Europe and Me

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Europe and Me
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Making our environment cleaner and safer?

• The European Union

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A tale of two countries
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Meanwhile, up the riverin another country
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Down the river,the fish are all dead
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How can they stop the fish being poisoned?
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Major riversin Europe
Volga
Don
Shannon
Thames
Elbe
Oder
Vistula
Dnieper
Seine
Rhine
Loire
Danube
Po
Rhone
Tagus
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Did you know?

• The longest European rivers to cross national
  boundaries are
• Danube (2850 km) Albania, Austria, Bosnia and
  Herzogovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czexh Republic,
  Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova,
  poland, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia,
  Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine
• Rhine (1319 km) Switzerland, Germany,
  Netherlands, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria,
  France, Luxembourg, Belgium
• Elbe (1165 km) Czech Republic. Germany
• Vistula (1086 km) Poland, Belarus, Slovakia,
  Ukraine
• Tagus (1007 km) Spain, Portugal
• Oder (912 km) Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
• Po (652 km) Italy, Switzerland, France
• Rhone (485 km) Switzerland, France

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Did you know?

• The main types of toxic waste are
• pesticides/ insecticides
• weed killers/ herbicides
• battery fluid
• batteries
• paints
• oil
• radioactive waste
• medicines also clinical, e.g., hypodermic
  needles or dialysis waste
• bleach
• gas canisters
• fridges/ freezers

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Did you know?

• Nineteen countries share the Danube river basin,
  which makes it the worlds most international
  river basin. Five major rivers and 165 million
  people in Europe pour pollution into the Danube.
  The river absorbs raw sewage from cities,
  pesticides and chemicals from farmers' fields,
  waste from factories and bilge oil from ships.
• In 1988, 364 drums of toxic waste originating in
  Italy were found to have been dumped into the
  Danube and somehow made their way onto the
  beaches and coastal waters of Turkey.

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Did you know?

• The EU Water Framework Directive is a set of
  laws that governs the care of rivers in EU Member
  States. It says that
• Member States have to identify and complete an
  analysis of all the river basins lying within
  their national territory
• Member States have to produce a management plan
  for each river basin district, making sure that
  it is in a good ecological condition and that
  pollution by hazardous substances is reduced
  with penalties if these provisions are infringed
• river basins covering more than one member state
  should be assigned to an international river
  basin district and a competent authority
  designated to look after each one.

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Did you know?

• The EU has been taking a number of measures to
  protect the environment including
• setting targets to limit air pollutants produced
  by vehicles
• setting standards for bathing water
• introducing rules for waste disposal so that
  dangerous waste from Europe can no longer be
  dumped in poor countries
• requiring all Member States to complete noise
  maps for their major towns, roads and airports
  and draw up action plans to reduce noise levels
• adopting the Birds Directive which identifies 194
  endangered species and sub-species of wild bird
  for special care
• setting up an EU Emission Trading Scheme on CO2
  emissions from industrial installations.