Assessing pollutant loads in inland and coastal waters for continental Europe

FATE project

Institute for Environment and SustainabilityJoint Research Centre

Information provided by Faycal Bouraoui and Bruna Grizzetti

RecommendationsRecommendations

Some results of FATE

AssessmentAssessment Estimation of spatial nitrogen and phosphorus balance

Assessment of nutrient pressures (source apportionment)

Scenario AnalysisScenario Analysis Impact of agri-environmental practices on water quality

Impact of climate changes on water and nutrient requirements in agriculture

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu

ATLAS collecting data available at EU27 to assess pressures from nutrients

Europe-wide Harmonized

Geographical Database

Europe-wide Harmonized

Geographical Database

Collection of landscape and climate data for multimedia environmental modelling at EU27

JRC – Ispra

Spatial Nitrogen Diffuse Emissions

estimated by the GREEN model

(average on 10 km grid)

Nitrogen Diffuse Emissions: input of nitrogen into surface waters originated from diffuse sources, including agriculture, atmospheric deposition and scattered dwellings.

The map of diffuse emissions for each source can be provided

Estimation of nutrient pressureDiffuse Emissions

JRC – Ispra

P scattered dwellings (kg P/ha)

Nutrient input from diffuse sources: P from scattered dwellings

An analysis of pyrethroids in European waters

J. Env. Management, submitted (2007)

• A class including 63 chemicals

• Corresponding to 3.4 % of total insecticides used in Europe (Eurostat 2003)

Emissions of lindane to soils via direct application (1991) and through atmospheric deposition (2001)

Modelling estimates of seawater

concentrations of PCBs from land-based

sources(ng/m3)

Assessment of 1,2-Dichloroethane emissions to water

Modelling: • Main multimedia

mechanisms: advection, volatilization

• Half-life in water: 10 hrs, mainly due to volatilization, as degradation is negligible in water

EPER points

On going development

• Retrospective and perspective scenario analyses to evaluate the impact of EU policies (1985-2020)

For more info see:

http://139.191.170.104:5353/fileadmin/Documentation/Reports/RWER/EUR_2006-2007/EUR_22526_EN.pdf