Türk Bilimsel Derlemeler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Ebru COKAY, Serkan EKER, İlgi KARAPINAR, Seyda KARAMAN

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Priority Pollutants,Specific Pollutants,Water Framework Directive,Water Resources

Özet: European Water Framework Directive (WFD) focuses on sustainable management of water resources. The main objective of WFD is to achieve“good water status”. Surface, coastal and transitional waters must achieve “good ecological and chemical status” to protect human health,water supply, natural ecosystems and biodiversity. Physical and chemical pollutions in the water resources have great importance to achievea good chemical status. The main concern in the chemical pollution is the priority pollutants and specific pollutants. Priority pollutants to bemonitored have been determined by directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and the Council. On the other hand, EU Member andcandidate countries have to determine pollutants which are specific to their countries based on the point and non-point sources. Moreover,there is an urgent need in determination of Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) for the listed specific pollutants. This paper summarizesthe methodology used by EU countries in determination of specific pollutants for implementation of WFD. Turkey as an EU candidate countryhas got an action plan for the implementation of WFD to natural water. The recent studies conducted in Turkey for the implementation of WFDregarding to specific pollutants were discussed.

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