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Pressures causing failure to achieve good status

The results from the second RBMPs show that European waters remain under multiple pressures from water pollution, over-abstraction and structural change from different human activities. These pressures affect the good functioning of water-related ecosystems, contribute to biodiversity loss, and threaten the long-term delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to society and the economy. To ensure sustainable management of water resources, better policy implementation will be needed to improve the coherence between economic, societal and environmental goals. 

There are ample possibilities for improving water management to achieve the objectives of the WFD, through stringent and well‑integrated implementation of existing legislation and introducing supplementary measures that reduce the pressures causing failure to achieve good status. In the following paragraphs, the challenges in water management and the measures needed to progress towards good status are summarized.