agriculture
All fields, meadows and vineyards are dehydrated on ground and surface water to the Rhine. For intensive and improper farming, the waters and their biological communities burden in various ways, in particular by nutrient and pesticide input.
Control of diffuse nutrient and pollutant sources is difficult. Nutrient surpluses caused by too high a dosage of fertilizers, which are, for example, deployed outside the growth phase and not at all or received only a small part of the plant. The rest seeps into the ground water or is washed off aboveground. Farming with row crops such as vegetables, maize, sugar beet and wine, cover the ground only slightly, are particularly critical from the perspective of water conservation.
A good solution offers other aquatic protective measures , the more natural, more ecologically oriented agriculture. It serves the objectives of water and nature protection, when practiced in closed cycles, a surface adapted to livestock density and appropriate fertilization.
2007 called for the responsibility for the protection of the Rhine Ministers of the Rhine States again, the inputs of pollutants and nitrogen compounds mainly from diffuse sources such as agriculture to reduce further to endanger human health, the ecosystem or its uses not.