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Bisphenol-A and drinking water: EurEau's position While BPA exposure is mainly through food, its presence in drinking water must not be overlooked. ✅ We welcome the EU-wide ban on BPA in food contact materials. 🚫 But more is needed: a full REACH restriction should follow. 🕒 And as BPA limits under the Drinking Water Directive are revised, drinking water suppliers need realistic timeframes in which to adapt. Let’s ensure clean, safe water with a strong, future-proof chemicals policy. 📄 Read our position paper: https://lnkd.in/efyg4jUM

Trilogue agreement reached on a minimalist EU Soil Law After lengthy negotiations, co-legislators have reached a trilogue agreement on the Soil Monitoring Directive. While this is a first step toward assessing soil health across the EU, the outcome falls short of what’s needed to truly protect and restore Europe’s soils. ⚠️ No binding targets for soil improvement ⚠️ Minimal EU-wide harmonisation — Member States can define “healthy” soil individually ⚠️ A watch list of soil pollutants, including PFAS and pesticides, remains only indicative Healthy soils are vital — not only for agriculture, but also for protecting our water resources, building climate resilience, and mitigating the effects of droughts and floods. We urge stronger ambition going forward. Europe’s soils—and our future—deserve better.

💧 EurEau joins call for urgent action on EU water pollution Alongside 16 other organisations, EurEau has signed a joint open letter to Commissioner Roswall, the Polish Council Presidency, and MEPs urging a swift trilogue agreement on the Priority Substances Directive. The letter highlights our shared concerns over: ⚠️ The slow progress on updating EU water pollution standards ⚠️ Proposals to weaken and delay implementation of the Water Framework Directive We call on EU policymakers to stop the delays and take meaningful action to protect Europe’s waters. 📄 Read the letter here: https://lnkd.in/eVvfcFGs

EurEau joins the call for an ambitious REACH revision Together with partners across sectors, we’ve signed a letter to President von der Leyen urging the European Commission to deliver a strong and forward-looking REACH Regulation. ✅ Phase out the most harmful chemicals ♻️ Prevent circular pollution 🚀 Drive innovation and support responsible businesses A competitive circular economy depends on safe, trusted materials. Europe must lead with future-proof solutions — not yesterday’s chemicals. 🔗 Read the letter: https://lnkd.in/eqjwxCcv

EurEau Position Paper on TFA TFA is a very persistent, very mobile member of the PFAS group of chemicals. Due to its numerous emissions pathways, TFA is now ubiquitous in the water cycle and hard to remove by conventional water treatments. The EU should recognise the urgent necessity to stop TFA emissions to the environment as a first step towards addressing this pollution. Because TFA is an atypical PFAS, the catch-all “PFAS Total” parameter is inadequate for TFA. A specific TFA limit value in drinking water should be set based on health-derived criteria. Where this value would require additional drinking water treatment, these costs should be borne by the polluters. You can read our position paper on why TFA should be phased out here: https://lnkd.in/eQTQnm26

Water Resilience: MEPs call for mainstreaming water into EU policy Read our reaction: https://lnkd.in/eq2yTdmh

🚨 𝗘𝗨 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 🚨   Today, an important meeting aimed at advancing an agreement to update the EU’s water pollution standards was scheduled—but it has been 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 due to lack of progress...   Tackling water pollution is a 𝗻𝗼-𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿. Clean water is 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 (think society, nature, business, life...) On top of this, the vast majority (𝟳𝟴%) of Europeans want to see 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! 🏞️💧   Public and private entities are united on this! Together with representatives from drinking water and wastewater service providers, environmental civil society organisations, healthcare professionals, social partners, recreational fishing associations, business relying on clean and healthy water as well as local authorities, 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 for surface and groundwater and ensure that Member States take action on the new pollutants in the upcoming River Basin Management Plans! 💪   Additionally, we stand firm in our opposition to any proposals that seek to weaken the current Environmental Protections under the Water Framework Directive (WFD).   People are fed up of delays - it's high time for policymakers to act! 🌍 Read the joint letter here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/evUQ9Wc3   #WaterPollution #EnvironmentalProtection #Sustainability #WaterFrameworkDirective #CleanWater #WaterManagement #OneHealth

What a whirlwind! Thanks to the magnificent Pablo Micallef of Water Services Corporation - Malta for hosting the eureau Network of Communications Managers in Malta these last days. And thanks too to Anna-Lena Fomin , Belén Ramos Alcalde, Benoit Moulin, Lars Fischer, Marit Karjus, oliana antonopoulou , Sinead Egan, Stefan koch, Sofia Barré and William Davies for their active contributions to advancing our discussions on tap water, reputations, and on PFAS. Big thanks too to Massimo Costa, Roland Pace and Mark for guiding us around and answering our many questions, and of course to Francesca Pizza for an insight to water reuse.

Second day of the EurEau ENCM meeting coming to a close here in Malta. Honoured to have been able to join such wonderful communicators and policy advocates on all things water related from across Europe. Great sharing of knowledge and experience on subjects ranging from PFAS to Reverse Osmosis to SWO! There was also some lively exchanges on how to promote the high quality of our tap water. My thanks to the always incredible Caroline Greene for organising two days packed full of meaningful knowledge exchange and to all the speakers who shared their experiences so generously. Of course, final and biggest thanks go to Pablo and his colleagues from Water Services Corporation - Malta who were such fabulous hosts and who shared their underground reservoir and RO water treatment plant to us, as well as sharing their plans and campaigns. Best of luck with the new marketing campaign! I look forward to putting my newfound knowledge to good use back in Uisce Éireann Irish Water Since Covid, the true value of these face to face meetings has been largely discounted but spending time in the company of such committed water colleagues has no equal.

📨 Companies across sectors have written to Ursula von der Leyen, asking the #EU Commission to deliver an ambitious revision of REACH that prevents harm from chemicals and avoids "circular pollution". ✒️ The companies signing the letter want a strong #REACH to phase out the most harmful chemicals. This is the only way to move towards a competitive circular economy where recycled materials can be trusted, they write.   🧡 And we agree — a strong #chemicals regulation drives innovation and rewards responsible companies. The EU's competitiveness must be built on future-proof chemicals and innovations — we cannot compete with yesterday’s solutions.   👉🏾 Read the companies’ letter to Ursula von der Leyen and her Commissioners here: https://lnkd.in/dHfsin5R ROCKWOOL Group — Polestar — IKEA — Tarkett — Paxymer AB — Decathlon — Ragn-Sells — Marshall Group — IDUN Minerals — Hazardous Waste Europe — Nudie Jeans — Coop Danmark — EurEau — ChemSec