06 Jun 2018
We might (or might not) be leaving the EU, but there’s still plenty going on across the Channel. Last week, the MEP Water Group in cooperation with the World Water Assessment Programme of UNESCO, hosted a public session for its 2018 United Nations World Water Development Report on ‘Nature-based solutions for water’ at the European […]
06 Jun 2018
The European Commission has published its latest implementation report on the Nitrate Directive. It shows only a slight improvement in agricultural nitrates pollution. The report concludes that nitrate levels in groundwater and surface freshwaters have “slightly improved” since 2008. Nitrates were still above 50 mg/l at over 13% of monitoring stations 2012-2015, compared to 14% […]
29 May 2018
The European Environment Agency (EEA) reports that 85% of swimming sites across Europe monitored in 2017 met the European Union’s highest and most stringent ‘excellent’ quality standards for waters mostly free from pollutants. The results give a good indication where holiday makers can find the best quality bathing waters this summer. Nearly all 21.801 bathing […]
08 May 2018
Bob Earll – There are some stories I miss. This is a little late but highlights both conservation threats to dolphins but also the failures of management with regard to the European bass fishery. The fisheries for bass which have led to draconian cuts in the recreational catch still seem to be damaging fisheries and […]
26 Mar 2018
The Easac study, Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation, looked at new data and models focused on a potential slowdown of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, due to an influx of freshwater from melted ice sheets in Greenland. Global floods and extreme rainfall events have surged by more than 50% this decade, and are […]
06 Dec 2017
According to a new report by EurEau, the European federation of National Associations of Water Services, €45 Billion is invested annually in water treatment and delivery around Europe. However this is unevenly distributed amongst European member states, and the European water sector is in need of greater investment in infrastructure overall. Aging drinking water networks, waste water collection systems and waste […]
14 Nov 2017
The European Commission has published a Roadmap for the upcoming Fitness Check of the Water Framework Directive and its daughter directives as well as the Floods Directive. The fitness Check will look at the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and EU added value of the Directives. This will include an assessment of the potential for regulatory simplification and […]
07 Nov 2017
The European Commission has launched an online public consultation as the first phase of the re-evaluation process for the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive – with a planned completion date of Q1 2019. The latest figures show that 95% of the EU’s urban waste water is collected and over 85% is treated according to the Directive’s […]
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