Following recent adoption of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Commission is required to identify, from a list of 32 priority substances (PS), the priority hazardous substances (PHS) that are of particular concern for the aquatic environment. Consideration of the socioeconomic...

Eurowaternet is designed to give a representative assessment of water types and variations in environmental pressures caused by human activity across Europe. It is based on sample stations in existing national monitoring networks and programmes. The need for comparability (comparing like with...

Water pollution caused by wastewater persists despite three decades of effort to clean up European surface waters and despite the requirements of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD). Several EU Member States have yet to satisfy the requirements of the directive. A European...