DEVELOPMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES IN USING THE HYDROGRAPHIC POTENTIAL OF THE ŢIBLEŞ MOUNTAINS

Gheorghe Hognogi, Gabriel Nicula, Timea Benedek

Babeş – Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Cluj – Napoca, Romania

Abstract

By their coordinates and morphometric features, the mountain areas imprint significant changes to the meteo-climatic parameters in terms of increasing their values. Therefore, as a response to the pluvial input, the hydrographic network in the mountain area is dense, its runoff is high and its qualitative features are superior to the river network in the lower relief units. The Ţibleş Mountains are no exception from this law, with a dense hydrographic network, with significant river flows and adequate drinking qualities (in this respect, the petrographic structure also plays a very important role). The use of this potential began with the emergence of the first human communities at the periphery of the study area. Slight and fully compliant with the laws of nature at first , nowadays still insufficient, but accompanied by pollution, this use of the river water potential requires a radical methodological change in order to achieve a higher efficiency, with minimum negative consequences. The lower the degree of anthropisation, the more feasible this desideratum is, as the area is suitable for engineering river works to support some water and wastewater utility needs and some clean economic activities.

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