Financing the Water Framework Directive

The EU’s big plan involves big money. David Lloyd Owen looks at the challenge for the UK water sector.

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) has certainly started to be felt in the UK. It has given the environmental consulting sector a notable boost, but such is the difficulty of pinning down just what the directive actually means, let alone costs, that we have little to indicate what their endeavours have attained.

After some years of estimates and debates, the ...

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