scholarly journals Implementing a Statewide Deficit Analysis for Inland Surface Waters According to the Water Framework Directive—An Exemplary Application on Phosphorus Pollution in Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany)

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phuong Ta ◽  
Björn Tetzlaff ◽  
Michael Trepel ◽  
Frank Wendland
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Emission Model ◽  
Phosphorus Pollution ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Good Ecological Status

Deficit analysis—which principally deals with the question “how big are the gaps between current water status and good ecological status?”—has become an essential element of the river basin management plans prescribed by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). In a research project on behalf of the Ministry of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization Schleswig-Holstein (MELUND), a deficit analysis based on distributed results from the water balance and phosphorus emission model system GROWA-MEPhos at high spatial resolution was performed. The aim was, inter alia, to identify absolute and relative required reduction in total phosphorus at any river segment or lake within the state territory as well as to highlight significant emission sources. The results of the deficit analysis were successfully validated and show an exceedance of the phosphorus target concentrations in 60% of the analyzed subcatchments. Statewide, 269 tons of phosphorus needs to be reduced yearly, which corresponds to approximately 31% of the total emission. Detailed data as well as maps generated by the deficit analysis benefit the planning and implementation of regionally efficient measures, which are indispensable with regard to meeting the environmental quality objectives set by the WFD.

Economic analysis in the process of the preparation of river basin management plans in Slovenia: the Drava River Basin pilot study

2009 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-358
Author(s):  
J. Dodič ◽  
A. Bizjak
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Waste Water Treatment ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Eu Directive ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Drava River ◽  
The Eu

According to the EU Directive 2000/60/EC (Water Framework Directive, hereinafter called: WFD), several steps have to be worked out on the way towards the good water status. For this goal, some of the main elements of the river basin management plans are the programme of measures. The programme of measures has to include basic and supplementary measures. In addition, it has to check the implementation of European Directives into the national law and has to estimate the effects of these rules on the quality of the water bodies. If these regulations are not sufficient to reach the good status of water, supplementary measures have to be applied. The paper gives an overview of how basic and supplementary measures for wastewater treatment were considered in the Drava River Basin. The main stress is given to the implementation of the EU Directive 91/271/EEC (the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, hereinafter called: UWWTD), as part of the basic measures as defined in Annex VI of WFD and its results in the Drava River Basin.

Combining active farmer involvement with detailed farm data in Denmark: a promising method for achieving water framework directive targets?

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2625-2633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. L. Wright ◽  
Brian H. Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Selection Of

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) encourages active involvement during its implementation, although no specific participatory methods are suggested, whilst implementing the target-oriented Directive will require detailed agri-environmental data at catchment and farm level. The paper is a case study of the Danish AGWAplan project, which actively involved farmers in the selection of measures to reduce diffuse nutrient pollution at farm and catchment level, thereby providing an example of how active involvement might be operationalised. Active involvement has been identified as being of central importance to the success of the WFD. The project also entailed the accumulation of extensive agri-environmental data. The aim of the paper is to evaluate AGWAplan to establish the extent to which its expected objectives have been achieved and how, and to determine whether the project approach might facilitate WFD goals if implemented in forthcoming river basin management plans (RBMPs). AGWAplan resulted in advantageous outcomes, including win–win solutions to reduce nutrient leaching and greater acceptance of policy, although the original reduction targets where not fully reached. The paper concludes that actively involving farmers in a similar manner in RBMPs may make an important contribution to the implementation of the WFD, although caveats regarding its potential for transfer to other areas are identified.

