Today’s ‘Water Resilience Strategy’ by the European Commission makes bold claims but offers little ambition in protecting water resources from one of its most persistent threats: pesticide pollution.
Rather than tackling pollution at its source, it leans heavily on downstream „clean-up“ technologies that still need to be developed. Even more concerning is the lack of support for existing legislation aiming to transition Europe towards a farming model that does not rely on pesticides. PFAS pesticides and their highly persistent and harmful breakdown product, TFA, are entirely overlooked, despite growing scientific concerns about their resulting widespread pollution.
