About us
Our mission
Water Holistic was founded in 2020 by Michal Kravčík, his daughter Dana Kravčík, and two entrepreneurs from the IT sector.
The main goal is to use the full potential of rainwater and water bodies to improve the landscape and the environment.
Based on needs, we introduce specific measures and determine their benefits.
Awards
01 Goldman Prize – The most prestigious award in the field of environment. It is awarded for fundamental scientific research, technical discoveries or for the contribution to human society
02 EKOTOP film award
03 1. Sasawaka Environmental Prize
04 Award of the Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic
05 Innovative act of 2007
06 National Energy Globe Award Slovakia
07 Golden biatec
Who we are?
Michal Kravčík
Founder
Hydrologist, environmentalist, and Goldman Prize winner who developed a methodology for calculating and quantifying the benefits of rainwater retention measures.
He worked at the Institute of Hydrology and the Institute of Landscape Ecology and Hydraulics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Co-founder of WaterHolistic, where he provides integrated landscape and water management. It also provides consulting and educational services on effective strategies for sustainable watersheds and landscape restoration.
Danka Kravčíková
Program director
Program director and mapping and landscape survey expert. Its key topic is the analysis of the rainwater runoff of the territory and the design of rain gardens. Her knowledge of project financing and budget forecasting makes her a key member of the successful implementation of IVM projects.
Martin Kováč
Principal advisor, partner
Principal Advisor to Water Holistic on public administration, legislation, financial and incentive instruments.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic from 2022 to 2023. Author of the holistic certification system “Carbon and Water Bank”, whose EU trademarks and certification marks were registered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic in 2023. Compiler of the White Paper “Water for Climate Healing – a New Water Paradigm” with an international expert team, presented at the Second UN 2023 Water Conference in New York. Author of the 2021 of the circular bio-economy concept “Soil – the Carbon and Water Bank of the Landscape”. Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Territorial Self-Government, Integrated River Basin and Landscape Management between 2010 and 2012, responsible for the Programme for Landscape Revitalisation and Integrated River Basin Management of the Slovak Republic
Dušan Trávniček
IT specialist
IT specialist with more than 15 years of experience in programming and project management.
Zuzana Mulkerin
Consultant
Versatile project manager with experience in cooperation with famous names such as Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Jacobs Suchard or Pepsi-Cola. It operates simultaneously in Slovakia and New Jersey. She gives us her many years of experience with the aim of taking projects to a higher level.
Highlights
Princ Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Vysoké Tatry, 2008
Michal Kravčík meeting Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Tony Blair, Londýn
Michal Kravčík meeting Tony Blair in London on Ceremony EU-US prize for democracy
Expremiérka Iveta Radičová, november 2011
Meeting with former prime minister Iveta Radicova
Hillary Clinton, Biely dom, 1999
Meeting with Hillary Clinton in White house
Lídri z National forest university in Kangwon, Južná Kórea, 2015
Leaders from National forest university in Kangwon, South Korea
Water Symposium, Tamera, 2015
Michal Kravčík speaking at Tamera water symposium
Bernd Muller počas Water Symposium, Tamera, 2015
Michal Kravčík with Bernd Muller during Water Symposium Tamera
Havel, kľúč k demokracii
Meeting with Václav Havel
Senátorka Pavley, Sacramento, máj 2014
Michal Kravčík meeting Senator Pavley in Sacramento
Michal Kováč, Bratislava, september 1998
Meeting with president Michal Kováč
Wrote about us
Michal Kravčík - Global Earth Repair Foundation
8. april 2022
Michal Kravčík: Only water can save our planet
11. august 2018
Michal Kravčík: Water is life
20. april 2014
Videos about rainwater, the new water paradigm and projects
Films that were inspired by
the new water paradigm or mention the co-founder of Water Holistic Michal Kravčík
Partnerships and collaborating organizations
Our methods and know-how are used in projects on 4 continents, we cooperate with organizations and partners in Australia, South Korea, the USA, Great Britain, Poland, India and many others.
References
Publications
Michal Kravčík and Danka Kravčíková are co-authors of many scientific articles and publications.
