MEPS PUSH FOR TOUGHER EU-WIDE SURFACE WATER STANDARDS
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's environment committee has tabled changes to a proposed European Union (EU) directive on surface water standards that could prove a mixed blessing for water utilities. On the one hand, its MEPs' call for a further 31 pollutants (including dioxins and PCBs) to be considered for tough controls or an outright ban in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, would make drinking water sources cleaner and easier to treat. But on the other, utilities would have to make sure these chemicals are not present (or are strictly limited) in ...
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