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Water pollutant releases changes from 2010 to 2021 for the EU Member States

Figure Created 20 Apr 2023 Published 21 Apr 2023 Last modified 21 Apr 2023

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Topics: Industry Water and marine environment

The table shows the top five emission reduction changes in pollutant releases into water in EU-27 Member States from 2010 to 2021.

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Methodology:: Pollutant releases reported under the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)/Large Combustion Plants (LCP) dataflow for the relevant pollutant have been aggregated at EU-27_2020 level and index against 2010 level has been calculated. Releases from Cd, Hg, Ni and Pb are aggregated together.
Units:: Percentage change with reference to 2010
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Figure type:: Graph

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TOC - total organic carbon, Total N - total nitrogen, Total P - total phosphorous, Cd - Cadmium, Hg - Mercury, Ni - Nichel, Pb - Lead. Croatia comparison is from 2014 because it was not an EU member state before.
Gap filling of non-reported data is not performed to avoid the production of anomalous percentage change between two given years. For this reason, Czechia, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia have been not considered.

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