HELCOM BASE PROJECT RELEASES FINAL FINDINGS ON BALTIC FRESHWATER QUALITY

摘要

The EU-funded HELCOM BASE project has wrapped up after two years by releasing a summary of its final findings, data and recommendations. Key outcomes highlighted in the summary include an estimation of the nutrient inputs from scattered settlements by size, and research into pharma-ceuticals that shows current wastewater treatment processes cannot remove the inflammatory drug diclofenac, much of which enters the Baltic Sea with a probable negative effect on living organisms.