For a quarter of a century, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) has been the cornerstone of #EU water management. It protects rivers, lakes, groundwater, coastal waters and establishes the principle that clean water is a shared public good.
📝 To celebrate this milestone, Friedrich Barth, former team leader for the European Commission, takes us back to the day it was adopted.

𝐘𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧.
The European Commission has taken a dangerous step back and promised to reopen the #WFD, which would undermine decades of effort and put Europe’s ability to address pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate impacts on #water at risk.
The Living Rivers Europe coalition is worried.
⚠️𝐑𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 #𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 25 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞!⚠️

Mor info see the news from 4 december

Interview with Friedrich Barth by Wetlands International