The Water Framework Directive is actually the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), and was introduced into UK law in 2003.
The EU Water Framework Directive is an integrated river basin management for Europe that was adopted in 2000 in response to an increase in demand by environmental organisations and European citizens for cleaner rivers and lakes, groundwater and coastal beaches.
The WFD’s European Water Policy was developed in open consultation with all interested parties and uses specific legislation to implement its policies, including the Groundwater Directive 2006/118/EC, strategies against chemical pollution of surface waters, and various environmental objectives and exemptions.
The WFD’s key objectives are general protection of the aquatic ecology, specific protection of unique and valuable habitats, protection of drinking water resources, and protection of bathing water. All objectives are integrated for each river basin, and the last three to specific bodies of water that are designated for drinking water abstraction, those supporting special wetlands, and bathing areas. Ecological protection should apply to all waters.
The whole idea is that by looking after all water, the life in the water will be looked after too, and the offshoot of looking after all water sources will ensure that our drinking water is also far purer and healthier. One of the important innovations of the WFD is that, for the first time at European level, there is a framework for integrated management of both groundwater and surface water.
The WFD is backed by measures taken at Community level such as the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive and the Nitrates Directive. These directives look to handling eutrophication and microbial pollution in bathing water areas, and nitrates in drinking water. The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive deals with chemical pollution, rounding out the directives that deal with total water management.
The EU Water Framework Directive, together with the World Health Organisation and the Drinking Water Inspectorate basically look after the water in London, including your drinking water. Unfortunately studies have shown that there are still minuscule amounts of toxins in the drinking water in London which many individuals are not happy with, even though the authorities say that these are well within all allowable levels.
If you are not happy with the water that is coming out of your tap and are not drinking sufficient water due to that, you are taking chances with your health. It is vital that we all drink sufficient water on a daily basis in order to maintain our body’s fluid levels and our good health. One way of ensuring that you have access to healthy, toxin-free, great tasting and smelling drinking water is to get a mains water cooler that is fitted with a good filter that ensures that all toxins are removed.
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