{"id":8583,"date":"2021-04-01T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/news\/lo-stato-dei-corpi-idrici-in-europa\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:28:24","slug":"lo-stato-dei-corpi-idrici-in-europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/news\/lo-stato-dei-corpi-idrici-in-europa\/","title":{"rendered":"The state of European water bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About <strong>88 %<\/strong> of Europe\u2019s freshwater use comes from <strong>rivers<\/strong> and <strong>groundwater<\/strong>, according to an article published on the website of the European Environment Agency in March 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/signals\/signals-2020\/articles\/ensuring-clean-waters-for-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Ensuring clean waters for people and nature<\/em><\/a>. The rest comes from reservoirs (about 10 %) and lakes (less than 2 %).<\/p>\n<p>Like any other vital resource or living organism, water can<strong> come under pressure<\/strong>. This can happen when demand for water exceeds its supply or when pollution reduces its quality.<\/p>\n<p>Waste water treatment and reductions in nitrogen and phosphorus losses from agriculture have led to significant improvements in water quality. However, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/signals\/themes\/water\/european-waters\/water-quality-and-water-assessment\/water-assessments\/ecological-status-of-surface-water-bodies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EEA\u2019s most recent data<\/a>, only 44 % of surface waters in Europe achieve good or high ecological status, partly because of pollution. The situation of Europe\u2019s groundwater is somewhat better. About 75 % of Europe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/signals\/themes\/water\/european-waters\/water-quality-and-water-assessment\/water-assessments\/groundwater-quantitative-and-chemical-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">groundwater areas<\/a> has a \u2018good chemical status\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the Italian Po Valley Plains, 51% of the water bodies are not in a good ecological state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 88 % of Europe\u2019s freshwater use comes from rivers and groundwater, according to an article published on the website of the European Environment Agency in March 2021 Ensuring clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-acqua-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8585,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/8585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}