RIWA-Rijn launches Data Dashboard

The RIWA-Rijn Data Dashboard provides online access to the measurement data that RIWA-Rijn reports annually in the Rhine Water Quality Report. These data come from the member drinking water companies, Rijkswaterstaat and its own measurement programme at Lobith. The dashboard contains concentrations of more than 1,500 substances.

RIWA-Rijn annually reports concentrations of substances in the Rhine and assesses the water quality of the Rhine on the basis of 3 tests: comparison with the ERM target values, the purification task index testing Article 7.3 of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the progress towards the 30% reduction target of the Rhine Ministerial Conference. The results of the first two tests and the substance measurement data are presented in the new Data Dashboard.

The RIWA-Rijn Data Dashboard can be accessed at https://www.riwa-rijn.org/data-dashboard/.

With the launch of the Data Dashboard, RIWA-Rijn is following the digitisation trend and increasing the accessibility of data on the quality of Rhine water. Not only for the protection of this source of drinking water, but also for research into the distribution of substances in the environment and the ecological and toxicological state of the Rhine in a broad sense.

Dutch Minister to start talks with Germany over PFAS discharges

Dutch Infrastructure and Water Management Minister Barry Madlener will enter into talks with the German government on reducing discharges of PFAS in industrial wastewater in the Rhine. The House of Representatives instructed the minister to do so in a motion.

The motion was prompted by media reports that the German government does not intend to set limit values for PFAS in discharge permits of the German chemical industry on the Rhine. As a result of German discharges, three to four times more PFAS flows into our country via the Rhine than is safe for human health, according to the RIVM.

 

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