The evaluation report for medicinal products for human use analyses available data on quantities consumed and applied, pathways of input into waters, monitoring data concerning surface waters, groundwater and drinking water as well as quality criteria and possible measures. After…
Wastewater today contains different micropollutants, such as certain household chemicals, personal care products, detergents, pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics and hormones and radio-opaque substances. In waters, they are detectable in very low quantities and may cause…
Im Rahmen des Programms Rhein 2020, dessen Ziel die dauerhafte Einhaltung der Zielvorgaben in Wasser, Schwebstoffen/Sedimenten und Lebewesen ist, werden 2-jährliche Berichte über den Vergleich der Messwerte mit den im Rahmen des Aktionsprogramms…
The Master Plan Migratory Fish Rhine is supposed to indicate how self sustaining, stable populations of migratory fish can again be settled in the Rhine watershed as far as the Basel area within both reasonable time and costs. On 18 October 2007, the Conference of Rhine Ministers…
The WAP distinguishes between warnings, information and search reports.
The International Main Alert Centres (IHWZ) issue warnings in cases of water pollution incidents implying substances noxious to water, if the amounts or concentrations concerned may detrimentally impact the…
In 2005, analysis of dredged material from the Upper Rhine indicated a too high degree of sediment contamination. Thus, in 2005 a coordinated sediment management plan for the Rhine was commissioned. The result we now dispose of is the first plan for an international river basin…
Since modifications of climate values impact the hydrological processes as well as the water regime, the Conference of Rhine Ministers charged the ICPR in 2007 to draft a scenario study for the flow regime of the Rhine.
The ICPR has immediately started work on this issue in its…
Biological assessment of the Rhine – main stream – 2006 / 2007
During the last years, an extensive biological survey of the Rhine has been carried through. Due to today’s good quality of Rhine water and the already implemented measures targeted at improving river continuity and…
Salmon: Improve access to habitats and reduce illegal catches
Based on a comprehensive fish-ecological analysis including priority measures for the further development and spreading of the stock of salmon, sea trout, allice shad and lamprey, the ICPR presents new proposals for…
The WAP distinguishes between warnings, information and search reports.
The International Main Alert Centres (IHWZ) issue warnings in cases of water pollution incidents implying substances noxious to water, if the amounts or concentrations concerned may detrimentally impact the…
