Area (100 sq km): 42
Population (mill): 1.4
GDP ($ bill):  7
Water per cap:  9426 m3
Water withdrawal:
total 1.6%
agriculture 5%

• BRIDGE provides thresholds for Water Framework Directive
• EC announces €30 million for joint research programming in metrology and the Baltic ecosystem
• Analysing ecological responses to chemical pressures: methodological challenges and statistical solutions
• First call for proposals open for INTERREG IVC programme
• Round Table Resolution on "Application of the principles of the Water Framework Directive in Transboundary Waters" within the framework of the VIII International Environmental Forum “Baltic Sea Day”

• Living Lakes Eastern European
• 2nd International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control
• European Large Lakes Symposium 2006: Ecosystem Changes and Their Ecological and Socioeconomic Impacts