Search Results for: Spain
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SALT WATER POLLUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities need to guard against the leaching of marine pollution through porous aquifers into freshwater groundwater sources, a European Union funded research project has warned. The Euro 2.4 million SALTRANS study has dismissed earlier assumptions that toxic organic pollutants are not sufficiently soluble to flow into groundwater reserves.…
FRAMEWORK SIGNATORIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation announced that 40 countries and the European Union signed the new global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control within a week of it being agreed. Signatories included Britain, Spain, Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and France.…
HARRY POTTER - CARIBBEAN
BY ALEX SMALES
IN the Caribbean’s key capital of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the branch of six-outlet chain RIK bookstores told the Bookseller it had sold more than “1,000 copies on the opening day,” with customers queuing for sales.…
GROUNDWATER REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.
The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…
EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION from European Union-funded research has continued to offer improvements to the way that EU water utilities work. For instance, the European Commission-funded MicroChem initiative has developed miniaturised laboratory-on-a-chip systems suitable for rapid field testing of water streams. They examine water in tiny pictolitre quantities, flowing through microbore channels produced by photolithographic etching.…
SPAIN EXPORT SUBSIDIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will be grant aiding Spain’s Institut del Cava with Euro 945,038 to help it promote Spanish wine exports outside of the European Union over the next three years. National funds are expected to top up this programme, raising the overall budget to Euro 1,890,076.…
GROUNDWATER REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.
The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…
SPAIN ECJ CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities and water companies may be able to flout European law of bathing water quality, without facing the consequences, if the pollution problems they face are complex and intangible. That is the conclusion that may be drawn from a formal opinion issued at the European Court of Justice by advocate general Jean Mischo.…
UK OFFSHORE FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN
FORGET all those stories you used to hear about weak regulation and cosy financial set-ups in Britain’s offshore dependencies such as the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the crown colony of Gibraltar. They may once have been good places to launder money but not any more they aren’t.…
FRAMEWORK SIGNATORIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation announced that 40 countries and the European Union signed the new global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control within a week of it being agreed. Signatories included Britain, Spain, Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and France.…