EU Water Framework Directive and Stockholm Convention Can we reach the targets for priority substances and persistent organic pollutants? |
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Authors: | Maria Fuerhacker |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | Background, aim and scope Water is a renewable resource and acceptable quality is important for human health, ecological and economic reasons, but human
activity can cause great damage to the natural aquatic environment. Managing the water cycle in a sustainable way is the key
to protect natural resources and human health. On a global level, the microbiological contamination of water sources is a
major problem in connection with poverty and the United Nations Millennium Development Declaration is an important initiative
to handle this problem. In terms of environmental health, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) circulate globally; as they
travel long distances, they are found in remote areas far from their original source of application and can cause damage wherever
they move to. On a global scale, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) issued the Stockholm Convention to reduce POPs;
in the European Union (EU), one intention of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is to reach the good chemical status of waters;
beside these regulations, there are other directives in support of these goals. The aim of this paper is to discuss whether
the Stockholm Convention and the WFD allows meeting the targets of protection of human and environmental health, which are
established in the different directives and how could we approach the targets. |
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