4.6 Energy costs of Water

Table 2.5.3 Energy costs of stricter water treatment legislation

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In their 2001 Annual report, Thames Water highlighted the problem of treatingwater to ever higher standards and the effect that the increased energy consumption has on climate change. [26] The water sector is identified as the third most energy intensive sector in the UK according to the Marshall report on energy use in UK [see reference 27].