Following recent adoption of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Commission is required to identify, from …

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 … layer contains similar water bodies. The use of the same criteria for selecting layers and water types across the countries …

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 …

Clean drinking water and good sanitation facilities are largely taken for granted in the European Union. However, much … in September 2002, the EU launched a water initiative. The EU water initiative is designed as a catalyst and a foundation … on which future action can be built to contribute to meeting the millennium development goals (MDGs) for drinking water …

The European Environment Agency has improved a methodology for assessing the quality of river water and to relate the … assessment to evaluating the environmental effects of water-related EU environment policy (e.g. Nitrate Directive, Urban Waste … Water Directive). This report offers experts both a tool to assess changes at water basins as well as an early warning …

The report reviews the challenges facing Europe to adapt to the impacts of climate change on water resources. Water is …, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including those on water availability and flooding, will continue for many …

Climate change will affect water availability differently in Europe u0096 likely a large decrease in Southern Europe …0091consumeru0092 of water, in some countries it will be a larger consumer than current domestic, industrial and … agricultural uses combined. Decreases in glacier ice volumes is affecting runoff into rivers in central Europe u0096 only about one …