WATER RETENTION MEASURES AS AN ELEMENT OF ADAPTIVE MEASURES TO TACKLE THE CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CITY OF TREBIŠOV, SLOVAKIA

Abstract

Many countries are currently facing environmental problems related to climate change. Adaptive measures that reduce landscape vulnerability and increase the adaptive capacity of natural and man-made ecosystems to the current or expected negative effects of climate change are a response to the demand for its mitigation. Selected adaptation measures can be implemented as a system of measures aimed at improving the hydroclimatic conditions of the landscape, especially by influencing its water retention function. The paper focuses on the design of water retention measures in the area of the secondary school in the town of Trebišov, located in the Lower Zemplín region in Slovakia. The proposed water retention measures are implemented by retaining and draining rainwater during heavy rainfall from paved areas and collecting areas of roofs. The results of this study are newly built drainage pipe systems with the creation of retention structures of rain gardens, infiltration trenches, vegetation walls and rainwater collection tanks for watering, including permeable areas of vegetation blocks.