Attachments
The first part of this report addresses the critical challenges we face in managing wastewater and considers the implications for people and the environment across different sectors, and how these may be influenced by issues such as population growth, urbanization and climate change.
The second part looks at solutions and how these challenges can be turned around. Finding appropriate solutions will require innovation at both ends of the pipe. Innovation to reduce the volume and contamination of wastewater produced, how to treat or even reuse the waste, and how to do it in an affordable sustainable way. The report reviews how the production and treatment cycle can be better understood and managed so that through better investment and management major environmental, societal, and economic dividends can be achieved.