EU agrees on cleaner rivers, lakes
back in 2000, there was a strategy (the Water Framework Directive, wfd) to deal with chemical pollution in water. Now, in 2007, steps are being taken to establish overall environmental quality standards (eqs) to protect rivers and lakes. On June 28, the Luxembourg meeting of the council of the European Union (eu), attended by 20 different countries, reached a political agreement on a draft on eqs