Water pollutant releases changes from 2010 to 2023 for the EU Member States

The table show the top five emission reduction changes in pollutant releases into water in EU-27 Member States from 2010 to 2023.

Units

Percentage change with reference to 2010

Additional information

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 production of anomalous % change between two given years.
For this reason Czechia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia has been not considered.

Methodology

Pollutant releases reported under E-PRTR/LCP dataflow for the relevant pollutant have been aggregated at EU-27 level and index against 2010 level has been calculated. Releases from Cd, Hg, Ni and Pb are aggregated together.

Water pollutant releases changes from 2010 to 2023 for the EU Member States

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