WATER CONSERVATION

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE FINDINGS of three EU funded research projects have concluded that water consumption could be reduced by as much as 90 per cent in certain economic sectors, namely tanneries, abandoned industrial sites and waste water management. The European Commission is now advising industry to further reduce their water consumption through internal recycling. The projects (names TANNET, INCORE and WASTE WATER CLUSTER), integrated small research projects tackling specific and complementary parts of water cycle treatment. The idea was to examine how their ...


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