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• Category: News
  • EPA Releases a report on urban waste water treatment in 2013 (12/16/2014)
  • Water is for life: How the Water Framework Directive helps safeguard Europe’s resources (12/09/2014)
  • Satellite technology helps monitor water quality in lakes (04/01/2009)
  • Water Management, Water Framework Directive and Hydropower (12/16/2008)
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  • SWAN Research Project:  Abstraction of groundwater & surface water in Ireland & implications for meeting Water Framework Directive objectives. (01/30/2015)