Celebrating the first World Lake Day with water research & water news

"We celebrate all things that lakes do for us and spotlight the problems of pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss that threaten their ecological integrity," states Suzanne McGowan, NIOO's department head of Aquatic Ecology on the first UN World Lake Day.

"At NIOO, we are working to secure lakes and freshwaters of the Netherlands," Suzanne adds. Some examples. This past week, our water research was featured in two national newspapers.

Volkskrant

In the Volkskrant, Lisette de Senerpont Domis and Sven Teurlincx shared their knowledge on the front page this weekend: on the poor water quality, the causes and the consequences. What can we do to help our freshwater ecosystems, also having the European Water Framework Directive in mind...
Read on (in Dutch, pay wall) 

Algemeen Dagblad

The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper interviewed two of the citizen scientists working on the co-creation project ‘Water op de Kaart’ with Rosan van Halsema. They decided together to study the sewage overflows in cities. These have major effects on the urban water quality, but are mostly overlooked.
Read on (in Dutch, you can make a free login)

Greenland fieldwork blog

We do not study all 117 million lakes of our planet. But also in other countries than the Netherlands, we study the well-being of lake ecosystems. In Greenland for instance, focusing on greenhouse gasses with methane cycling in arctic lakes. For a peek into the fieldwork of this summer, read on in our researchers' blog:
The highs and lows of fieldwork in Greenland (in English, free to read on this NIOO website).

Water quality is so important for us all, for the whole planet. Not only on World Lake Day! Year-round attention is needed. Let's keep researching those important waters of our world.