Poland
On 6 July 2001, in Warsaw, a partnership of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Global Water Partnership (GWP), academics, and civil engineers, in co-operation with the people, businesses and government of Poland, launched the 'Overview´ Report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) - in their own language. According to officials, the Polish version of the Report makes the findings and recommendations of the WCD available and useful to a wider constituency of more than 2,000 individuals planning to use the Report to turn dam controversies of the past into development consensus for the future.
A multi-criteria options assessment based on the recommendations of the WCD was carried out to assess the alternatives available to secure the safety of the 1970 Wloclawek dam project, on the lower Vistula River. Alternative options being considered are 1) constructing an additional dam, 2) maintaining the existing dam, 3) decommissioning the existing dam (see http://www.wwf.pl/).
