The call was announced on the 17th March 2026 and is the first official step in updating the Water Framework Directive (WFD), a cornerstone of EU water policy in place since 2000. The four-week ...

The EU’s key water law is under pressure amid intensified lobbying by the mining industry. DeSmog analysis shows sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the European Commission ...

The Council has formally adopted the directive on updating the list of pollutants affecting surface water and groundwater, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals and PFAS. The revised rules also ...

(CN) — Ireland’s long struggle to clean up its waters hit a breaking point Thursday, as Europe’s top court said the country had dragged its feet too long on one of the EU’s flagship environmental laws ...

EU member states diluted water rules — enabling up to ten times more chemical pollution arising from medicines to be permitted in groundwater compared with an original European Commission proposal — ...