EU Groundwater Protection Directive - too weak!

According to the EEB the Directive has been watered down.

28.06.2005 |Sascha Gabizon

(Brussels, 27 June 2005) Last Friday, Environment Ministers agreed on a new Groundwater Protection Directive. According to the EEB, Europe’s largest federation of environmental citizen’s organisations, the agreed Directive does no more than backtrack on existing groundwater protection levels, giving cause for increased concern about EU’s responsibility towards its citizens.

“Clearly, citizens are worried about chemical contamination of their drinking water. But the response from EU governments is to allow even further contamination of groundwater - our main drinking water resource”, says Stefan Scheuer, EEB Policy Director. “Almost every government that asked for it got its specific exemption, leaving the law with more loopholes than actual obligations. This is the EU à la carte.”

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