THE DIVERSION OF THE DANUBE´S WATERS IN SLOVAKIA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR ENVIROMENTAL AGGRESSION?
Abstract
In the 1960s the socialist Goverments of Czechoslovakia and Hungary designed a largescale hydraulic-hydroelectnc project. The work involved the diversion of the Danube from its natural course to an artificial canal built several kilometers to the North of the current intemational border located in the center of the nver. When the possible environmental nsks were assessed, Hungary withdrew from the project and oppossed its realization. Slovaquia has already finished it by itself, since this country considers it to be vital for his economy. In addition to the ecologicai problems it may cause, it has also provoked a geo-political conflict, which involves two opposing conceptions of the development.Downloads
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