Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) have voiced their support for revising the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) to reduce the growing pollution caused by rainwater and nutrients and, at the same time, try to make the wastewater treatment plant sector less energy-intensive.
The draft report by Nils Torvalds (Renew Europe, Finnish) was adopted (60 votes in favour, 10 against and 6 abstentions) (see EUROPE...