by 17.8%), an
increase in the value of these financial resources took place in the subsequent period (up
to PLN 777 210.7 thousand, i.e. by 25.2%). A decrease in the value of the analysed
expenditures in 2004-2005 was caused by reduction in the value of funds assigned for
financing investments in the scope of environmental protection and water management
in the investigated region. However, expenditures on financing investments in the scope
of water management decreased relatively more dynamically (down to PLN 191 372
thousand, i.e. by 20.8%) than those for environmental protection (down to PLN 620 862
thousand, i.e. by 16.4%). In turn, in the second investigated period (2005-2006), the
total increase in the analysed funds (connected both with investments in the scope of
water management and environmental protection) was caused mainly by the increase in
funds spent on investments on environmental protection (up to PLN 571 211.5
thousand, i.e. by 33%) rather than those spent on water management (up to PLN 205
999.2 thousand, i.e. by 7.6%).
When analysing the structure of allocating total expenditures on investments in the
scope of water management and environmental protection, it should be stated that in
each of the investigated years (2004-2006), more funds were spent on investments
connected with environmental protection than with water management. Additionally,
the share of the latter increased. In 2004, in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, the share
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