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In its latest report, World’s Top 10 Rivers at Risk, released ahead of World Water Day (March 22), World Wide Fund lists the Danube among the top ten rivers that are fast dying as a result of dams, pollution and climate change.

Canalisation and construction of dykes and dams over the last 200 years has led to the loss of over 80 per cent of the original floodplain area along the Danube and its main tributaries, according to WWF. As part of the EU’s Trans-European Network for Transport (TEN-T), new infrastructures are planned that threaten many of the Danube’s most valuable areas, such as the Wachau Valley in Austria or the middle and lower Danube in Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. Valuable wetlands along 1,000km of the river could face destruction if plans for the Pan-European Corridor 7 become reality.

Further canalising the river threatens not only loss of biodiversity and wetlands and increasing problems associated with flood management, but also draws down water tables, risking access to drinking water for 20 million people in the region. “National and EU plans threaten to turn the living Danube into a shipping canal. This is expensive and unnecessary. We need to start fitting our ships to the river, not our river to the ships,” said dr. orieta Hulea, WWF Coordinator for the Lower Danube Green Corridor.