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If land reclamation systems are malfunctioning or not functioning at all, unpredictable floods may occur, house cellars flooded, wet agricultural land may be formed, and floods will cause crop damage and forest degradation. It is only a part of the troubles that can threaten Latvia because the land reclamation in our country has been neglected for a long time. Although the public authorities in charge do not possess full and reliable information on the condition of land reclamation systems and there is no future vision on the development of land reclamation systems either, one invested more than 230 million euros of the European Union funds and state budget funds in renovation and maintenance of land reclamation systems since 2007.
Neither the Ministry of Agriculture nor the state-owned “Zemkopības ministrijas nekustamie īpašumi” Ltd has a forward-looking vision on the development of the system, the plan for the renovation of land reclamation systems where all national and federal land reclamation systems would be assessed and prioritised. The selection of land reclamation systems for renovation and maintenance work is non-transparent. Information on the selection process and the systems planned to be restored and maintained is not publicly available, which prevents landowners from planning the renovation or reconstruction of land reclamation systems promptly.
