Publication Category: Reports & Annual Reports

Our water service providers deliver day and night. Every time you need safe and clean tap water for drinking, hygiene and sanitation, all you have to do is open a tap. These same service providers conduct used water away from our homes and businesses to treat it before it is returned to the environment, recycling […]

It was another busy year for EurEau, with drinking water, PFAS, plastics, waste water, taxonomy and innovation high on our agenda. Read about our work in our annual report. 

From morning until night and even while we sleep, our water operators are working 24 hours a day, and seven days a week, to deliver sustainable services that keep each of us safe and healthy. The complex processes that we put in place to meet the challenges of delivering these services are adapted to their […]

Our water service providers deliver day and night. Every time you need safe and clean tap water for drinking, hygiene and sanitation, all you have to do is open a tap. These same service providers conduct used water away from our homes and businesses to treat it before it is returned to the environment, recycling […]

What did EurEau get up to in 2020? Read on to find out, and what 2021 brings us!

Water services are essential services. They support the sustainable development of our societies and are fundamental to realising the ambition of the EU Green Deal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but little is known about them. This is because the infrastructure is mainly underground, accessible only to a few service engineers and also because […]

Our world is changing rapidly and so are water services. Innovation is key to guaranteeing the affordability of safe, sustainable and resilient water services for the decades to come. Water service providers are well aware of the challenges and have identified a number of technological and non-technological areas requiring particular innovation efforts with a view […]

Water Framework Directive, Drinking Water, Reuse, microplastics, micropollutants, Extended Producer Responsibility; 2019 brought a lot of change and opportunity for the water sector. Our review of the year covers some of our work over the twelve months. 

EurEau commissioned a study to assess the potential applicability and relevance of extended producer responsibility (EPR) in order to develop clear policy guidance to address emissions of micropollutants and microplastics from products. A key finding of the study confirms that control-at-source measures should be the starting point of mitigation measures.

If water is a public good, it is also true that providing water services is an activity with important technical, economic, managerial and regulatory aspects – whether carried out by public or private operators. Water services are essential in supporting the sustainable development of our societies, but still little is known about them. This is because […]