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The Water Information System for Europe (WISE) is a partnership of the European Commission, the Directorate-General for the Environment (European Commission), Eurostat, the Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency. Since 2007 this web-based service platform provides the public with information about ongoing research projects ...
The document is the first result of numerous actions included in the European Commission White Paper Adapting to climate change; Towards a European framework for action. [2] The document includes guidance on how to take climate change into account in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, the Floods Directive and the Strategy on ...
The Ebro River Transfer, a project from the Spanish National Hydrological Plan of 2001 was highly criticised as being contrary to the principles of the EU Water Framework Directive, and later put on hold. The project planned to transfer huge amounts of water from the Ebro River to the south-east of Spain with the construction of 120 dams. [8]
The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (full title "Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment") is a European Union directive regarding urban wastewater collection, wastewater treatment and its discharge, as well as the treatment and discharge of "waste water from certain industrial sectors".
Urban Decision Support System (UDSS) – is a data-driven urban water management system that uses sensors attached to water appliances in urban residences to collect data about water usage. [8] The system was developed with a European Commission investment of 2.46 Million Euros [9] to improve the water consumption behavior of households ...
In Europe, this includes the European Drinking Water Directive [1] and in the United States, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes standards as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act. China adopted its own drinking water standard GB3838-2002 (Type II) enacted by Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2002. [2]
US Postal Service employees work inside the Los Angeles Mail Processing & Distribution Center on December 3. The facility is currently processing 1 million packages per day.
The remainder is accounted for by industries supplied from public water systems (14 percent) and other users (6 percent). [4] Residential and small commercial water use is the second lowest among 14 European countries [5] and only a fraction of what it is in North America. Despite forecasts about increasing per capita water use, use actually ...