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Sustainable wastewater management in the European Union

The scope of this paper is safe and sustainable sanitation in agriculture. Specifically, the idea of the paper is to find out the existing regulations and guidelines concerning a sustainable wastewater management in the European Union (EU), regarding small-scale on-site wastewater management, and particularly regarding the safe reuse of the source separated wastewater streams in the agriculture. These are identified, first, on the EU level, and second, on a national level. As specific countries for the purpose of studying national legislation three European Union Member States, namely Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden are studied. Furthermore, a part of the study is dedicated to the World Health Organisation