The practice of EU countries on the establishment water tariffs for irrigation agricultural crops and procedures recouping funds spent supply is considered. As main sources information manuscript were noted publications regulatory documents Ukraine, reports bodies, World Bank, in which a critical analysis pricing practices irrigated agriculture 2005-2023 was carried out. grouping area land, lev...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) based methods (Fig. 1) are proving to be a promising tool for freshwater fish biodiversity assessment in Europe within the Water Framework Directive (WFD, 2000/60/EC) especially large rivers and lakes where current monitoring techniques have known shortcomings. Freshwater actively involved aquatic ecosystems functioning diversity, contributing health, well-being economy...

The feasibility and added value of an ecosystem services approach in retrospective environmental risk assessment were evaluated using a site-specific case study lowland UK river. studied water body failed to achieve good ecological status temporarily 2018, due part the exceedance quality standard (annual average EQS) for zinc. Potential service delivery was quantified locally prioritised servic...

ARPA Puglia (Italy), the Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection, has chosen to use Scientific Diving Operator figure (ESD) in order meet some of environmental monitoring activities foreseen by European Directives, such as WFD-Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC MSFD-Marine Strategy 2008/56/EC. Regarding obligations aforementioned many them involve underwater operations. Fo...

Abstract River basin specific pollutants (RBSPs) are supposedly a key tool to fulfil the EU’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) goal of good ecological status in all European waterbodies. The RBSPs provide manage chemical pollution identified as national priority. An important question is if costly management related leads reduced emissions, an issue we investigated here using Sweden case. Swedis...

According to the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), restoration actions are needed if present-day ecological quality status (EcoQS) is worse than good. However, less stringent environmental objectives may be allowed water body’s natural condition such that it unfeasible or unreasonably expensive achieve good conditions. In Inner Skjolda- and Grindefjord, an isolated shallow silled fjords...

Despite the key role of zooplankton communities in regulating water quality lentic ecosystems, they are absent from list biological elements Water Framework Directive (WFD) for assessment ecological status. Based on this, present work was a case study that aimed to understand relevance as bioindicator classifying reservoirs. For one year and each season, Torrão reservoir assessed using mandator...

Environmental conditions, such as nutrient concentrations, salinity, elevation etc., shape diatom assemblages of periphytic biofilms. These respond rapidly to environmental changes, a fact which makes diatoms valuable bioindicators. Hence, freshwater biomonitoring programmes currently use indices (e.g. EU Water Framework Directive - WFD). To date, microscopy-based assessments require high taxon...

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment scheme has been putting in force the evaluation of freshwater ecosystems Europe, including a new paradigm ecological status. After almost 20 years since WFD implementation, it is imperative to evaluate efficiency its standard and explore possibility learning how improve effectiveness. That spirit this review, aiming (i) existing literature on bi...