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“The treatment of wastewater in decentralised plants will remain an important component in wastewater management in Europe. Long term it is expected that the number of small-scale wastewater treatment plants in the EU will reach around ten million.
In Germany, for example, centralised wastewater treatment facilities operated by local authorities serve around 92 percent of the population. This figure is not expected to exceed 95 percent, even in the long term. Which means that as many as four million people in Germany will remain without access to municipal wastewater treatment facilities, says Dr Elmar Dorgeloh of ‘Abwasser Dezentral’, a newly created independent consultation and information centre on decentralised wastewater treatment.
Currently the wastewater from this sector of the population is being treated in around two million small-scale facilities with four to 50 population equivalents. By 2015, according to Dorgeloh, over half these facilities need to be completely rebuilt, or at least brought up to modern standards.
The same picture is seen in many other European countries. “France, Italy, Poland and Spain also have potential for at least one million small-scale treatment plants each. In the long term we could easily be looking at around ten million mini wastewater treatment plants in the European Union,” affirms the wastewater expert.” |
