Regina Finn will appear in front of the committee this afternoon (4 March) along with Ian Barker, Head of Water, Land and Biodiversity at the Environment Agency, and Nick Cartwright, Environment and Business Manager at the Agency.
Another session will be held on March 6, with Peter Gammeltoft from the European Commission the sole witness.
The sessions follow on from last week’s evidence given by representatives of the water industry and pharmaceutical industry, who thought evidence was weak for EC proposals to add 15 chemicals to the ‘priority substance’ list controlled under the Water Framework Directive.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.