Using high-frequency water quality data to assess sampling strategies for the EU Water Framework Directive

Using high-frequency water quality data to assess sampling strategies for the EU Water Framework Directive

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires that the ecological and chemical status of water bodies in Europe should be assessed, and action taken where possible to ensure that at least “good” quality is attained in each case by 2015. This paper is concerned with the accuracy and precision with which chemical status in rivers can be measured given certain sampling strategies, and how this c...

Combined sewer overflow quality and EU Water Framework Directive

The Community strategy against pollution of surface water control policy was set out by the European Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC which lays down new procedures for the identification of substances and development of control measures. After the decision n° 2455/2001/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2001 setting out the first list of 33 substances or groups...

Water Regulation and Irrigated Agriculture Under the EU Water Framework Directive

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Biota monitoring and the Water Framework Directive—can normalization overcome shortcomings in sampling strategies?

We compare the results of different monitoring programs regarding spatial and temporal trends of priority hazardous substances of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). Fish monitoring data for hexachlorobenzene (HCB), mercury (Hg), and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) sampled in German freshwaters between the mid-1990s and 2014 were evaluated according to the recommendations of the ...

Water Quality Monitoring to Support the European Commission's Water Framework Directive Reporting Requirements