David Lloyd Owen The WFD has a new purpose: climate change is being integrated…from 2015.

Another week, another conference; another opportunity to fret about the Water Framework Directive! While CIWEM’s Lille conference did not touch on finance, the emerging work on the interaction between the impacts of the directive and climate change is arguably more interesting

The bad news is that no country has yet stated that it expects to comply with the WFD by 2015, while in Belgium and Hungary, no ‘good’ rivers have yet been identified. Indeed, a lot of work remains to be done at the country level in defining what a water body is and what issues may affect it. This is ...

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