Water efficiency needs to be seen as part of the EU’s wider resource efficiency efforts and integrated into that wider agena. For example, the energy sector accounts for some 45 per cent of water use. If the public perception of the intrinsice benefits and successes of, for example, energy efficiency and waste recycling can be harnessed — by not treating water efficiency as separate from the wider resource efficiency agenda — the resistence to change will be less.
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Results of the Consultation
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