Investigations and video series: environment


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Going against the flow - Part 4 (7/2022)

A video series and an investigation on the quality of surface and underground water across the European Union. CONTENT OF PART 4: IV. IN THE LAND OF RELAXED POLLUTERS --- IV.1. Taxes for polluters: Almost always friendly --- IV.2. Cases of inconsequential water pollution fees --- IV.3. Polluted sites and soils: Knowingly abandoned dumps

Going against the flow - Part 3 (3/2022)

A video series and an investigation on the quality of surface and underground water across the European Union. CONTENT OF PART 3: III. WATER LAW: FALLACIOUS AND SYMPATHETIC TO POLLUTERS --- III.1. A "most satisfactory" law? --- III.2. European commission: "Water legislation is broadly fit for purpose"

Going against the flow - Part 2 (11/2021)

A video series and an investigation on the quality of surface and underground water across the European Union. CONTENT OF PART 2: II. THE SAD STATE OF THE UNION --- II.1. Underground waters: overview of the evaluation --- II.2. Most surface water bodies below good status --- II.3. Explaining the status of surface waters --- "Interlude about lithium" --- II.4. Recent evolution of water quality: almost insignificant

Going against the flow - Introduction and Part 1 (5/2021)

"Going against the flow" is a video series and an investigation on the quality of surface and underground water across the European Union. CONTENT OF PART 1: I. BASIC CONCEPTS --- I.1. Water bodies --- I.2. The status of water bodies --- I.3. Criticizing the assessment --- I.4. Ecological potential

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The European union of water polluters (11/2017)

Usually, neither journalists nor scientists tell you the truth about the law of the European Union related to the quality of groundwater and surface water. Within the EU, the commercial, financial, judicial, industrial and political ruling classes all have a vested interest in downplaying or hiding water pollution due to EU law. I explore the hidden depths of this law. I give examples of the impacts of that toxic law in a river basin district I know well for having lived there for years: Artois-Picardie in northern France. I sometimes look at other basins within the EU. I clarify the content of the law so that everyone could understand how it perpetuates the unacceptable poisoning of our common source of life.