England set to wreck extended deadline to meet EU water pollution targets and already risks legal action for failing to meet original 2015 deadline,reports ENDSMost rivers, lakes and coastal and ground waters in England will still not meet legally binding EU water pollution targets by 2021 – six years after the initial deadline.
According to the Environment Agency’s (EA) draft river basin management plans (RBMPs), and analysed by ENDS,compliance with Water Framework Directive (WFD) standards will have risen to just 25% in 2021, up from 17% in 2015 (see table 1).
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Source: theguardian.com