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Water: LIFEnews features
Various LIFEnews articles deal with water issues. This section offers a selection of thematic and project features that have been published over the last couple of years.
Water features 2010
Water features 2009
- Addressing agricultural eutrophication in Denmark (November 2009)
- LIFE TOPPS: reducing the impact of point source pollution from European Plant Protection Products (September 09)
- ProAquifer: protecting mountain aquifer waters in the Middle East (September 09)
- Demonstrating new domestic waste water management systems in Germany (April 09)
- ECO-BIZ: Improving environmental business standards in Morocco (March 09)
- EAUCUIR: Wastewater treatment in Tunisian tanneries (February 09)
Water features 2008
- PROWATER: Waste water recycling in the textile wet industry (June 08)
- Innovative Reed Beds Manage Urban Water Quality (May 08)
- Advancing wastewater treatment in rural areas (March 08)
Water features 2007
- Water scarcity and LIFE - developing good practice in reducing water usage (October 07)
- Saving water with more efficient irrigation systems (October 07)
- Swedish tannery project achieves over 80% cuts in nitrogen discharge (May 07)
- LIFE aids Hulshof in the Netherlands improve upon current BATs in tannery effluent treatment (May 07)
- Tackling wastewater treatment in Tunisian tanneries (May 07)
- LIFE and EU tanneries (May 07)
- LIFE and the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (April 07)
- Engaging local urban communities in river management (April 07)
- Harmonising navigational, agricultural and environmental interests in river valleys (April 07)
- Computer-based decision support system for river basin management (April 07)
- Planning for the future of Spain’s southern coastal waters (February 07)
- Green dredging: cleaning up TBT contaminated port sediments (February 07)
- Planning the future of the Bothnian Bay (February 07)
- SOS – Save our seas: the future of EU maritime policy and the LIFE programme (February 07)
Water features 2006
- Water consumption cut in dairy operations (October 2006)
- LIFE aids specially protected Maltese coastline sites (June 06)
- Future of Lake Engure ensured (May 06)
- Assessing hormonal imbalance (March 06)
Water features 2005
- Saarland University leads cross-border riverine pollution study (October 05)
- OSIS improves oil spill detection in the North Sea (October 05)
- Work continues to limit diffuse pollution in Lake Lappajärvi, Finland (October 05)
- AQUARIUS monitors sewage effluent from Genoa (September 05)
- Sustainable water management in Ceuta, Spain (September 05)
- LIFE on red alert in Egypt oil tanker spill (March 05)
For yet more examples of projects funded by the programme, visit the LIFE project database.