New challenges facing Europe’s waste water treatment plants present opportunities for improving sustainability — European Environment Agency

New challenges facing Europe’s waste water treatment plants present opportunities for improving sustainability — European Environment Agency

More investment is needed to make urban waste water treatment plants fit to meet the difficult challenges posed by the impacts of climate change, as well as the presence of antibiotics and other micro-pollutants in waste water, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing published today. (...)