David Lloyd- Owen Politicians and the public need to walk before the sector can fly.

• From: Vol 10, Issue 10 (October 2009)
• Category: Analysis
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21st Century Water, a conference organised by the Oxford Centre for Water Research earlier this month, highlighted a series of policy and practical tensions about how water and wastewater could and should be managed.

The need for flexibility in water management is underscored by the growing conflicts between various water management issues. Thus what constitutes good ecological water status is being affected by climate change. The Water Framework Directive will become more flexible in considering whether we preserve what we have now, or accept that biodiversity will change. A compromise in ideal terms will ...