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TABLE 5: The main implementation and investment implications of the water directives
DIRECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION
IMPLICATIONS
INVESTMENT IMPLICATIONS LIKELY INVESTOR
The Water Identification of river basins and The directive does not itself Regional governments
Framework their assignment to individual introduce the requirement of (river basin
Directive river basin districts significant capital costs. The main authorities), industry
(2000/60/EC) costs relate to: the institutional and agro-industry
Establishment of competent autho- set-up; and establishing an
rities, using existing structures or appropriate monitoring system
creating new ones, and the covering groundwater and surface
establishment of administrative
arrangements
waters
Drinking Water
Member states are obliged to draw
up river basin management plans
by the end of 2009, setting the
objectives to be reached in rivers,
lakes coastal waters and
groundwaters across the EU
Identification and assessment of Upgrading of water supply systems Municipalities, water
Directive the current status of infrastructure in order to minimise pollution utilities/companies
(98/83/EC) risks and to provide adequate
The main responsibility for the
upgrading of infrastructure will be
service
borne by municipalities or by public Upgrading of the equipment
utility companies delivering water of water treatment stations to
ensure the removal from water of
Special attention should be given
to cooperation with authorities
all substances listed by the directive
responsible for sewage collection and Establishment of efficient
treatment, as the construction monitoring infrastructure to
of water supply systems should be measure the quality of water
accompanied by sewerage
connection infrastructure
delivered to customers
Urban Waste Ensuring appropriate technical Upgrading of sewage collection Municipalities, water
Water Treatment infrastructure networks utilities/companies,
Directive industry
(91/271/EEC) Establishment of emission limits for Construction of wastewater
concentrations of specific substances
in urban wastewater discharges
treatment plants
and from certain industrial sectors Installation of monitoring
equipment to control the quality
Establishment of “sensitive areas”
and “less sensitive areas”, influenced
by the quality of discharged waters
of effluent water
S T R AT E G I C M O V E S
Attention should be given to
coherence with the Sewage Sludge
Directive when constructing
wastewater treatment plants