The Environmental Liability Directive

During the research of my recent article on The Czech Environmental Act, I had an interview with Ondřej Vícha, who is responsible for the transposition of the Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/EC) into the Czech legal order and drafting of the Czech environmental liability act.

He told me that it was expected to come into force next month, which was the main angle on the news story. But I thought I would expand a little bit and talk a little bit about why this act is important in relation to our environment and specifically to the protection of our waters.

Ondřej Vícha on the Czech Environmental Liability Act (ELA)

I spoke to Ondřej Vícha regarding the Czech environmental liability act; here are some of the questions and answers he provided me with.

Ondřej Vícha is responsible for the transposition of the Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/EC) into the Czech legal order and drafting of the Czech environmental liability act.

A Story That Didn’t Make it!

I recently spent way too much time researching a story that ended with nothing. And instead of just forgetting about all the work and leaving it laying around on my PC, I thought I would share it anyway. As I’m not submitting it as a news story for our Environmental News Online site, I will just drop it here.

The ‘JKL’ of Water Pollution

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Jardine Water Purification Plant is the largest of its kind in the world. The plants obtains and clean water for the entire city of Chigaco, it processes about 3 billion litres a day.
This is only half the capacity of what the plant is capable of. When running on full capacity, the plant can provide over 6 billion litres of clean water a day.