EU needs groundwater ecosystems guidelines

• Author(s): Di Lorenzo, Tiziana ; Lunghi, Enrico ; Aanei, Cristina Mihaela Tereza ; Altermatt, Florian ; Alther, Roman ; Rosário, Isabel Amorim Do ; Bancila, Raluca ; Bellvert, Adrià ; Blomberg, Anna ; Borges, Paulo A. V. ; Brad, Traian ; Brancelj, Anton ; Brankovits, David ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Cerasoli, Francesco ; Chauveau, Claire A. ; Crespo, Luís ; Csader, Michael ; Delić, Teo ; Di Cicco, Mattia ; Douady, Christophe J. ; Duchemin, Louis ; Faille, Arnaud ; FIASCA, BARBARA ; Fišer, Cene ; Flot, Jean-François ; Gabriel, Rosalina ; Galassi, Diana M.P. ; Garzoli, Laura ; Griebler, Christian ; Karwautz, Clemens ; Kenesz, Marius I. ; Konecny-Dupré, Lara ; Lilley, Thomas ; Malard, Florian ; Martínez, Alejandro ; Meierhofer, Melissa B. ; Messana, Giuseppe ; Millán, Andrés ; Mizerakis, Vangelis ; Mori, Nataša ; Nanni, Veronica ; Nicolosi, Giuseppe ; Oromí, Pedro ; Pallarés, Susana ; Pereira, Fernando ; Reboleira, Ana Sofia ; Saccò, Mattia ; Salussolia, Alice ; Sánchez-Fernández, David ; Sarbu, Serban M ; S̗tefan, Andrei ; Stoch, Fabio ; Camillo, Agostina Tabilio Di ; TAITI, STEFANO ; Vaccarelli, Ilaria ; Valanne, Valeria ; Zagmajster, Maja ; Zakšek, Valerija ; Zittra, Carina ; Mammola, Stefano
• Date: 2024
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/7208
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): European Union (EU); Ecosystems
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório da Universidade dos Açores

Description

Negotiations are underway on the new European Union (EU) Water Directive (1), which will regulate the protection and sustainable use of Europe’s water resources. However, the proposal foregoes environmental quality standards specifically tailored to sensitive groundwater species and fails to require biomonitoring for groundwater ecosystems. Despite repeated calls for consideration (2, 3) since the first Water Framework Directive in 2000 (4), groundwater ecosystems are at risk of being overlooked yet again.