14. Challenges for the future

They can be broken down into items and fall within the framework of European water policy (see the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC and its translation into various water laws):

• preserve and regenerate the quality of the resource ;

• produce safe drinking water that protects human health;

• treat all urban and industrial wastewater, through collective and/or non-collective sanitation;

• achieve good ecological and chemical status for all water bodies (environments) as quickly as possible;

• consider certain waters as new resources:

  • stormwater, city = watershed,

  • seawater, desalination,

  • water recycling at industrial...