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Belgium does not face water stress, despite its high density of population. Internal water availability is around 12,000 million m 3 /year (average 1990–2004), or 1,168 m 3 /capita/year. [5] [6] [7] The yield of groundwater is around 900 million m 3, exploited at a rate of 75%. This picture hides strong regional disparities, with the North ...
The Kyoto target for Flanders is 82.5 Mton during the period 2008-2012. [5] Belgium was poorly ranked in the Climate Change Performance Index due to the lack of regional teamwork. Wallonia has decreased its emissions by 34% [6] since 1990, the highest reduction rate out of the three regions. It was the only region to respect the uletrior ...
The National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress is a general report on water quality, providing overall information about the number of miles of streams and rivers and their aggregate condition. [65] The CWA requires states to adopt standards for each of the possible designated uses that they assign to their waters.
The biological monitoring working party (BMWP) is a procedure for measuring water quality using families of macroinvertebrates as biological indicators. [1]The method is based on the principle that different aquatic invertebrates have different tolerances to pollutants.
By 2023, a new EU agriculture law may raise water reuse by six times, from 1.7 billion m3 to 6.6 billion m3, and cut water stress by 5%. [10] [40] The indirect potable reuse (IDP) project in Wulpen, Belgium, discharges recycled water to an unconfined dune aquifer.
The 2016 Belgian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix) [1] was a Formula One motor race held on 28 August 2016 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It was the thirteenth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship , and marks the seventy-second running of the Belgian Grand Prix and the ...
The Directive is intended to protect human health by laying down healthiness and purity requirements which must be met by drinking water within the Community (see water quality). Articles 1 and 2 make clear the goal is wholesome and clean water as ‘intended for human consumption’, for instance in drinking, cooking, and for food.
The main function of the Gileppe Dam in the 21st century is to provide drinking water. As these needs are met, surplus water is turbinated. [23] In 1997, the Gileppe Dam produced 3,255,525 cubic metres of drinking water. [24] Although capacity is small, the Vesdre basin is one of the few places in Belgium to produce hydropower. [23]