Water pricing – the key to WFD compliance?
- From: Vol 10, Issue 10 (October 2009)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
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- Related Companies: European Commission and Veolia
The power of the European agricultural lobby could slow the implementation of far-reaching water pricing policies. Identifying polluters is only part of the problem.
Introducing water pricing policies that take into full account the “wider picture” of water users’ effects on water resources is a key factor for compliance with the EU’s Water Framework Directive (WFD), a senior EU official has said.
Speaking at a CIWEM conference in Lille, France, at the end of September, the head of the water unit in the ...
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