Improvement of flood management system

- The disastrous flood events of the past ten years have caused numerous human casualties and the material damage reached unprecedented levels. Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine and Romania, inspired by the successful Dutch/German flood information project, Noah, were taken the initiative for a concerted action to reduce the effects of floods in their territories.The main target of the MOSES project is to contribute to the development, implementation and management of a unified computer-based flood information system in the entire region.
- For Ukraine and Romania there is firstly a need to upgrade their hydrological measurement stations. Slovakia’s main interest is to select an information system, which is compatible with the Hungarian FMIS. Hungary focuses on flood hazard mapping and has as lowland the profit of an adequate flood information system in the whole region.The German partner shows interest to implement the FLIWAS flood information system on its territory.