RECENT NEWSLETTERS:
(Updated July 2006)
Coast Map News:
Issue 12, June 2006
Includes articles on:
New Marine Mapping: SeaZone Hydrospatial Defra has recently acquired new marine mapping from SeaZone Solutions Ltd, part of the UK Hydrographic Office. The mapping product itself is known as ‘SeaZone Hydrospatial’ and has been likened to the equivalent of Ordnance Survey’s most detailed land based mapping for the marine environment and coastal zone. National Biodiversity Network Trust.
Ecologic Newsletter:
No 40 - June 2006
Includes articles on:
‘Water Framework Directive meets Common Agricultural Policy - Opportunities for the future (CAP & WFD)’ - Policy Briefs published - The policy briefs on “Cross Compliance and the WFD”, “Incentive water pricing and cost recovery in the WFD” and “Co-operation and participation at the interface of EU Agricultural and Water Policies” have been published and can be downloaded. They result from a project analysing the legal and organisational interlinkages between the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the EU in order to identify opportunities for synergies in the future implementation, planning, financing and controlling of both policy requirements.
‘Urban Water Management: Case Studies Berlin and Emscher region’ – Lecture - The Università Luigi Bocconi organised a conference on behalf of the Milan municipality to analyse Milan’s wastewater treatment system as regards sustainability issues, organisational models and future challenges. The conference took place on 4 May 2006. Researchers from around Europe presented five case studies on European experience with wastewater management in urban areas. Ecologic Fellow Nadine Herbke presented the results of the Berlin and Emscher case studies. Further case studies analysed the answers of Paris, Birmingham and Porto to the challenges of urban wastewater management. A restricted number of high ranking stakeholders from the private, public and environmental NGO sectors took part in the conference and integrated the results of the case studies in their discussion of the challenges faced by Milan with regard to the EU Water Framework Directive.
(http://www.ecologic.de/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=26)
IAHR NewsFlash:
July 2006
NewsFlash is an electronic digest of news and information on hydraulic engineering and research published monthly by IAHR (International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research).
(http://www.iahr.net/site/index.html)
IWA – Head Office Bulletin:
Issue 113, June 2006
The Inland Waterways Association’s monthly Bulletin (15 pages), produced by the Head Office, contains the latest news on issues affecting the waterways, both nationally and locally and reports on recent water festivals. It also introduces new publications and gives a summary of current consultations.
(http://www.waterways.org.uk/news/bulletin/index.htm)
REBECCA
(Relationships between ecological and chemical status of surface waters) Newsletter No7:
July 2006
In this issue the project coordinator, Seppo Rekolainen, sums up the state of play within the REBECCA project; a breakthrough in intercalibration; first information on final REBECCA Conference.
(http://www.environment.fi/default.asp?contentid=192777&lan=EN )
Science for Environment Policy:
June 2006
DG Environment News Alert Service is sent weekly to interested subscribers. June issues include information on: ’Do Herbicides Present in Sludge Impact the Soil Ecosystem? (29/06/06) and ‘Low Impact of Public Participation in the European Water Policy’ (22/06/06).
(http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/integration/research_alert_en.htm)
SEPAView:
Issue 30, May/June 2006
The Magazine of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. The theme of this issue is sustainable housing. In the News section:
SEPA announces water environment charges.
Pollution a threat to some rivers and lochs. A new review of water quality in Scotland has shown that 146 of our rivers and 17 of Scottish lochs are at risk from pollution. The research, which was published on 31 March, was carried out by SEPA and identified waters that show evidence of being damaged by harmful nutrients from sewage effluent, agriculture, forestry, fish farming and urban drainage. SEPA is now responsible for making sure that steps are taken to remove the risks faced by these waters.
The new Water Environment (Oil Storage) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 came into force on 1 April 2006,
(http://www.sepa.org.uk/publications/sepaview/index.htm)
The View, from Water UK:
15 June 2006
Among the topics:
’Rain May fall... ’ One of the wettest Mays for many years helped to replenish river and reservoir levels in drought-affected south east England, but the rain arrived too late to make much difference to groundwater.
’House of Lords report on water management’
’Analysis of cost-effective route ruled out’ Assessment of the benefits of using economic instruments in achieving the objectives of the Water Framework Directive has been pre-empted by Defra, in advance of a preliminary cost effective assessment exercise due to take place in 2006 and 2007.
’Seeking consistency and security from groundwater directive’
(http://www.water.org.uk/home/news/newsletters/)
SWIFT-WFD (Screening methods for Water data InFormation in support of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive), Newsletter:
5 June 2006
Screening methods and emerging tools:
Feedbacks from case studies. Case studies were conducted in five countries (UK, Germany, France Latvia and Czech Republic). This Newsletter reports main results obtained in these different case studies, relative to both technical and socio-economic aspects.