RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT IS A GREAT IDEA – BUT EU GOVERNMENTS HAVE DRAGGED THEIR FEET OVER IMPLEMENTATION
December 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MJ DESCHAMPS, MARK ROWE, BRENDAN DE BEER and MAKKI MARSEILLES
IT has been a real slog - persuading the European Union's (EU) 27 member states to implement detailed plans to manage their water resources on a river basin basis, rather than artificial political boundaries bearing little relation to hydrology.
They have had plenty of time: the EU's water framework directive came into force in the year 2000 and member states had until last December to get these management systems in place. But as 2010 drew to a close, Belgium, Cyprus, ...
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