Landscape revitalisation and integrated river basin management programme

The content of the programme is to create, activate and develop the long-term prerequisites necessary for the social utility and the effective macroeconomic function of a complex and integrated system of measures to assure flood prevention along with a decrease in flood risks, the risk of drought and other risks of extreme natural events.
International best practices for flood prevention pursuant to European experts are based on a three-level approach with the following progression:
(i) First harvesting rain water at the site or place where it falls – retaining
(ii) Then retention and accumulation of the rain water in the landscape – storing
(iii) Finally draining off the portion of the rain water that the river basin/area/landscape did not absorb in the previous step – draining
This approach also defines the main aims and priorities of the programme: storing rain water in the landscape, slowing its drainage and allowing it to be absorbed as well as revitalisation and restoration of damaged landscapes/areas/river basins.