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"en.20111213.35.2-609-000"2
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"Eutrophication – excessive nutrients – greatly threatens the EU’s water standards and the Irish Environmental Protection Agency has said that phosphorus is the most dangerous nutrient to Ireland’s waterways.
Cleansing agents, which use phosphates to reduce the effects of water hardness, are the biggest cause of phosphorus pollution in European waters. They are the cause of ‘red’ and ‘green’ tides: algal blooms which destroy water standards in rivers and seas. At present, the removal of phosphorus compounds is a long and expensive process for waste water treatment units and not all Member States have the appropriate technology to do this.
To that end, I wholly welcome the content of this report in relation to reducing the phosphate level in detergents and washing powders as much as possible – and eliminating them if possible in the future. As a result of these restrictions that are to be implemented across the whole of the EU, the people of Ireland and the EU will have cleaner water and the threat from vast growths of algal blooms, river weed and water weeds which choke other aquatic life, will be reduced."@en1
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