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES:
1. THE SUBSTANTIAL ROLE OF WATER IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM OF THE EARTH” (to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on 7 – 18 December 2009) by Jan Pokorny, Michal Kravcik, Juraj Kohutiar and Martin Kovac, https://www.nsfarming.com/Media/2009-Discussion_Paper_Copenhagen_04_08_09.pdf
2. Water for an integrative climate paradigm, Juraj Kohutiar and Michal Kravcik Published Online:February 25, 2011pp 298-310 https://doi.org/10.1504/IJW.2010.038725
3. Costs and benefits of landscape-based water retention measures as nature-based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Land Degradation & Development, Sušnik, J., Masia, S., Kravčík, M., Pokorný, J., & Hesslerová, P. (2022). 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4373
4. Kravčík, M., Gabriš, P., & Kravčíková, D. (2021). Projects implemented and lessons learnt from the new water paradigm. In W. Leal Filho, J. M. Leutz, & D. Ayal (Eds.), Handbook of climate change management Springer, https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-57281-5_132
5. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY AND GLOBAL WARMING – Michal Kravcik, Jaroslav Tesliar, Jan Hronsky, Robert Zvara, Montreal 2001, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Hossain-2/publication/276605051_Exotic_Plants_and_their_Usage_by_Local_Communities_in_the_Sitakunda_Botanical_Garden_and_Eco-Park_Chittagong_Bangladesh/links/57daa4c008ae4e6f18437497/Exotic-Plants-and-their-Usage-by-Local-Communities-in-the-Sitakunda-Botanical-Garden-and-Eco-Park-Chittagong-Bangladesh.pdf#page=45
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Between floods and droughts – a manual for integrated flood-prevention [in Slovak] ; Michal Kravčík, Juraj Kohutiar, Martin Kováč, et al.; Poprad: 2008. ISBN: 978-80-970051-8-4; Pages: 101. Info: http://www.ludiaavoda.sk/?page_id=16
2. Water for the recovery of the climate – a new water paradigm; [in Slovak, English, Korean, Polish, Persian, Italian, Arabic and France in press] Michal Kravčík, Jan Pokorný, Juraj Kohutiar, Martin Kováč, Eugen Tóth; Košice: 2007 (Slovak edition) and 2008 (English Edition: ISBN: 978-80-89089-71-0); Available for download also from: http://www.vodnaparadigma.sk/indexsk.php?web=./home/homesk.html
3. Water for the third millenium – don’t hurt water so that it does not hurt you [in Slovak]; Michal Kravčík et al.; Košice: 2000; ISBN: 80-968031-3-1; pages: 160.
4. Green without Blue is only Yellow, [in Slovak] ; Michal Kravčík, Peter Pačaj, Košice, 2006, Pages 47, ISBN 80969546-2-8
5. Water without borders – Water for the climatic stabilisation of the regions [in Slovak and Ukrajinian]; Michal Kravčík, Juraj Kohutiar, Martin Kováč, Pavol Varga, Michal Pjecha, Ján Hronský, Peter Straka, Monika Oravcová, Dana Kravčíková, Košice: 2010. ISBN: 978-80-89089-96-3, Pages: 231.
6. After us the Desert and Deluge? [in Slovak, English, Korean]: Michal Kravčík, Juraj Kohutiar, Martin Kováč, Pavol Šuty, Miroslav Hríb, Dana Kravčíková, Košice 2012, IBSN: 978-80-970278-3-2, Pages 231
7. Water for climate recovery in the Ondavka river basin [in Slovak]: Danka Kravčíková, Pavol Varga, Ján Hronský, Michal Gazovič, Michal Kravčík, Jaroslava Pajtinková, Miroslav Hríb, Pavol Šuty, Košice 2013, ISBN 978-80-970735-2-7, Pages 142
8. Restoring Water to Preserve Our Climate [in Slovak, English, France]: René Durand, Tristan False, Philip Franses, Daniel Hofnung, Michal Kravčík, Danka Kravčíkova, Jarka Pajtinková, Minni Jain, Jean-Claude Oliva, Anne Phillips, Rafaela Scheiffer, Emmanuelle Trouslard, Košice 2019, Pages 54
9. Využívanie environmentálneho monitoringu v strategickom plánovaní miest a obcí [in Slovak], Cziroková, N., Kravčíková D., Kravčík, M., Paal, Zaujec, V., Bratislava, 2021, ISBN 978–80–570–2882–6, Pages 95
10. Manual: “Let’s renew our forest / farmland / land“ [in Slovak]: Danka Kravčíková, Michal Kravčík, Martin Maršalko, Peter Bujňák, Lucia Macíková, Košice 2019, ISBN 978-80-973572-0-7, Pages 54
11. Return of lost water [in Slovak]: Danka Kravčíková, Michal Gazovič, Michal Kravčík, Miroslav Hríb, Pavol Šuty, Mariana Dachová, Prešov 2020, ISBN 978-80-973572-0-7, Pages 173
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