Implementation of Legal Obligations related to Water and Environmental Protection in Sensitive Areas

By designating the entire Black Sea basin as a sensitive area, the central European countries, including the Republic of Croatia, have assumed a very demanding task of raising the treatment of wastewater to a higher level in a relatively short period of time (removal of nutrients, N and P compounds).

This poses a big challenge to the recession-hit economy and population burdened with loan commitments related to the past infrastructural investments.

How to achieve this in a smart and rational way, not repeating the mistakes made by the countries which have largely fulfilled the above-mentioned task? What sorts of solutions have proven best in technical terms and in terms of costs and maintenance? Is the reduction of nutrients in watercourses proportionate to the funds spent for that purpose? What do eutrophication trends in the Black Sea look like once the measures have been implemented?

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