The cases for rehabilitation of devastated landscape by People and Water Košice High Tatras Tichý Potok Horný Hričov Michal Kravčík People and Water, Slovakia TŘEBOŇ, June 2009

B L U E A L T E R N A T I V E - alternatíve to Tichý Potok water dam

Water Forest Fire Waterholding Flood Waterholding Water Forest Project Integrated restoration of the High Tatras National Park ecosystem following the wind gale of November 2004 Integrated restoration of the High Tatras National Park ecosystem following the wind gale of November 2004

What happened in November, 19th hectars of forest was damaged, with risks of drying up, hectars of forest was damaged, with risks of drying up, erosion and loss typical climate erosion and loss typical climate

2 nd Phase: Building more than waterholdings on the 40 ha of Water Forest (July – September 2005)

3 rd Phase: Building waterholdings on the 12 ha of burned area (September – October 2005)

INFRARED PICTURE OF THE „WATER FOREST“

Fire waterholdings built at Water Forest,

Water Forest, October 2009

Research report The environmental variables analyses showed increased moisture ecoindex in communities colonizing the inundation zones of water- holding dykes compared to the parallel communities developed outside the dykes. The increase of the moisture ecoindex reached the value 0,61 in the pentamerous Ellenberg scale, this is an everege value of the all current vegetational types. With respect to the high number of analysed dykes, this value is highly significant. For this increase are responsible hygrophilous species like species of the genus bog rush (Juncus), but the grasses like heath wood- rush (Luzula multiflora) or reed bent grass (Calamagrostis villosa). The favourable state of hydrologically managed sites is stressed by biodversity increasing. In 2007, the investigators recorded within 8 hydrologically unmanaged sites (400 m 2 ) 22 species in average, while within two hydrologically managed sites the average number of species was 27, i. e. 5 species more.

After heavy rainfall in Tatranska Lomnica, High Tatras, 1. august 2008

14 Botanic Garden Tatranska Lomnica, 2006

15 Water Sources for Botanic Garden T. Lomnica LEGENDA: 1.Morské oko - zberné a regulačné jazero (nie je nutné) 2.Odberný objekt s prívodom 3.Odberný objekt s prívodom 4a.Zelené Pliesko 4b. Skalnaté Pliesko 5.Štrbské Pliesko 6.Zelený vodopád 7.Skalnatý vodopád 8.Vodopád 9.Centrálne jazierko 10.Močariská 11.VATRA - Vodné atrakcie 1 4a 3 9 4b

Hričov Water Ways, October 2008

Typical hydraulic Infrastructure for rainwater management in villages People´s Water University

Reality People´s Water University

Creation of water sources on the Ski area. People´s Water University

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