From the aspect of the flora and fauna, including the existence of the human, the role of the water has very significant importance. This fact enforces the need of immediate attention accompanied with permanent research and monitoring of the water resources.
In the period of 1975 to 1977, the Water Development Institute of RM has developed cadastral database of the springs. This database contains information, about 4414 springs on the territory of the whole republic.
Using immediate measures all of the important springs in the RM, with yield of 10/100 l/s, were surveyed with direct measurements of the spring capacity. With this study 125 springs were surveyed in the western part of the country which were situated in 17 municipalities.
The previous survey, conducted in 1990 included 907 registered springs out of which 177 were dried up (144 were registered in the cadastre and 33 new registered). This amount is 19.5% dried up springs from the whole. According the parameters and available data in the Water Development Institute of RM and with consulting other experts on this issue, the year 1990 is considered the driest year in this period.
