Contaminated Water: EU Increases Pressure on Spain!

📍– clean water is becoming a private matter!

In March 2024, Spain was reprimanded by the European Court of Justice because the country had failed to take adequate measures to protect its waters from nitrate contamination.

One of Spain's greatest environmental disasters is the contamination of soil and water bodies with nitrate through excessive fertilizer use. 11 % of surface waters in Spain are contaminated with nitrates at concentrations exceeding legally established limit values.

In the case of groundwater, according to the European Environment Agency report, the value is even 37 %. Nitrate contamination not only disrupts local ecosystems and endangers biodiversity, but also poses a serious risk to the health of the local population.

In 2022, the EU Commission had already sued Spain. More information in the truuinfochannel➡️