{"id":134640,"date":"2024-10-15T09:10:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T06:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/only-one-third-of-europes-surface-water-qualifies-as-good-or-better-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T06:10:36","slug":"only-one-third-of-europes-surface-water-qualifies-as-good-or-better-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/only-one-third-of-europes-surface-water-qualifies-as-good-or-better-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Only one-third of Europe\u2019s surface water qualifies as good or better, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134640\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Only about one-third of Europe\u2019s surface water is in good health or better, a report has found, despite an EU target first set for 2015 to bring all bodies of water up to good quality. About 37% of Europe\u2019s surface waters qualified as having at least a good ecological status and 29% a good chemical status in 2021, according to data from 19 member countries compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA).<\/p>\n<p>The original deadline for the EU target has been extended to 2027 but data suggests this is on track to be missed by a wide margin. \u201cThe health of Europe\u2019s waters is not good,\u201d said Leena Yl\u00e4-Mononen, the EEA\u2019s executive director. \u201cOur waters face an unprecedented set of challenges that threatens Europe\u2019s water security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report found that farms had the biggest effect on Europe\u2019s surface water and groundwater, drawing out too much water and pumping in too many pollutants, along with the impact of coal-fired power plants that spew out toxic particles. Parts of western and central Europe such as Germany and the Netherlands had a particularly high share of water bodies in poor health, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>It highlighted the \u201ccatastrophic\u201d die-off of fish in the Oder River in 2022 that was mainly caused by pollution from salt mines and nutrients from urban wastewater. The EU introduced sweeping rules on water management almost 25 years ago that sent member countries racing to improve the quality of their bodies of water. But efforts over the last decade \u201chave rarely translated into improved status overall\u201d, the EEA found, in the most thorough assessment of the continent\u2019s waterways to date.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that Europe\u2019s groundwater was in better health than its surface water, with 91% rated as having at least a good quantitative status and 77% achieving a good chemical status. On both metrics, groundwater quality had improved by just one percentage point since 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/oct\/14\/european-environment-agency-report-surface-water-quality\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/oct\/14\/european-environment-agency-report-surface-water-quality\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/only-one-third-of-europes-surface-water-qualifies-as-good-or-better-study-finds\/\">Only one-third of Europe\u2019s surface water qualifies as good or better, study finds<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[696,16503,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-europe","tag-surface-water-quality","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}