Many rivers and streams in Europe are far away from the good water status that they should have reached already in 2015 under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Experience in some countries has shown that the WFD system of river basin management plans and programmes of measures that should remedy this situation needs to… [Read more]
IMPEL group looks at Thames river development
On 4 and 5 June 2018, the IMPEL “River development planning” project team visited London for a workshop with experts from the Environment Agency and catchment partnerships in England. The six visitors from Germany, Denmark, Poland and Slovenia were informed on the “Catchment based approach” to improve the quality of the water environment in the… [Read more]
River development planning at working level
On 27 and 28 September 2017, the IMPEL project “River development planning” held an expert workshop in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). The results of the workshop will serve as input for the envisaged IMPEL guideline on river development planning that is to be drafted in the course of 2018. One of the essential conclusions so far… [Read more]
River development planning expert meeting
The IMPEL project “River development planning” will hold an expert workshop in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) on 27-28 September 2017. Administrative, legal and scientific experts from 8 European countries will discuss relevant problems and best practices to improve the quality of small and medium rivers and thus implement the EU Water Framework Directive. The workshop… [Read more]