WWTP’s struggle with quaternary treatment and energy neutrality • Water News Europe

Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) struggle with reaching two objectives in the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. Implementing energy-intensive additional treatment technologies and heading for energy neutral WWTP’s seems contradictory. Two technical managers from wastewater treatment plants in Romania and Greece explained how they deal with this during a webinar about the implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) organised by the European Water Association (EWA) and Xylem.