Water protection public service
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Water protection public service whose tasks are above all cleaning and prevention of pollution of aquatic and coastal land in the case of sudden pollution due to a natural or other disaster.
Defines some tasks for obligatory national public services – cleaning the level of inland waters and prevention of pollution of aquatic and coastal lands of inland waters in the case of sudden pollution due to a natural or other kind of disaster. The water protection service operates on the whole area of the Republic of Slovenia.
The activities of the water protection service include:
- Monitoring sudden pollution of inland waters
- Watch service to ensure readiness to intervene in a sudden and outstanding pollution of inland water
- Elaboration of restoration programmes and plans to clean the inland waters
- Implementing measures for cleaning the level of inland waters, prevention of pollution of aquatic and coastal lands and implementing measures to eliminate the consequences in the case of sudden and outstanding pollution due to natural or other disasters
- Collecting, registering and keeping documentation on sudden and outstanding pollution of inland waters and regular reporting.