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Ernst Kunze (DE), Heinz Plümer (DE), Beril Hawerman (SE). The
special relation between the Association and Messe München and
IFAT is vivid even today. Later during that year the first business
meeting of the EWPCA took place in Stockholm at a very exciting
political time.
The founding fathers in the first Management Committee:
(from left to right) Ehrhardt (NL), Fouquet (FR), Truesdale (UK),
Kunze (DE), Plümer (DE), Hawerman (SE)
From its establishment, the Association contributed very positively to
the development of the European policy process on variety of topics
such as sewage sludge, urban wastewater treatment, bathing water
quality, and recently flood risk management, climate change, research
and many more. Nowadays, the EWA is one of the few pan-European
NGOs officially involved in the implementation process of the Water
Framework Directive.
Due to its growing scope and membership, in 1999 the European Wa-
ter Pollution Control Association became the European Water Associ-
ation (EWA) as it is known today – representing major professional
water associations in Europe and promoting the sustainable and im-
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