Access to water for the Danube fishermen

Context and issues

The Danube Delta is the best-preserved protected zone in Europe. It spreads throughout two countries and ends in the Black Sea in Romania. The Danube Delta is a vast humid land with lakes, ponds, creeks, and channels; it includes natural zones where no economic activities can take place, ecological rehabilitation zones, zones where economic activities are authorised, and buffer zones where eco-tourism is being developed. Due to its ecological importance, the economic and social challenges the region is facing, require a specific sustainable development strategy.

Access to drinking water and bathrooms is thus a real development issue on which the sustainability of economic activities (traditional fishing) and eco-tourism depend.

The project aims to equip the zone with access to drinking water and a dry toilet cabin, without these installations having an impact or the environment or causing visual pollution.

This would be in line with minimum sanitary standards, improving the living and working conditions of fishermen. This would also improve the accommodation conditions for tourists. The project is funded and implemented within the framework of the Social Challenge of the European Union.