The Water Framework Directive protects water bodies in the European Union. Waters should become better.
In 2000, the European Union Parliament passed a new law. The law is called the EC Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC. It is also known as the WFD. The WFD wants the water in the European Union to be good. The water should be good by the end of 2015. In special cases by 2027.
There has been a plan for the waters in Hesse since the end of December 2009. The plan says what needs to be done to make the water good. There is an expert report in Bad Homburg. The report is called "Realization potential of the structural measures proposed for the watercourses and obstacles to migration in the town of Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe". The plan shows what can be done on the rivers in Bad Homburg. It was checked whether the proposals were possible. They looked at whether the proposals would achieve the environmental goals. In the end, they decided what should be done about the streams in Homburg. The town of Bad Homburg is talking to the authorities. The town is making the proposals bit by bit. The state of Hesse is helping with this.
The cities have to implement the WFD. The European Union checks whether the measures are working. The state of Hesse regularly asks the cities what they have done.
