At least half the world’s population suffers from polluted water. And the situation is set to worsen. Water pollution is on the rise due to indirect ‘diffuse’ sources of pollution from both agricultural and urban environments. What policies can we put in place to address the diffuse water pollution challenge and reverse the trend of increasing degraded waters?
On 6 April 2017, Hannah Leckie of the OECD Environment Directorate discussed emerging solutions in OECD countries, that can guide the design and implementation of policies to control diffuse water pollution. The presentation was based on the recently published OECD study on water: Diffuse Pollution, Degraded Waters: Emerging Policy Solutions.