Wastewater Treatment: The Challenges and Opportunities
By Pamela Taylor, Chief Executive, Water UK
We are moving into a new phase in our quest to improve water quality and the environment to an extent perhaps deemed unthinkable by our predecessors. The Water Industry supports the principles enshrined in the Water Framework Directive which seek to manage and improve water quality and the environment in a sustainable way by challenging the need for remedial measures from diffuse pollution sources and also recognising that end-of-pipe solution is only part of the answer. In defining solutions to waste waters all industries should continue to consider and review the impacts of the key facets of sustainability: environment, economic and social.