EU LAUNCHES WATER POLLUTION NUTRIENT MAP
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCENTRATIONS of manure and fertiliser nitrogen run-off into watercourses across Europe have been made starkly clear in a new European Union's Joint Research Centre atlas on nutrient pollution. This shows the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark as being Europe's hotspots for such contamination, although Wales and Northern Ireland perform poorly. The atlas contains data-maps on a wide range of nutrient pollution. *See - http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/fileadmin/Documentation/Highlight/FATE_Atlas_compressed.pdf
CONCENTRATIONS of manure and fertiliser nitrogen run-off into watercourses across Europe have been made starkly clear in a new European Union's Joint Research Centre atlas on nutrient pollution. This shows the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark as being Europe's hotspots for such contamination, although Wales and Northern Ireland perform poorly. The atlas contains data-maps on a wide range of nutrient pollution. *See - http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/fileadmin/Documentation/Highlight/FATE_Atlas_compressed.pdf
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