ENDS Report 349, February 2004, pp. 11-12
1 February 2004
British and Dutch scientists are at loggerheads over the importance of English nitrate discharges in causing water quality problems off the Netherlands coast. The dispute adds to pressure on the Environment Department which has been in secret negotiations with the European Commission over whether measures - costing hundreds of millions of pounds - are needed to reduce nutrient loads to the Humber and Thames estuaries.
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Further information:
- 1 Transport and fate of UK nutrient input to the southern North Sea, AE1221, available at www2.defra.gov.uk/research/project_data/
- 2 Integrated report 2003 on the eutrophication status of the OSPAR maritime area, available at www.ospar.org
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