World Water Day 2023 – Accelerating Change

Everything changes and your water services providers need to keep up with changes in order to provide safe water services
Everything changes and your water services providers need to keep up with changes in order to provide safe water services
The proposed Critical Raw Materials Regulation offers welcome safeguards from pollution for water bodies but fails to address the needs of critical entities and falls short in its circularity ambitions.
The polluter-pays principle should remain at the core of the Union’s wastewater treatment legislation
EurEau has signed a joint statement, supporting EPR in the proposed revision of the UWWTD
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EurEau welcomes the enlargement of the Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) lists as a prerequisite to providing safe and affordable drinking water services to consumers and as an effective means of protecting the environment.
The European Commission and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) have published a report on last year’s ecological disaster in the river Oder, where 360 tonnes of fish were killed by a toxic algal bloom.
EurEau welcomes the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive concerning urban wastewater treatment (recast), as its more ambitious objectives will align better with the overarching UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal, while enhancing the governance of the wastewater sector and people’s access to sanitation.
The European Parliament’s Rapporteur for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR) published their report on the proposed legislation this week, highlighting that polluters should be financially responsible for any environmental damage they incur.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published the details of the proposed PFAS group restriction comprising more than 10 000 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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