The Master Plan Migratory Fish Rhine is supposed to indicate how self sustaining, stable populations of migratory fish can again be settled in the Rhine watershed as far as the Basel area within both reasonable time and costs. On 18 October 2007, the Conference of Rhine Ministers…
The WAP distinguishes between warnings, information and search reports.
The International Main Alert Centres (IHWZ) issue warnings in cases of water pollution incidents implying substances noxious to water, if the amounts or concentrations concerned may detrimentally impact the…
In 2005, analysis of dredged material from the Upper Rhine indicated a too high degree of sediment contamination. Thus, in 2005 a coordinated sediment management plan for the Rhine was commissioned. The result we now dispose of is the first plan for an international river basin…
Since modifications of climate values impact the hydrological processes as well as the water regime, the Conference of Rhine Ministers charged the ICPR in 2007 to draft a scenario study for the flow regime of the Rhine.
The ICPR has immediately started work on this issue in its…
Biological assessment of the Rhine – main stream – 2006 / 2007
During the last years, an extensive biological survey of the Rhine has been carried through. Due to today’s good quality of Rhine water and the already implemented measures targeted at improving river continuity and…
Salmon: Improve access to habitats and reduce illegal catches
Based on a comprehensive fish-ecological analysis including priority measures for the further development and spreading of the stock of salmon, sea trout, allice shad and lamprey, the ICPR presents new proposals for…
The WAP distinguishes between warnings, information and search reports.
The International Main Alert Centres (IHWZ) issue warnings in cases of water pollution incidents implying substances noxious to water, if the amounts or concentrations concerned may detrimentally impact the…
Dieses Messprogramm gilt für das Messjahr 2007 und vermittelt einen Ausblick bis 2012. Es ist möglich, auf der Grundlage der gewonnenen Erkenntnisse die Messkenngrößen, -frequenzen und -zyklen jährlich anzupassen und jedes Jahr das Messprogramm für das neue Messjahr rechtzeitig…
The ICPR programme “Rhine 2020” targeted at the sustainable development of the Rhine, aims, among other things, at improving the Rhine ecosystem and at restoring the biotope network along the Rhine.
The ICPR-atlas on the biotope network along the Rhine presents…
