ICPR – International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine
ICPR publishes ground-breaking monitoring and evaluation system for micropollutants – this will allow to verify the 30 % reduction target in the Rhine River basinh
To be able to regularly review the reduction target defined at the Conference of Rhine Ministers, a monitoring and evaluation system for micropollutants was developed. This Europe-wide pioneering system is now being published as ICPR technical report.
An international delegation from Uruguay River and Lake Titicaca visited the ICPR on 25 and 26 November. The exchange of experiences, preceded by several video conferences, was all about how to reconcile the use of a water body with ecology. The programme also included a field trip to the fish pass visitor centre "Mosellum" and to the flood protection in Cologne.
On the occasion of "RhineCleanUp 2022", the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) and the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) organised a waste collection campaign. They were supported by the AWO neighbourhood office Südliche Vorstadt.
ICPR to start updating climate change adaptation strategy in autumn 2022 – third extreme low water in 20 years underlines urgency
For the third time since 2003 and 2018, the Rhine and many water bodies in its catchment area are affected by a pronounced low water level. The current event is comparable to the low water of four years ago. At the gauges in Duisburg-Ruhrort (Germany) and Lobith (Netherlands), the water levels even fell below those of 2018.
ICPR publishes ground-breaking monitoring and evaluation system for micropollutants – this will allow to verify the 30 % reduction target in the Rhine River basin
Micropollutants are pollutants dissolved in water that can only be removed with major effort and, even in low concentrations, may…