During the floods that struck Southern Bohemia in August 329 communities (out of a total 623) were inundated and 18 000 inhabitants were evacuated from their homes, and 6 people lost their lives. The flood waters completely destroyed approximately 30 homes, and dozens more have been set for demolition. Several hundred more buildings are under continued observation. A total of 30 bridges were completely destroyed and 15 were seriously damaged. A large number of sewage treatment plants were destroyed, as well as long sections of railway line, and waterways and canalisation in most of the affected communities were damaged. A number of schools are located close to reservoirs, where dams burst, and are close to other waterways. Preliminary calculations of the costs related to repairing the damage caused by the floods have reached 15 420 million Czk.

The landscape of the Třeboň region is uniquely characterised by its fish-pond basin dissected by the meandering valley cut by the Lužnice Riverbed, lined by banks bordered with oaks and water canals, rich in vegetation, which presents a network of man-made bodies of water, streams and fish-ponds, that is altogether unique in terms of the extent and manner it was carried out. What was originally an unfriendly territory of inaccessible marshes and wetlands evolved from the period of the Middle Ages onward into a cultivated system of masterly coordinated technical and hydrological modifications, leading to the formation of a fully functional and economically prosperous inhabitable region, with a strong natural and culturally-historical value.

The entire network is founded on ponds, connected to one another by canals built along the Lužnice River in a southwest direction between the towns of Třeboň and Veselí nad Lužnicí. The character and complexion of the Třeboň landscape stems from the systematic modifications introduced into the region by Štěpánek Netolický (1460-1539) and Jakub Krčín of Jelčan (1535-1604).

The fish-pond network of Třeboň was declared a national cultural monument by the Ministry of Culture in 2002. This is the highest form of monumental protection at the present time and includes monuments previously declared as cultural monuments - the Golden Canal, which is the backbone of a large part of the Třeboň fish-pond network, the New River - a man-made canal set up to protect Rožmberk against the effects of flooding, the Old River (the part of the Lužnice Riverbed before Rožmberk), and two of the most well-known and larges ponds - Rožmberk and Svět.

The city of Olomouc has in recent years experienced some fundmental changes related to the supply of heating. This article recalls the interesting history and development of the system of centralised heat-supply (SCZT) in Olomouc.

An important, but unfortunately still underestimated burden on the environment is the presence of unexploded ammunition in the landscape and in bodies of water. In the recent period of flooding a great deal of attention was paid the material leakages, especially chemical leaks, but hardly any mention was made of the phenomenon of washed up, unexploded ammunition. Nonetheless it represents a far more dangerous threat than comtamination by petrol products - exploding ammunition can cause fatal casualties and at the very least serious injury - and human life and health are irreplaceable values.