这份扩展的摘要总结了第二次世界水资源大会之后，欧洲河流控制污染的努力。它详细介绍了国际社会如何向欧洲各国政府施压，要求它们加强卫生程序，以及如何在莱茵河上安装早期预警系统。1980年，制定了新的生态质量目标，“整个流域”作为一个实体的概念促使2000年制定了《欧盟水管理框架指令》。公用事业公司和政府之间的国际合作已使欧洲水体的水质有了显著改善。然而，论文指出，还有一些新的威胁，包括农药流失、内分泌干扰物、药物、杀菌剂、抗生素和洪水。欧洲国家之间的合作进入了一个新时代，由此产生了一项关于工业废水对莱茵河和易北河受纳水域影响的研究合作，以及一些国际河流会议的决议和建议，在这些会议上，来自公用事业、政府、工业和农业的科学家和决策者会面并交换意见。 仅包括扩展摘要。

This extended abstract summarizes efforts to curb pollution in European Rivers after World Water II. It details how international societies pressured European governments to increase the sanitation process and how early warning systems were installed on the Rhine. In 1980 new ecological quality objectives were instituted, and the concept of the "whole river basin" as an entity spurred creation of the EU Framework Directive on Water Management in 2000. International cooperation between utilities and governments has caused dramatic improvements in water quality in European water bodies. However, the paper points out that there are new threats that include pesticide runoff, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals, biocides, antibiotics, and flooding. A new era of cooperation between European countries has resulted in a research collaboration on the impact of industrial effluents on the receiving Rhine and Elbe waters, as well as the resolutions and recommendations from a number of international river conferences where scientists and policy makers from utilities, governments, industry and agriculture meet and exchange views. Includes extended abstract only.