BRITAIN – WATER ECJ
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITISH local towns and cities have been highlighted as not complying with the European Union's (EU) 1991 urban wastewater directive, which insists that sewage receives secondary treatment before being discharged into rivers and the sea. Sending the UK a legal final warning letter threatening action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the European Commission named 15 UK urban areas with populations exceeding 15,000 who are covered by the directive, but whose sewage systems are legally too poor. Nine are in Northern Ireland: Bangor, ...
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