Sanitation and wastewater treatment scenarios and effects on global water quality and SDG 6
Sanitation and wastewater treatment are key elements for global human health and aquatic biodiversity. Scenarios showed an improvement of sanitation but unimproved sanitation will not disappear before…
Policy Summary of The Geography of Future Water Challenges - Bending the Trend
Water is a critical resource, but our freshwater resources and water systems are under heavy pressure and hundreds of millions of people are at risk of having too little, too dirty or too much water…
Quantifying future sanitation scenarios and progress towards SDG targets in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Two main targets of SDG 6 (Sustainable Development Goal) are to achieve universal and equitable access to improved sanitation and to halve the proportion of untreated wastewater by 2030. We compiled a…
The comparative study on the river basins of the Yangtze in China and the Rhine in Europe describes the developments of habitat themes such as environmental pollution, biodiversity, urbanisation…
Het PBL publiceert een methode voor het onderzoeken van huidige en toekomstige klimaatrisico’s. Dit is onderdeel van de tweede nationale klimaatrisicoanalyse, die het PBL in samenwerking met…
This study The Geography of Future Water Challenges – Bending the trend shows that there is a great urgency to tackle global water and climate adaptation issues. This will require radical changes in…
What drives the ecological quality of surface waters? A review of 11 predictive modeling tools
What policy is needed to ensure that good-quality water is available for both people’s needs and the environ-ment? The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000, established a…
A scoping study coordinated by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency shows that improved and integrated river basin management is essential for adequate adaptation to climate change. In…
Het PBL publiceert een scopingstudie met een onderzoeksprogramma om de uitvoering van het beleid voor de aanpassing aan klimaatverandering op kortere en langere termijn te monitoren. Het PBL schetst…
De landbouw als diffuse bron van nutriënten en gewasbeschermingsmiddelen
50 jaar geleden trad de Wet verontreiniging oppervlaktewater in werking en 20 jaar geleden werd de Europese Kaderrichtlijn water van kracht. Voor het waterkwaliteitsbeheer in ons land zijn beide…
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