Indicator: CO-42 Area/volume/number of coastal lagoons and lakes protected from discharges or where discharges are managed
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Issues for which this is an indicator and why
Coasts and Oceans - Societal responses to direct pressures of human activities on the coasts and oceans - Responses to pressures of coastal activities
Discharges of pollutants into coastal lakes and lagoons can place significant pressure on the ecosystems in and around these water systems and ultimately on the ecosystems of coastal waters. Various measures are employed to protect these water courses from discharges. Surface area, volume of water, or, in the absence of any other measure, number of water bodies in some way protected from discharges is a crude physical measure of the effectiveness of the response.
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