EU AGREES NEW ANTI-POLLUTION RULES AS OECD COUNTS COST OF WATER CONTAMINATION
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT has been secured on a new European Union (EU) directive reducing or banning 33 pollutants - mainly pesticides and heavy metals - found in EU rivers, lakes and coastal waters. By 2018, member states will have to reduce pollution from "priority substances", while blocking or phasing out emissions, discharges and losses of "priority hazardous substances". These controlled pollutants include cadmium, carbon-tetrachloride, Endosulfan, Trifluralin and others - ...
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