Waterpollution in the North Sea

Aurich is located close to the North Sea so we thought this might be also a good topic in connection with the water-project.
 
The Northsea is encircled by densely populated industrial nations and is used intensively. Although the situation in the North Sea has improved in the last years, for this 80 meters deep European inlandsea until yet an all-clear cannot be given.

Here are still landing up to
1,5 million barrels of  nitrogen,
  100.000 barrels of phosphorus,
    28.000 barrels of zinc,
    11.000 barrels of  lead,
     4.500 barrels of  copper,
        950 barrels of arsenic,
        335 barrels of  cadmium and
          75 barells of quicksilver.

Heavy consequences are feared, all first for the mud-flats which are  the "upbringing" for many fishes and birds. By the initiation of the Federal Government all countries bordering on  the North Sea have already decided in the middle of the eighties, to devide the harmful substance-entry in half. Also they want to finish the waste-incineration on sea. The protection of the North Sea was enlarged through the Agreement from the 22.9.1992, in which the burning of waste on sea and the input of industrial pollution is prohibited for the Northatlantic states by an international law.

Nadine and Yvonne Memenga
BBS II Aurich
 

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