PILOT RESULTS CONVINCE DEFRA TO CONTINUE CATCHMENT LEVEL FOCUS
September 1st, 2013
EVEN if the UK department for environment, food and rural affairs (DEFRA) has yet to decide whether managing water supplies on a catchment area basis is a positive move overall, it is happy that the past two years’ pilot projects have created some tangible benefits.The move has been inspired by the year 2000 European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD). A DEFRA policy paper published in May argued that catchment-based management was useful “when trying to address the significant pressures placed on the water environment by diffuse pollution from both ...
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