Water management structures in Kaunas district

Vandentvarka – tai planinga veikla, nukreipta į paviršinių ir požeminių vandens resursų ekonomiškai pagrįstą naudojimą, jų apskaitą ir apsaugą, visų vandenų poveikio aplinkai ir visuomenei valgymą ir kontrolę bei kokybės gerinimą. Esant sudėtingai ekonominei situacijai, šalis yra nepajėgi įrengti naujų sausinimo ir drėkinimo sistemų. Valstybė gali skirti tik dalį lėšų, reikalingų vandentvarkos statinių eksploatavimui. Dėl šios priežasties iškyla realus pavojus kai kurių vandentvarkos sistemos statinių išlikimui ir jų ateitis tampa miglota. Bendroji valstybės politika numato šių sistemų išsaugojimą, todėl šiam tikslui kasmet skiriama kiek įmanoma daugiau lėšų. Nors ir kasmet lėšų melioracijos statinių priežiūrai ir remontui skiriama vis daugiau, tačiau jų neužtenka net svarbiausiems darbams atliktiIn Lithuania there are established amelioration systems, hydraulic engineering equipment, operating roads established long ago. Most part of drainage and cultivation technique works were carried out in 1960 – 1995. Most of them are already not worn out, don‘t correspond with modern requirements. So at present when the draining and tilling of new lands in our country is nearly not planned, the works of reconstruction and improvement of drainage systems will have to be performed. Part of the water management equipment will be returned to the owners. In 1998 when it became obvious that the state of the drainage systems differs immensely from the situation indicated in the accountancy operative, but insufficiently detailed evaluation of these systems was performed. So in 2000 a more exact and minute inventorying of the state of drainage systems was carried out. The aim of the paper is to analyse the possible prospects of village water management system reorganization. Tasks of the investigation: 1. To analyse the volumes of the amelioration works and sources of financing of interwar Lithuania. 2. To establish the tendencies of the change of the building and reconstruction of amelioration equipment. 3. To compute the annual wear norm of amelioration equipment. 4. To forecast the state of amelioration equipment in the future with the help of Trend method. 5. To analyse the possible sources of amelioration works financing. In this paper the tendencies or change of amelioration and water management, their users and owners Kaunas District was chosen. Its general characteristics of drained land and water management equipments reflect the general situation in Lithuania as wellŽemės ūkio akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta