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This Drinking Water Directive - DWD (Recast) Union-Wide and Country Profiles section offers a concise overview of the current implementation of the DWD Directive. Designed for a broad audience interested in discovering the latest results on drinking waters status and challenges at both European and country level, this section provides easy-to-understand summaries and visual content. For more expert users, detailed data reported by countries can be explored through the DWD Expert Dashboards, accessible at the bottom of this page, in each profile's page or collectively in the DWD Expert Dashboards section.
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The Drinking Water Directive (DWD) in a nutshell
High quality, safe and sufficient drinking water is essential for public health and well-being. The Directive EU 2020/2184 (recast Drinking Water Directive - DWD) is the EU’s main law regulating the access to and the quality of water intended for human consumption. The Directive applies to all water intended for human consumption.
For further information on the targets for drinking water quality in the EU, please refer to the Annex "What are the targets for drinking water quality for in the EU?".
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Reported data by countries under the recast Drinking Water Directive
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