Water Framework Directive an overview for

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Water Framework Directive an overview for

• Kevin Prior
• 26th September 2003

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Some Global Water Facts

• lt 1 of the planets water available for human
  consumption
• gt 1.2 billion people have no access to safe
  drinking water

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European Water Situation

• 20 of EU surface water is seriously threatened
  by pollution
• 65 of EU drinking water from groundwater sources
• 60 of EU cities overexploit their groundwater

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Time scale

• 22nd Dec 2000 - WFD came into force
• 22nd Dec 2003 - brought into force in U.K.
• 22nd Dec 2009 - Programme of measures to be
  established River Basin Management Plans
  published
• 22nd Dec 2012 - Programme of measures to be
  operational.

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Key objectives (Article 1)

• Prevent further deterioration, protect and
  enhance the status of aquatic ecosystems and
  associated wetlands
• promote sustainable water consumption, and
• contribute to mitigating the effects of floods
  and drought.

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Overriding quality objective (Article 4)

• Good surface water status
• Good groundwater status

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Key elements

• The introduction of water management based on
  river basin districts
• Programme of measures to improve water quality
• Ecological quality will be key in assessing
  good

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Main Changes

• It is a Framework - NOT a set of rules
• River Basin Management system
• Abstraction Control - includes prior
  authorisation requirements
• Pollution reduction
• Recovery of costs for water services

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How to achieve good water quality

• Integration of different policy areas by EC
• Diffuse pollution - minimise remove persistent
  compounds in chemical formulations
• IPPC - clean production techniques
• Consumers - environmental friendly products

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Scope

• All inland surface waters,
• Ground waters,
• Transitional waters ( inc. estuaries and lagoons)
• Coastal waters
• integrate quality and quantity

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Indicative List of Main Pollutants

• Organohalogens.
• Organophosphorous cpds.
• Organotin compounds.
• Endocrine disrupters, .
• Persistent hydrocarbons and persistent and
  bioaccumulable organic toxic substances.
• Cyanides.
• Metals and their cpds.
• Arsenic and its cpds.

• Biocides and plant protection products.
• Materials in suspension.
• Substances which contribute to eutrophication
  (including NO3 PO4).
• Substances which have an unfavourable influence
  on the oxygen balance (and can be measured using
  parameters such as BOD, COD, etc.).

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Areas of Concern
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How to address those concerns

• Reduce diffuse pollution
• Tighter Discharge Consents
• More Direct Toxicity Assessment
• Environmental Friendly Products
• More recycling / reuse of water

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Who does it affect ?

• The water industry
• Agriculture
• Development Construction Industry
• Abstraction Licence holders.
• Direct Discharges to controlled water
• Trade Effluent Consent holders
• You and me !

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Where WFD impacts BACS
Discharge Consents / Incidents
Discharge Consents / Incidents
Good Water Quality
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Issues for You

• How does this affect your products / services?
• What are the implications for your customers ?
• What does that mean for you ?

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Real Example in Consumer Goods

• Product Specification
• reduces diffuse pollution
• reduces persistent compound
• reduces eutrophication tendency

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Use of EDTA phosphonates

• Very effective chelants - wide range of uses
• EDTA Non-biodegradable, so persists in the
  environment
• Phosphonates promote algal growth and hence
  oxygen depletion
• Nearly all chelants end up in rivers
• Concerns about long term adverse effects

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EDDS - an Alternative Chelant

• S,S-EthyleneDiamineDiSuccinate (EDDS)
• Naturally occurring
• Readily Biodegradable
• Classed as non-hazardous

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EDDS - Readily Biodegradable
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Other Opportunities

• Increase reuse of water
• Increase recycling
• Augmented Technical Services
• Process Optimisation
• Product substitution
• Inventory Management

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Other reports

• Towards sustainable products a contribution to
  the UK Government strategy on sustainable
  consumption and production
• Report by the Advisory Committee on Consumer
  Products and the Environment (ACCPE)

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For more information

• www.defra.gov.uk/environment/water/wfd/ faq.htm
• http//europa.eu.int/eurlex/pri/en/oj/2000/1_32720
  001222en00010072.pdf

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