as described in the assessment of the daugava basin a review and development of the groundwater monitoring network in belarus is planned a nato project launched in late aimed at upgrading flood monitoring and forecasting capacity in the pripyat basin involving setting up automated monitoring stations on tributaries in both countries in total a draft management plan for the pripyat river basin was developed in the framework of the tacis project transboundary river basin management phase for the pripyat basin the chemical regime of the rivers in the basin has remained stable for the past five years according to the classification adopted in belarus some of water bodies are characterized as relatively clean and some as moderately polluted