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Water themes and data
Clean fresh water is essential to life. Unfortunately, since the Industrial Revolution, most of Europe's rivers have been treated unwisely as a convenient way of transporting waste to the sea, affecting the biodiversity of thousands of kilometers of waterways, harming human health, and in the end polluting coastal and marine waters.
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Coasts and seas
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Highlights
- Interactive technology empowers Europeans to manage environmental change
- 17 Nov 2009
- Pollution: new European register gives public access to information on emissions from European industrial facilities
- 09 Nov 2009
- EEA joins forces with European Water Partnership
- 29 Sep 2009
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Featured articles
- Updated maps of urban waste water collection and treatment
- 22 Jul 2009
- New data on European water quality in WISE
- 13 Oct 2008
- News on WISE map viewer for World Water Day 2008
- 18 Mar 2008
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Water live maps
- River basin district information (Water Framework Directive Article 3)
- Status of water bodies (Water Framework Directive Article 5)
- Monitoring networks (Water Framework Directive Article 8)
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Upcoming events
- 2010 Open Day for HiWATE (Health impacts of long-term exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water)
- 23 Feb 2010 - 23 Feb 2010, Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Water & Environment 2010: CIWEM's Annual Conference
- 28 Apr 2010 - 29 Apr 2010, olympia conference centre, Hammersmith Road, London, W14 8UX
Green tips
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union.