Insight – David Lloyd Owen

The WFD’s shaky economic framework.

We are starting to get some firmer hints about what complying with the Water Framework Directive may cost. This April, the sixth version of the final report (draft) ‘Cost-Benefit Analysis on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive’ was published. Even now, sixteen years after the directive was first mooted, and seven years after it was passed, “there is little ...

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