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The Water Framework Directive (WFD, Directive 2000/60/EC), organizes superficial, continental, coastal and subterranean water management to prevent and reduce contamination, fostering its sustainable use, protecting the water medium, improving the situation of aquatic ecosystems and alleviating the effects of flooding and drought.
To this effect the WFD among other things requires member states to maintain and improve the chemical status of water masses, which requires monitorization and assessment of a series of listed substances (priority and preferential), likewise compliance with environmental quality standards (EQS) for each.
The main driver of the MONITOOL project is to respond to the demands of the European Directive to assess the chemical status of transition and coastal waters, enabling the use of positive sampling devices (PSD) in a regulated context improving WFD implementation.
The MONITOOL project (New tools for monitoring the chemical state of transition and coastal waters under the WFD), is co-financed by the European transnational cooperation programme Interreg Atlantic Area 2014-2020 and its consortium is made up of organizations from Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, the United Kingdom and Italy. Its main purpose is to provide a solid database of dissolved and labile metals in transition and coastal waters to adapt to current EQS (EQS; 0.45 µm filtered), i.e. the correct EQS-DGT for PSDs to assess the chemical state of waters under the WFD.
