…nged nor polluted serve as a model – the final objective being: living and free-flowing rivers. At least, that’s the theory. In practice however, progress has been slow. Although many rivers are no longer as heavily polluted as before and some floodplains have been rehabilitated, there remain many unresolved issues. It’s clear that by 2015, no EU country will have achieved the objectives of the WFD (and some have hardly started …). That’s why it’s…