Herbicide guide aims to cut water clean-up costs

As Environment Minister David Maclean points out in a foreword to the guide, "regular use, especially of the persistent triazine herbicides, has led to the contamination of drinking water sources at concentrations breaching the limits set down in the EC drinking water Directive." An ENDS survey earlier this year revealed that water companies in England and Wales are having to invest £800 million in equipment to remove pesticides from dri