Regional Water Management Boards
Practical reorganization of Polish water management started at the beginning of the nineties. The amendment of the Water Act of 1990 authorised the Minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Forestry to create organizational units which would be responsible for water management of the hydrographic structure. In 1991 seven Regional Water Management Boards were created.
The basic scope of works included defining the conditions of the basin water use as well as the preparation of water resources management plans and programmes, basin water protection and flood prevention. Regional Water Management Directorates which had been created in order to manage water owned by the State Treasury operated at the same time as the Regional Boards. On January 1, 2000 Regional Directorates and Regional Boards merged and the new units shared the tasks of both old institutions. Further water management reforms were planned to be executed on the basis of the new Water Act. Since 2001 seven Regional Water Management Boards have been in charge of water management.
On July 18, 2001 a new Water Act was passed introducing water resources management which included the division of the country into basin areas and water regions. The act crowned the long-term process which led to the creation of a stable water management system in Poland.
Respective Regional Water Management Boards operate in the following water regions:
- Gdańsk - water region of the Lower Vistula,
- Gliwice - water region of the Little Vistula, water region of the Upper Odra, water region of Czadeczka,
- Kraków - water region of the Upper Vistula, water region of Czarna Orawa, water region of Dniestr,
- Poznań - water region of Warta,
- Szczecin - water region of the Lower Odra and Przymorze Zachodnie, water region of Ucker,
- Warszawa - water region of the Central Vistula, water region of Jarft, water region of Niemen, water region of Łyna and Węgorapa, water region of Świeża,
- Wrocław - water region of the Central Odra, water region of Morawa, water region of Izera, water region of Łaba and Ostrożnica (Upa), water region of Metuje, water region of Orlica.
RZGW Gdańsk
Direktor: Halina Czarnecka
Rogaczewskiego 9/19 Street
80-804 Gdańsk, Poland
phone: +48 58 326 18 88
fax: +48 58 326 18 89
RZGW Gliwice
Direktor: Franciszek Pistelok
Sienkiewicza 2 Street
44-100 Gliwice, Poland
phone: +48 32 777 49 51
fax: +48 32 777 49 99
RZGW Kraków
Direktor: Jerzy Grela
Marszałka J. Piłsudskiego 22 Street
31-109 Kraków, Poland
phone: +48 12 423 21 41
fax: +48 12 423 21 53
RZGW Poznań
Direktor: Bogdan Płuciennik
Szewska 1 Street
61-760 Poznań, Poland
phone: +48 61 851 51 39
fax: +48 61 852 57 31
RZGW Szczecin
Direktor: Andrzej Kreft
Tama Pomorzańska 13A Street
70-030 Szczecin, Poland
phone: +48 91 441 12 00
fax: +48 91 441 13 00
RZGW Warszawa
Direktor: Leszek Bagiński
Zarzecze 13B Street
03-194 Warszawa, Poland
phone: +48 22 587 02 10
fax: +48 22 587 02 04
RZGW Wrocław
Direktor: Stefan Bartosiewicz
C. K. Norwida 34 Street
50-950 Wrocław, Poland
phone: +48 71 328 41 38
fax: +48 71 328 50 48
