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Europe's freshwaters are affected by water scarcity, droughts, floods and physical modifications. Many water bodies are … at risk of failing to meet the aim of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) to achieve good status by 2015. Future … policies should encourage demand management through actions such as increasing water efficiency. In addition, water management …
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Data and information for this report were provided by twelve countries to enable the Agency to successfully test the proposed EUROWATERNET methodology for demonstrating the state and trends of groundwater in selected groundwater bodies with reference to nitrate, nitrite, ammonium and dissolved...
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This report describes the work carried out by the European Topic Centre on Inland Waters in 1999 and highlights the progress made.
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Die Absicht dieses Berichts ist es, Ministern, Beamten, politischen Entscheidungsträgern und sonstigen Personen, die ein Interesse am Schutz unserer Gewässer haben, einen allgemeinen Überblick über die wichtigsten Wasserprobleme in Europa zu geben. Er ist eine Zusammenfassung der Arbeit der...
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protect our waters a broad overview of the major water issues in Europe. It represents a distillation of the work undertaken …
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protect our waters a broad overview of the major water issues in Europe. It represents a distillation of the work undertaken …
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use of water in Europe. This report describes the second part of that assessment and looks in particular at demand …-side management of water across Europe. It is intended that the report will serve as a source of comparative data to support the …
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This report gives an overview of the main natural and artificial causes and impacts of floods and droughts in western and central European countries, as well as policy responses. It aims to help policy- and decision-makers in their work on preventing and managing such extreme events, as well as...
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The assessment of potential losses of agricultural fertilizers to waters require prior calculation of nutrient balance (surplus). This study shows how the use of CORINE land cover allows calculating comparable surplus values at the river catchment level, despite heterogeneity and high degree of...
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As a part of the work programme of the European Environment Agency (EEA), the Norwegian Institute for Water Research … (NIVA) has compiled a first version of a European marine database 'Marinebase'. This database on water quality parameters … covers aggregated data related to eutrophication (nutrients, chlorophyll and oxygen in bottom water) and harmful substances …
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