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Article: Holistic approach to water environment - Government consults on river basin planning.
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- December 13, 2005
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M2 PRESSWIRE-13 December 2005-UK Government: Holistic approach to water environment - Government consults on river basin planning(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The Principles for achieving an increasingly holistic approach to managing the water environment are set out in a Defra and Welsh Assembly Government consultation launched today.
This represents a further step towards meeting the challenging demands of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), a Europe-wide plan which considers water not just in terms of individual rivers, lakes or estuaries, but acknowledges its inextricable relationship with ecosystems as a whole.