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Figure 3.6 illustrates 15 pesticides with the largest number of monitoring sites for groundwater and surface water, respectively. For groundwater, atrazine, simazine, desethylatrazine, diuron, and bentazone are the five most often reported pesticides in the dataset. In surface waters, 11 substances were reported as monitored at more than 6 000 monitoring sites.

Figure 3.6 Number of monitoring sites for the pesticides with the most frequently reported number of monitoring sites in groundwater and surface waters

Source: WISE SoE – Water Quality database, version April 2019.

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ganzlcat (Catherine Frances Ganzleben) 14 Jan 2020 16:17:19

I don't quite understand the title of this figure. Is this the numbe rof monitoring sites at which these individual pesticides were detected?
Christine Meisinger (invited by Caroline Whalley) 16 Jan 2020 11:38:18

See previous comment under 3.1.1.1 - most of these substnaces are no longer authorised for use in the EU
kodesvit (Vit Kodes) 03 Feb 2020 14:36:50

Fig 3.6 shows organics that are not pesticides: 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethane, carbon tetrachloride
Karin Nienstadt (invited by Caroline Whalley) 06 Feb 2020 16:32:40

some of the AS shown are banned since many years in teh EU (atrazine, DDt, etc), however they are persistent in the enviroment and therefore obviously they will continue to appear in samples. This would need to be explained somehow (at least adding footnotes).

Please consider checking teh whole report according to this observation. Thank you

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