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Water Framework Directive Directions to the Environment Agency on Classification of Water Bodies
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| Resource Type: |
document --> policy documents
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
2008 |
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Consultation Document and annexes
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Defra
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
Welsh Assembly Givernment
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Water and sanitation-->Water supply
Water resources and their management -->River basin management
Water resources and their management -->River basins
Water resources and their management -->Stresses, quality and ecological status
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Short description: |
The WFD requires us to aim to achieve good status in all inland and coastal water bodies by 2015. Good status is not perfect. A water body at good status will show slight signs of disturbance resulting from human activities. But good status is good enough to ensure that the water body and the ecosystems that depend on it are sustainable in the long term.
This consultation is the final stage in a process of developing the environmental quality standards and other criteria recommended for use in classification in the first river basin planning cycle. It also includes recommendations on methodologies for the use of those standards and criteria to classify all WFD water bodies.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 26/10/2008
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