Care of Watercourses

The CR is known as the “roof of Europe”. The basic hydrographic network consists of almost 100 000 km of watercourses (with natural and modified corridors).

The Ministry of Agriculture is the founder of five state enterprises River Boards, s. e. and Forests of the Czech Republic, s. e., which perform the role of watercourse administrators. The River Boards, s. e and Forests of the Czech Republic, s. e. enterprises currently manage more than 94 % of the watercourses’ length in the CR. Other bodies are involved in managing almost 6 % of the watercourses’ length, including the Ministry of Defence, the National Park Administrations, municipalities and other natural and legal persons.

Since 2011, the state enterprises River Boards and Forests of the Czech Republic have taken over the care of small watercourses from the former Agricultural Water Management Authority.