On Monday 28 May, the European Commission adopted a proposal aimed at encouraging and facilitating water reuse in the European Union for agricultural irrigation. The new regulation will help farmers to use waste water not fit for drinking to mitigate water shortages.
The draft regulation provides in particular for: (1) minimum requirements for the reuse of treated waste water from urban waste water treatment plants, covering microbiological elements (e.g. levels of E.coli bacteria) and...