Moldova (Total: USD 40,000) Pollution Reduction with Nitrogen Compounds in the Danube River Basin USD 11,467 NGO Name: ECOINGINERIE NGO Project Leader: Grigore Hancu                                          Project Summary: The project will create and develop an advanced-technology and pilot installation that reduces nitrogen pollution of the Danube River Basin based on the municipal water discharges treatment methodology. It will disseminate the results and train staff at the wastewater treatment plants of the Danube Basin, selected specialists and high-level education institutes. The concept of advanced technologies foresees the use of processes like microbiological nitrification/de-nitrification, micro filtration through porous membranes, and nitrogen component assimilation by superior aquatic plants. The project aims to: develop and test these technologies at a demonstrational pilot installation in the real conditions of the Cahul purifying station; create premises for updating the technology of the wastewater treatment plants for municipal water discharges situated in the Danube River Basin (by studying the possibilities to install the bio-jet engines); establish optimal efficiency for nitrogen compound reduction in municipal water discharges; prepare and implement a study course on nutrient elimination technologies out of the municipal water discharges, for the students of the Technical University of Moldova; raise public awareness via information dissemination; and organise a demonstrational workshop to disseminate information. Nutrient Pollution Reduction in the Prut Tributary Rivers   USD 10,000 NGO Name: Edinet Territorial Branch of the Ecological Movement of Moldova Project Leader: Ana Ghetu                                          Project Summary: The environmental balance of the Ciuhur River is destroyed after wastewater is discharged into it. Aquatic pollution leads to exteocenoze and flora disappearance in the micro-wetlands of the Ciuhur River as well as Danube Basin pollution. Large quantities of water discharges lead to bank erosion and degradation. Thus, the project aims to improve the quality of discharged waters into the Ciuhur River hydrographical network through: chemical and bacteriological water tests — studying discharged waters after the first cleaning stage and assessing the quality of the cleaned-up discharges; biological re-construction of the existing lakes and initiating their functioning in order to clean the discharged waters in the region; creation of a common system to accumulate and clean the discharged waters from the wastewater treatment plant of the Moldovan enterprise Apa-Canal and the company Cupcini Cristal in order to increase the efficiency of treatment. This process will be developed by repairing three dams and building two new dams on the lakes, and cleaning the mud from the existing biological lakes. public informing and awareness raising on environmental problems and ways of solving them; and training for mayors and the public from the Ciuhur River basin on household waste depositing rules and water pollution avoiding activities. A Way to Reduce the Concentration of Water Biogenic Elements (Nutrients) in the Danube Basin  USD 10,000 NGO Name: Calitatea Mediului Project Leader: Raisa Lozan                                        Project Summary: There are six urban and four rural wastewater treatment plants in the Ungheni district that discharge insufficiently treated or cleaned water into the small tributary courses of the Prut River, an important tributary of the Danube River. Thus, a new practice is going to be developed in order to increase the efficiency of the wastewater treatment plant from the village of Valea Mare in the Ungheni District to reduce Danube Basin pollution with toxic and non-toxic chemicals compounds. The project foresees reconstruction (changing or replacing the grids) and partial technological overhaul (oxidising the cleaned discharges before entering in the emissary) of the Valea Mare wastewater treatment plant, and the setting up and exploitation of a pilot installation using micro-flora fixed on a filter. Air pumps will provide supplementary enrichment with oxygen. The processes of self-treatment in the Prut River will be re-established through diminution of the anthropogenic impact caused by the Valea Mare wastewater treatment plant. The population (especially children) will be informed and trained to help to alleviate water pollution and rehabilitate big and small rivers. Developing Capacities to Promote Organic Farming to Reduce Nutrient Pollution in the Danube River Basin (the Project Covers Falesti District Area)   USD 8,533 NGO Name: Cutezatorul Project Leader: Vitalie Cimpoies                                   Project Summary: The use of inefficient agricultural methods led to the increased nutrients in lakes and the Prut River tributaries, stimulating soil erosion and alkalinisation processes, water eutrophication, as well as flora and fauna disappearance. The situation could be improved only through a serious informational and training campaign, organic farming promotion, pollution source liquidation and serious rehabilitation activities. The efficient use of animal dejections and organic farming promotion, together with a reduction in toxic and nutrient substances in the Danube basin will contribute to the sustainable development of the rural and urban settlements. To this end, the project aims to contribute to the nutrient pollution reduction of the Danube River basin through the promotion of organic farming methods, training and raising awareness on responsibilities of the local public authorities, farmers and population in the field of water protection, involving them in environmental conservation and rehabilitation activities (liquidation of six unauthorised dumps, two chemical dumps, planting one forest protection band, etc.), developing and editing a guide on the methods of organic farming, and other non-pollutant agricultural practices. The objectives of the project are the following: a pollution sources inventory of the Prut River and its tributaries, local public administrations and public information on the results in order to take measures of rivers rehabilitation; training of local public administrations, farmers, NGOs and economic entities on organic farming and nutrient pollution reduction; and nutrient pollution reduction by involving the large public in the real actions and activities of environmental conservation and rehabilitation.

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