Brussels, 22/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has proposed improving the quality of European groundwater by setting quality objectives at European level, and by imposing two kinds of obligation on the Member States: firstly, to monitor and assess the quality of these waters in order to identify and reverse trends in pollution, and secondly to protect groundwater against the indirect pollution of the water as it moves through the ground.
A proposed directive to this effect...