Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin: Perspectives from the Danubian Countries

The Danube River Basin is shared by 19 countries and there is no river basin in the world shared by so many nations. Europe’s second largest river basin with a total 2 area of about 800,000 km is also home to 83 million people of different cultures, languages and historical backgrounds. Management of common water sources and overcoming difficulties caused by droughts and floods requires co-operation between the countries. In 1971 these c- mon interests stimulated the hydrologists of – at th...