title: Workshop 5 (synthesis): water pollution abatement as related to ecosystem protection.
abstract: Water pollution exerts major stress on water systems and the challenge is to ensure security in river basins for both water-dependent activities and for the aquatic ecosystems. The workshop focused on protection of good ecological status, quality criteria, priorities for action, and on achievement of sustainable improvements. The three keynote speakers presented the concept applied in the EU Water Framework Directive, the need for a multi-stakeholder collaboration in order to reach a good ecological status of waters and a concrete example of interactive planning of water protection measures in a transboundary lake. The additional paper presentations addressed specific pollution problems in catchments, the effect of environmental user fees and ecosystem indicators.
authors.affiliation: Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helsinki Comission), Katajanokanlaituri 6B, FIN-00160 Helsinki, Finland. claus.hagebro@helcom.fi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hagebro
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014881:Water Supply