Proekologiczne systemy gospodarowania wodą w obszarach wiejskich

The waters is a very important factor in the agricultural landscape. The proper water management can help to minimalize the effect of agriculture on natural flora and fauna and it allows increasing the biological diversity. The water management should be adjusted to the type of agricultural landscape. Poland have poor water resources. What is more they are unevenly distributed in space and time. Human activity has made water balance even worse in many cases and increase in the frequency of extreme phenomena such as floods and draughts. One of the methods to improve water balance is increasing of the potential retention abilities of small basins. The studies and approximate calculations carried out show that treatment consisting in the increase of swampy areas, number of water pools and small water reservoirs, damming up of eroded rivers and canals, improvement of the soil structure, inhibition of outflows from melioration systems, etc. can significantly increase water supply both for the natural environment and for the economic and communal needs.