Key Water Issues and Challenges
- Occasional flooding in the spring
- Estonia has more than 1,400 natural and manmade lakes. Among these, the smaller needs to be monitored in agricultural areas
- Air polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast; however, the amount of pollutants emitted to the air have fallen steadily since the 1980s
- Start-up of new water purification plants, decreasing the load of wastewater
- Coastal seawater is polluted in certain locations
Contact GWP Estonia
Ms. Maret Merisaar maret.merisaar@taltech.ee
More Information
AQUASTAT -FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/main/index.stm
UN-Water Statistics http://www.unwater.org/statistics_KWIP.html
Source: www.cia.gov; http://data.worldbank.org; www.unwater.org