THE FIRST EXPERIENCE IN THE USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHOLOGIES FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF RIVER EROSION AND SEDIMENTS IN MOLDOVA

The coordination of marine waters protection and joint reduction of their pollution is one of the major world challenges. In turn, on a national level, the governments have to assess quantities and types of water pollutants in their countries as a part of implementing the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)1 . There are a number of scientific studies that have been conducted in Europe and outside showing that the most marine pollution comes from land based sources, and river watersheds are among them. It is also anticipated that in the absence of mitigation measures any region with large rivers can be considered as a substantial contributor to marine pollution. However, the scale of such contribution, along with the size and distribution of the pollutants, remains to be systematically quantified. Such quantification will aid in mapping both sources and amounts of river systems’ pollutants, thus providing an additional knowledge base for the MSFD implementation in terms of their emissions into the marine environment on the whole.