a few seconds agoEuropean Commission Initiative for Water Drinking Law
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)“Conde Nast Traveler” wrote in 2016 that in many countries of Europe, such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and others, you can safely drink water from the faucet. But in countries like Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia or Montenegro, the popular travel magazine recommended buying bottled water. [...]
“Conde Nast Traveler” wrote in 2016 that in many countries of Europe, such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and others, you can safely drink water from the faucet. But in countries like Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia or Montenegro, the popular travel magazine recommended buying bottled water.
The state of drinking water has recently turned into concern for Brussels, prompting the European Commission to propose a review of legislation that improves water quality and access to it.
The safe drinking “is essential to public health and the well-being of people”, is the argument put forward in its efforts to argue why the legislative proposal aimed at guaranteeing that right was adopted.
The Commission thus responds to the first successful initiative of European citizens “Wright2Water”, which collected more than 1.6 million signatures in support of improving the approach of all Europeans to safe drinking water.
The new regulations will require member states to improve the approach of all citizens, especially vulnerable and marginalised groups, which currently have a more difficult approach to drinking water.
In practice, this means creating infrastructure to have such water in public space, launch information campaigns on its quality, and encouraging public administrations and buildings to provide access to drinking water.
Subsequent water consumption is estimated to help families in Europe save more than 600m euros a year, and can contribute simultaneously to reducing plastic waste.
