EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT GROUNDWATER DIRECTIVE VOTE
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Parliament has beefed up a proposed European Union (EU) directive on protecting groundwater, aiming, it claims, to remove some loopholes that could allow pollution to go unchecked. In a second reading vote, that could lead it into conflict with the EU Council of Ministers, MEPs notably insisted that member states prevent the "deterioration" of groundwater, as well as its pollution. The parliament defined deterioration as "any slight, anthropogenically induced and persistent increase in concentrations of pollutants in relation to ...
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