Water protection areas cover 3532 km2 or 17,4% of Slovenia’s land surface in 2021. This is a slight increase, compared to 2017, but the goal of protecting the areas of all water sources for public water supply with a regulation on national level, has not been reached yet.
Water cataster, Slovenian Water Agency, 2021 (19. 01. 2021)
Unit | 2017 | 2021 | |
state level regulation | km2 | 1427 | 1509 |
municipal level decree | km2 | 2066 | 2024 |
Water cataster, Slovenian Water Agency, 2021 (19. 01. 2021)
Unit | catchments & VVOI/ I. VO | VVO II/ 2. VO | VVO III/ 3. VO | 4. VO | |
state level regulation | km2 | 5.427 | 30.185 | 115.240 | |
municipal level decree | km2 | 3.543 | 41.631 | 126.728 | 30.450 |
Water cataster, Slovenian Water Agency, 2021 (19. 01. 2021)
Urška Kušar, Slovenian Water Agency