GERMAN SCIENTISTS SAY PESTICIDE INCREASE CAUSED BY BIOFUEL BOOM COULD UNDERMINE EU WATER CONTROLS
December 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN scientists have warned that European Union (EU) water pollution controls could be undermined by growing energy crop production, because of the resulting additional load of pesticides into watercourses. The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), of Leipzig, Halle and Magdeburg, has called for reforms to the EU's water framework directive to help. It wants a more flexible monitoring system examining the effects of pollution in general, rather than looking for specific substances. In a European Commission report on the centre's ...
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