Spanish wastewater funding falters

Spain’s wastewater plan is running into trouble as the country’s economy flounders. It has brought the role of private sector funding to the fore.

Spain’s faltering economy has hit the finances of the country’s regional governments hard, threatening the implementation of the government’s ambitious water quality plan to bring wastewater facilities into compliance with European directives by 2015.

When the plan was approved in June last year, the Environment Ministry made it clear that, with the ending of largescale EU funding ...

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