The Tisza Office
The Tisza Office of the Middle Tisza Water Directorate (KÖTIVIZIG) was ceremonially inagurated 4th November 2014 by the participation of Mr. Ivan Zavadsky, Secretary General of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), Mr. István Joó, Danube Region Strategy Ministerial Commissioner (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Mr. István Láng, Deputy Director-General of the General Directorate of Water Management, Mr. Sándor Kovács, President of the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Assembly and Mr. István Szabó, Deputy Mayor of Szolnok.
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ICPDR Tisza Group
The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) works to ensure the sustainable and equitable use of waters and freshwater resources in the Danube River Basin. The work of the ICPDR is based on the Danube River Protection Convention, the major legal instrument for cooperation and trans-boundary water management in the Danube River Basin.
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World Fish Migration Day 2016 at Lake Tisza
The Middle Tisza District Water Directorate (MTDWD) Kisköre Branch is also joining to the WFMD on 21 May. It will be an open-day programme which let visitors participate in interesting guided-tours around the Kisköre fish passage. Visitors might have relevant information and unique experiences during the tour.
One of the most important artificial ecological corridor of Hungary as well as of Central Europe can be found at Kisköre Water Reservoir or as it widely known at LakeTisza, next to the Kisköre Dam. As part of the Complex Lake Tisza Project that creates the base of an ecological balance of the lowland reservoir of the Middle Tisza District Water Directorate, a fish pass was built connecting the lower and upper parts of Lake Tisza.
The importance of the so-called fish pass is to ensure an ecological corridor passageway for aquatic animals. The more than 1300 meter-long artificial creek balances step-up the 10 meter height difference of the two lake-parts.
A 180 meter-long long lead was built between the wintering harbour and the service route as the central element of the upper part of the ecological corridor functioning as a 1300-meter long artificial creek. Under the service route, a structure was built to exclude floods and for intake of water. A monitoring place was designed in the water-level regulatory structure where the move of fishes can be seen by transom-windows. Biologists and environmental scientists examine how fishes take possession in this corridor. The fish pass inaugurated in autumn 2014 by creating not only the conditions of permeability but it is also functioning as a habitat.
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JOINTISZA project
The 22nd ICPDR Tisza Group meeting was held between 12, 13 May 2015 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where representatives of Hungary introduced a Tisza Project concept as a first step towards the development of a project proposal to be submitted for the EU Danube Transnational Programme (DTP).
The JOINTISZA project proposal were submitted to DTP-webiste after a six month period of project development. The project main objective is strengthening cooperation between river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance the status of waters of the Tisza River Basin.
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