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This website has been designed to provide all stakeholders with up-to-date information on the status of the Dniester River Basin, work of joint basin management bodies, and progress of the Global Environment Facility’s project “Enabling transboundary co-operation and integrated water resources management in the Dniester River Basin”.
“Colours of the Dniester” Award Ceremonies Celebrate Young Voices and Co-operation for the S…Molovata Nouă, Republic of Moldova, 31 May 2026 — Children, young people, educators, local partners and community representatives in the Republic of Moldova gathered for the award ceremony of the 2025 edition of the basin-wide creativity contest “Colours of the Dniester”, highlighting the importance of environmental awareness, youth engagement and transboundary co-operation for the protection […]
6TH MEETING OF THE COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE USE AND PROTECTION OF THE DNISTER RIVER BASINOn December 4-5, 2025, the 6th meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Use and Protection of the Dniester River Basin was held in Ivano-Frankivsk City (Ukraine). Minutes of the 6th Meeting of the Dniester Commission_ENG_final Annex 1_to Minutes of the 6th Meeting of the DC Annex 2_to Minutes of the 6th Meeting of the […]
Draft Agenda of the 6th Meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Use and Protection of the Dniester Rive…The draft Annotated Agenda of the 6th Meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Use and Protection of the Dniester River Basin is available here.
Working Group has been created to study the impact of the the Dnestrovsc Termo – Electrical Plant …In accordance with paragraph 6.1.2 of the minutes of the 5th meeting of the Commission for the Sustainable Use and Protection of the Dniester River Basin dated November 29, 2024, a working group (WG) was created to study the potential impact of the Dnestrovsc Termo – Electrical Plant (Молдавська районна електростанція, Centrala Termoelectrica de la […]
Online awarding ceremony for the winners of the «Dniester Colours» contestThe online awarding ceremony for the winners of the «Dniester Colours» contest took place on the eve of the Dniester Day, on May 23, 2025. The contest, which was uninterruptedly organized since 2008, has been engaging a broad audience from the Dniester River basin in the Republic of Moldova (including Transdniestria) and Ukraine and contributed […]
Winners of the “Colors of the Dniester – 2024” competitionThe evaluation committee summarized the results of the 16th “Colours of the Dniester” art contest, which has been uninterruptedly organized since 2008 and has been engaging a broad audience from the Dniester River basin in the Republic of Moldova (including Transdniestria) and Ukraine. The slogan for the 2024 contest was “For Peace and Sustainable Development […]
The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe that runs along the state border between the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The total length of the Dniester is 1,362 km and its basin area is 72.1 thousand sq.km.
There are 62 towns and 95 townships in the Ukrainian part of the Dniester Basin, and 2 municipalities (Municipias) and 41 towns within the Moldovan part of the Basin, both on the left and right banks of the river. The total population of the Dniester Basin within Ukraine and Moldova is over 7 million people. Over 5 million people live in Ukraine and 2.74 million people in Moldova.
The disastrous floods in 2008 and 2010 in the Dniester Basin reminded once again that the existing flood protection facilities only partially fulfil their functions today. The effectiveness of the modern protection facilities will decline as the floods are expected to become more powerful in the future.
This section will be completed after approval of the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) of the Dniester Basin tentatively in early 2019.
One of the current priorities of the environmental policies of both the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine is to harmonize national legislation with the legislation of the European Union. Both states have taken a number of measures aimed at the gradual harmonization of the laws of both countries in the area of environmental protection, natural resources and environmental security with the relevant EU directives.
The Commission on Sustainable Use and Protection of the Dniester River Basin (the Dniester Commission) was established under the Treaty between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Cooperation in the Field of Protection and Sustainable Development of the Dniester River Basin, which was signed on 29 November 2012.
Plenipotentiaries and their two deputies are appointed to facilitate the implementation of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of Ukraine on the Joint Use and Protection of Border Waters (1994).
The project “Enabling transboundary co-operation and integrated water resources management in the Dniester River Basin” is planned to be implemented in 2017-2020. The project facilitates the implementation of natural and water resource management reforms currently being pursued in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The beneficiaries of this project are the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment of the Republic of Moldova and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine. The project implementation is entrusted to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, Istanbul) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE, Vienna-Kiev-Chisinau), with the support of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE, Geneva).
This section presents a project implementation plan for December 2017 – December 2018.
Final Stakeholders Conference (on-line)
Third meeting of the Project Steering Committee (on-line)
Exchange of experience with the experts of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
