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Time:: 01:31
Media Type:: Video
Published:: 24 May 2012

If Water could speak

Here is Water. You have met before. In fact, you come across Water in everything you do. Your life would not exist without Water. But Water is not infinite and ... More

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Time:: 06:14
Media Type:: Video
Author:: Ace&Ace
Published:: 29 Sep 2010

City of five seas: Environmental Atlas of Europe — Russia

Nizhny Novgorod has a population of 1.3 million and is one of Russia's most important industrial cities. Its process manufacturing plants are heavily reliant on water, supplied from the Volga ... More

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Time:: 01:14
Media Type:: Video
Author:: EEA
Published:: 18 Jun 2009

Share your information on bathing water quality

Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the EEA, invites beachgoers to visit and contribute to the Eye on Earth interactive web map. More

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Time:: 08:17
Media Type:: Video
Author:: DG Environment
Published:: 23 Apr 2008

Getting Europe's precious waters clean again

Protecting water from pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges that we face. In recent decades, major disasters like the Sandoz incident in 1986 demonstrated that pollution knows no ... More

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Time:: 10:26
Media Type:: Video
Author:: DG Environment
Published:: 22 Apr 2008

Living with Climate change

Global warming is happening. Temperatures have already risen by 0.76 degrees since the industrial revolution and are projected to rise further by 1.8 - 4 degrees by the end of ... More

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Time:: 01:45
Media Type:: Video
Author:: Ace & Ace Action Productions
Published:: 11 Dec 2007

Introduction of the film 'Our Arctic Challenge'

Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), and three of her colleagues have chosen to be part of an extraordinary journey in East Greenland. They travel from ... More

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Media Type:: Animation, Mind Stretcher
Published:: 19 Mar 2007

Introduction to General Terms

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Time:: 00:48
Media Type:: Video
Published:: 02 Feb 2006

Europe's seas and coasts expert

Eva Wlodarczyk, expert on Water, Seawater The seas around Europe are of vital importance to us, since historical times, they served as the source of food and employment for the people ... More

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Time:: 00:48
Media Type:: Video
Published:: 02 Feb 2006

Pollution from antifouling paint

(Transcription of audio on video) Antifouling paint was developed to reduce drag on ship hulls by preventing the buildup of barnacles and other organisms, consequently making ships faster and more fuel ... More

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Time:: 01:27
Media Type:: Video
Published:: 02 Feb 2006

Sources of water pollution

(Transcription of audio on video) Water can be polluted from many sources. Faecal contamination from sewage makes water unpleasant and unsafe for recreational activities such as swimming, boating or fishing. Many ... More

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Time:: 00:47
Media Type:: Video
Published:: 02 Feb 2006

Ask an expert on ground water

Pavla Chyská- EEA expert on Water, Ground water "Ground water is a very important element of the earth's hydrological cycle. It comes from rain and snow melt that seeps ... More

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Time:: 01:03
Media Type:: Video
Published:: 02 Feb 2006

Water and hydroelectric power

Although hydroelectric power stations create power from a reusable resource, there are some concerns about their impact on water. They alter the flow and temperature regimes that destroy fish spawning ... More