Danube Day 2019 in Ukraine
Danube Day 2019
Location: Kiliya City Park
Date: 29th June 2019, 16:00pm
This event included live performances from some of the participating children, an "environmental quest", and plenty of tasty traditional fish soup. Finally – an additional special feature of the event was a photozone for the “Danube citizen passport”.
Press Conference
Location: Kiliya, Danube bank
Date and time: 29th of June, 14:00pm
A press conference on the new WFD-compliant surface water monitoring system in Ukraine took place on 29th June 2019 at 14:00, at the banks of the Danube River in Kiliya.
Water managers at national and regional level presented and answered questions in Kiliya, regarding new national WFD-compliant system of surface water monitoring, which entered in force from 2019. Experts from the Dnipro basin within the frame of the EU's Water Initiative project shared the information on the status of the Dnipro RBMP preparation. At the same time, the concept of JDS 4 were presented along with the role of Ukraine in it. Special attention were paid to the connection of JDS4 and Joint Black Sea surveys which take place later this summer in framework of EU / UNDP project, “Improving Environmental Monitoring of the Black Sea: selected measures” (EMBLAS-Plus).
The speakers include:
- Mykola Kuzyo – Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine
- Iryna Ovcharenko – Head of State Agency of Water Resources of Ukraine
- Johannes Baur – First Counsellor, Head of Operations Section, Economic Cooperation, Energy, Infrastructure and Environment, Delegation of European Union to Ukraine
- Yunona Videnina – thematic communication leader EUWI+
- Jaroslav Slobodnik – coordinator of Joint Danube Surveys 4 and Joint Black Sea surveys
Joint Sampling
Location: Kiliya, Danube bank
Date and time: 29th of June, 13:00pm
Additionally, Danube Day was celebrated with the public Joint sampling of Danube water for non-target chemical screening, ecological DNA and microplastic and on-job training for Ukrainian water management.
In frame of JDS4 a team of international experts took samples for further innovative methods of analysis, such as ecological DNA and NTS. Special attention were paid to the extraction of – for the first time in Ukraine – samples for microplastic (which accumulated suspended particles for the two weeks before the event). The real-time sampling was united with explanations, plus a Q&A session.
Further information
To see how all the countries celebrated in 2018, go to Review 2018. You can also revisit 15 years of Ukraine's Danube Day via the general Review page.
Read the latest news on Ukraine's Danube Day Facebook page or contact the country coordinator:
Olena Marushevska (+380 67 9 062 061) of the All-Ukrainian Ecological League; pripyat
i [dot] kiev [dot] ua; blueriversukrpost [dot] ua; and view Facebook.
