FLOODS, DROUGHTS AND SOILS EROSION : THE SLOVAK SOLUTION
Channel: Valliance Prod
Date: 2023-05-17

. MANAGING TERRITORIES IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
. SOLVING FLOODS, DROUGHT AND EROSION AT THE SAME TIME

2011 - 
In Slovakia, 488 municipalities took part in the "Landscape Revitalization" program funded by the Slovak government and the European Community.
They built over 100,000 small stone and wooden structures in the drainage ditches of watersheds.

These numerous filter barriers distribute and infiltrate rainfall throughout the area concerned. They avoid concentrating the load of a flood on just one, two or three retention points (open or closed dams), which have an invasive impact and have to cope with increasingly violent meteorological phenomena, outside historical reference frameworks.

This simple and highly effective solution not only prevents downstream flooding, but also recharges the water table.

Its third advantage is that it stores plant debris carried by runoff into watercourses behind the small barriers. 
This reduces soil erosion and gradually restores the soil.

The REVITALIZATION OF A TERRITORY and its resilience to climate change depend on its ability to absorb rainfall and make ecosystems flourish again.

Epilogue :
2021 - 2031
Slovakia's second-largest region and the city of Kosice embark on a plan to fully restore water in their territories :
. 700,000 hectares of forests, farmland and urban areas,
. 60 million m3 of rainfall retained by a wide variety of water retention methods,
. 408 million euros invested over 10 years.

This experience is a European case study.

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