| Title: |
Euwareness Report: Case Study 2 (Belgium): Dender River Basin
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| Resource Type: |
document --> case study
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| Country: |
EU Projects
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| Year: |
2002 |
| Availability: |
Aubin, D. and Varone, F. (2002) Case Study 2 (Belgium): Dender River Basin, EUWARENESS,Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Unité de Sciences politiques et Relations internationales (SPRI), Association universitaire de Recherche sur l'Action publique (AURAP), Belgium.
http://www.euwareness.nl/results/Belgie-2-kaft.pdf
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| Author 1/Producer: |
David Aubin and Frédéric Varone
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| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Short description: |
EUWARENESS is a research project on European Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status. Research institutes
from six European countries (Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland) have been cooperating in this two year
project (2000-2002). More information is available on www.euwareness.nl. The project is supported by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme, and co-ordinated by the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
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| Long description: |
The Dender basin is a tributary basin of the international Schelde (Escaut) basin, located in
Flanders. Its superficies is of 1384 km², but the official basin, as designed by the Flemish
authorities is of 708 km² (Vesdre, 710 km²). The river Dender flows South to North. The
upstream part of the basin is located in Wallonia, at the South of the Dender basin. The
Dender basin is located precisely at the West of Brussels, at a mead distance between Brussels
and Ghent. The basin is densely populated. The main town, located downstream, is Aalst (or
Alost). The rivers’flow is conditioned by rainfalls. A wide set of water uses is embraced
inside the basin. Agriculture and breeding are well developed upstream and industry
downstream, along the navigable part of the Dender. Population is spread on all the territory,
especially concentrated upstream. Even if natural places are protected, the basin has no
initially preserved and wild areas, the same as most parts of Flanders. Tourism is not well
developed even if present. No drinking water is produced locally. Another characteristic of
the Dender river is that it is a former tidal river, now cut from the Schelde by a lock gate
(sluis).
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Submitted By:
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Dr Stefan Gödeke WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 23/07/2009
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