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Project
“Harmonised Inventory of Point and Diffuse
Emissions of N and P in the DRB”
MONERIS
MONERIS
•Undertaken by the Institute of Freshwater
Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin.
•The project aim: to determine and calculate
the annual nutrient emissions into the Danube river (1998 to
2000) by applying MONERIS model to the 388 sub-basins of DRB.
•7 pathways are considered: point sources
(discharges from municipal waste water treatment plants and direct industrial
discharges); atmospheric deposition; erosion; surface runoff; groundwater;
tile drainage and paved urban areas.
• Estimations of Agricultural Diffuse
Pollution: 4 main nutrient emission pathways influenced significantly by
agriculture –groundwater,
tile drainage, soil erosion and surface run-off.