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Water, Drinking Water, and Water Protection

Publications

Last changed: 13/09/11

 

General

• Communication Manual ”Local Agenda 21 and Water ” – Summary PDF / 12 KB
• Environmental Quality Objectives and Action Targets for Water protection – Status Report and Prospects
• The German Water Sector – Policies and Experiences
• Transboundary Water Management – Berlin RecommendationsPDF / 689 KB
• Water – a Key to Sustainable Development PDF / 1.52 MB
• Water Framework Directive – Summary of River Basin District Analysis 2004 in Germany
• Water Framework Directive – The way towards healthy waters (Result of the German river basin management plans 2009)

Drinking water

• Determination of the amount of nickel released from the surface of chromeplated products made of copper alloys PDF / 1.12 MB
• Final Report on Inter-laboratory Testing of Proposed EAS GC-MS Protocol PDF / 219 KB
• Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality
• Occurrence of cyanobacterial toxins (microcystins) in surface water of rural Bangladesh: pilot study
• Protecting Groundwater for Health
• Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water

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Emissions into waters

• Calculation of Emissions into Rivers in Germany using the MONERIS Model – Nutrients, heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
• Emissions of Heavy Metals and Lindane into River Basins of Germany
• R&D-Project: Identification of Organic Compounds in the North and Baltic Seas
• Recommendations for Simulations to Predict Environmental Concentrations of Active Substances of Plant Protection Products and their Metabolites in Groundwater (PECgw) in the National Assessment for Authorisation in Germany

Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances

• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 1 and Part 2
• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 3 (German – PDF / 167 KB)
• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 4 (German – PDF / 200 KB)
• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 5.1 (German – PDF / 83 KB)
• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 5.2 (German – PDF / 72 KB)
• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 5.3 (German – PDF / 82 KB)
• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 5.4 (German – PDF / 55 KB)
• Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances Part 5.5 (German – PDF / 49 KB)
• International Pilot Study for the determination of Riverine Inputs of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to the Maritime Area on the basis of a harmonised methodology – Final Report –
• Nutrient Emissions into River Basins of Germany on the Basis of a Harmonized Procedure
• Trend methods for the assessment of effectiveness of reduction measures in the water system

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Seas

• R&D-Project: Identification of  Organic Compounds in the North and Baltic Seas
• Recommendations concerning minimum requirements for a project-based study of potential impacts on the marine environment of the North Sea and Baltic Sea due to the construction and operation of offshore wind turbines PDF / 161 KB

Surface waters

• Case Studies on Heavily Modified Water Bodies in Germany – Summary PDF / 6 KB
• Causes of flooding and its anthropogenic influence, Proposed measures – Summary PDF / 46 KB
• State of the most important lakes in Germany – Summary PDF / 164 KB

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Sustainable water management

• Sustainable Water Management and Local Agenda 21 – Summary PDF / 20 KB

Wastewater

• Demographic change as a challenge to secure and develop cost- and resource­efficient wastewater infrastructure
  • English-language summary PDF / 332 KB
  • complete study in German

More information

• publications in German

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