Waters

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Because of water protection as precious and irreplaceable liquid a great portion of the Low Tatras is proclaimed a protected water-management area. The aim is ensure water quality also during economic use of the territory as it contains several significant fresh water sources. Out of the most important ones we can mention risers in the territory Jelenec-Donovaly designated for the Zvolen basin, some at the end of the Bystrá valley for Brezno with its surroundings, in the Demänovská Valley for the Liptov region, in the surroundings of Liptovská Teplička for the Poprad region.

In the region of deep geological faults on the mountain perimeter a number of important mineral sources rise. There are /or used to be/ spas built up nearby the most significant ones - Korytnica and Liptovský Ján. Some other used sources are situated in Moštenica, Hiadeľ, Jasenie, Mýto pod Ďumbierom, Jarabá, Beňuša, Bacúch, Liptovská Lúžna, Liptovská Štiavnica, Liptovské Sliače, Vyšná Boca and Malužiná.

Due to Quaternary glaciations of the Low Tatras some tarns have been preserved. Their measure cannot be compared with the High Tatran tarns, only the biggest one Vrbické tarn with its area of 0.68 ha situated at the back of the Demänovská Valley below the north slopes of Chopok has a "Tatran" character. Others are small; some even disappear during a dry period. All around the year the water remains in two tarns in the Bystrá Valley and in Litvor tarn in the Ludárová Valley. In Lukové tarn in the north from Chopok, in a tarn in the north from Krížske ridge, in a tarn in the north from Chabenec and a little Latiborské tarn a maximum amount of water occurs in spring after snow melting and by the end of summer they dry out.

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