Application of multicriteria analysis on water quality management – The Drava river case study

Water management in river basins relies on sustaining all stakeholder objectives and defining adequate solutions in order to meet the objectives in a compromise manner. Since a water system is evidently complex, it is very difficult to recognize all relationships among system elements and mutual influences between this and other systems as well as to evaluate all possible solutions. Multicriteria analysis of water quality management of the upper Drava basin pointed out to methodological, social and political advantages of such approach to this very complex problem. The advantage of adopted methodology is data transparency, which enables anyone to check if the parameters are correctly assessed.