Integrating the implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive and Floods Directive in Ireland

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 2044-2051 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Earle ◽  
S. Blacklocke ◽  
M. Bruen ◽  
G. Almeida ◽  
D. Keating
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Physical Property ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
The European Union ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Floods Directive

Water Framework Directive (WFD) statutory authorities and stakeholders in Ireland are now challenged with the issue of how the proposed programmes of measures in the newly required River Basin Management Plans – designed to protect and restore good ecology by reverting as closely as possible back to natural conditions – are to be implemented in a way that concurrently complies with other existing and emerging intersecting European Union legislation, such as the Floods Directive (FD). The WFD is driven largely by ecological considerations, whereas the FD and other legislation are more geared towards protecting physical property and mitigating public safety risks. Thus many of the same waterbodies, especially heavily modified waterbodies, arguably have somewhat competing policy objectives put upon them. This paper explores the means by which Ireland might best achieve the highest degrees of cost effectiveness, economic efficiency and institutional durability in pursuing the common and overarching objective of the WFD and FD – to ensure Irish waterways are put to their highest valued uses.

scholarly journals Impact of EU Environmental Policy Implementation on the Quality and Status of Greek Rivers

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 1858
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Theodor Skoulikidis ◽  
Ioannis Karaouzas ◽  
Yiorgos Amaxidis ◽  
Maria Lazaridou
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Status ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
General Improvement ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Based on historical and WFD-compliant data, the recent inter-annual ecological status and the long-term chemical-physicochemical quality trends of eighteen characteristic Greek rivers have been assessed and interpreted in view of implementing EU environmental policies and the evolution of human pressures. Considering predominating poor ecological status in most of the river outflows, the strengths and weaknesses of the WFD implementation have been highlighted. The long-term decrease of ammonium and nitrite concentrations along with relatively low recent BOD5 levels, indicate a general improvement of WWTP infrastructure in Greece and the other riparian countries, whereas the improvement of nitrate quality is attributed to the reduction of fertilizers use, and possibly, to the successful application of the Nitrates Directive in certain basins. Despite capacity building in governance and administrative infrastructure the recent years, River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) are being implemented centrally, largely mechanistically, with minor public participation. Regarding WFD implementation weaknesses and gaps, concrete proposals have been formulated considering both policy/administrative and technical issues. To efficiently conserve and restore aquatic ecosystems, the forthcoming RBMPs should be consistent with ecosystem services principles focusing on nature-based solutions, along with changing attitudes of the state authorities and the public.

scholarly journals Towards an Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) the HarmonIT project

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Blind ◽  
J. B. Gregersen
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Integrated Modelling ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans

Abstract. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) poses an immense challenge to water management in Europe. Aiming at a "good ecological status" of surface waters in 2015, integrated river basin management plans need to be in place by 2009, and broadly supported by stakeholders. Information & Communication Technology (ICT) tools, such as computational models, are very helpful in designing river basin management plans (rbmp-s). However, many scientists believe that a single integrated modelling system to support the WFD cannot be developed, and integrated systems need to be quite tailored to the local situation and evolve during a collaborative planning process. As a consequence there is an urgent need to increase the flexibility of modelling systems, such that dedicated model systems can be developed from available building blocks. In the recent past a number of initiatives have been started to develop an IT framework for modelling to meet the required flexibility. In Europe the international project HarmonIT, which is sponsored by the European Commission, is developing and implementing a standard interface for modelling components and other relevant tools: The Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI). This paper describes the HarmonIT project and objectives in general. The current progress is described. It describes the roles for different types of stakeholders in modelling, varying from software coders to non-specialized users of decision support systems. It will provide insight in the requirements imposed when using the OpenMI.

scholarly journals Does scale matter?Cost-effectiveness of agricultural nutrient abatement when target level varies

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. IHO
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Nutrient Loss ◽  
Target Level ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
The Cost

Agriculture is facing stringent requirements for nutrient loss reductions. These reductions should be done cost-effectively. For instance, the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) emphasizes cost-effectiveness in reaching good water status in European river basins by 2015. River Basin Management Plans specify the eventual reduction targets, which will differ between the basins. These differences have implications on cost-effectiveness assessments: changing the level of total abatement changes the relative shares of measures in the cost-effective allocation. In this paper we develop a model which determines the cost-effective allocation of three alternative measures to reduce phosphorus loss from fields. The model allows for comparisons with cost and reductions of all possible allocations. We show that, even for homogenous regions, the cost-effective allocation of measures is strongly dependent on the target level, and that using the allocation from one reduction level as a guideline for other levels violates cost-effectiveness seriously. On the grounds of these results we give recommendations for cost-effectiveness assessments in the context of the WFD.;

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