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Clean Air and Water – Challenges for Ireland

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Clean Air and Water – Challenges for Ireland

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  1. To insert your company logo on this slide • From the Insert Menu • Select “Picture” • Locate your logo file • Click OK • To resize the logo • Click anywhere inside the logo. The boxes that appear outside the logo are known as “resize handles.” • Use these to resize the object. • If you hold down the shift key before using the resize handles, you will maintain the proportions of the object you wish to resize. Clean Air and Water – Challenges for Ireland Jack O'Sullivan Environmental Management Services Add CorporateLogoHere

  2. Clean Air and Greenhouse Gases • Global climate disruption is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. • Ireland has experienced an increase of 130 % in greenhouse gas emissions from transport - excluding aviation and maritime. • Germany, on the other hand, has experienced only a 5 % increase.

  3. Clean Air– A Challenge for Ireland • In Europe generally, road transport is becoming cleaner because of increasingly strict emission standards • In Ireland, fuel efficiency is decreasing

  4. Exceedance of air quality limit value of PM10 in urban areas (EEA member countries), 1996-2002

  5. Clean Air – a Challenge for Ireland • Increases in transport demand continue to outstrip positive innovations. • We are locked into patterns that are not easily changed in the short term • Failure to implement the National Spatial Strategy

  6. Clean Water – a Challenge for Ireland • Ireland has an abundant supply of fresh water, constituting a key resource in economic, amenity and aesthetic terms. • EPA assessed 13,200 km of river channel: 70% of our main river channels are in satisfactory condition; 17% are slightly polluted; 12% are moderately polluted and less than 1% are seriously polluted.

  7. Clean Water – a Challenge for Ireland • Fish kills are attributed predominately to eutrophication (24%); agriculture (18%), municipal discharges - mostly sewage (7%), industrial sources (8%) and other sources • 85 per cent of lakes surveyed showed a satisfactory condition, but eutrophication is again reported in many of the larger lakes

  8. Clean Groundwater – a Challenge for Ireland • Deficiencies in the management of livestock wastes and poor siting of wastewater treatment systems such as septic tanks have contaminated groundwater. • In 2002, 25 per cent of groundwater samples tested showed faecal contamination; 23 per cent had nitrate levels in excess of the EU guideline value (EPA).

  9. Clean Coastal Seas – a Challenge for Ireland • The main threats to European coastal areas are: water pollution and eutrophication, loss of biological diversity, land use and landscape deterioration, and coastal erosion. • Dublin Bay – an improvement, yet further threats. • Bantry Bay and the Shannon Estuary.

  10. Sustainable Clean Air and Water – Challenges for Ireland • Integration of policies: • Air and water quality, waste reduction and elimination, transportation, energy demand management, sustainable energy sources, spatial planning, biodiversity, conservation – all are linked.

  11. Achieving Sustainability – A Key Challenge • Sustainable human communities must behave like natural ones, living comfortably within the natural flow of energy from the sun and plants, guided by economic values which are in harmony with personal and ecological values.

  12. Jack O’Sullivan Environmental Management Services Outer Courtyard, Tullynally Castle, Castlepollard, County Westmeath • Phone: 044 966 2222 • e-mail: jackosullivan@eircom.net

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