| UKWIR commission WRc to develop a tool to assess the sustainability of wastewater treatment processes to achieve water quality objectives for the Water Framework Directive
Implementation of the Water Framework Directive is likely to necessitate tighter effluent consent standards and more extensive wastewater treatment. The pursuit of the environmental target of higher final effluent quality may result in adverse impacts on other important aspects of the environment, such as greenhouse gas emissions.
UKWIR commissioned WRc to run a project to help address these issues and has provided the water industry with a spreadsheet tool to assess the sustainability impacts of achieving good quality ecological status under the Water Framework Directive via different treatment processes. The tool will enable water companies to better estimate the implications on sustainability indicators, which include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, landtake, acid gas emissions etc, resulting from the Water Framework Directive. This will be important for companies in helping predict more accurately the GHG emission changes affecting their business in forthcoming years and what implications these changes may have on meeting requirements of future carbon trading schemes.
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