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Box 4 Acknowledging water and environmental aspects in the mining sector

The European Aggregates Association acknowledges in a brochure on “Water management”[1] “that any extraction of a mineral resource will potentially generate qualitative and quantitative impacts on water resources” and describes the sectors role in relation to river basin management planning, including limiting the impacts on water quantity and quality. In other publications, the European Aggregates Association focusses on the gravel processing sites and suggests different measures focusing on reducing the impacts on water including recycling of process water.[2]