EDITORIAL
February 2017
OWEN MCINTYRE 

ARTICLES
Re-designating water bodies in Denmark by passes the Water Framework Directive objectives
LASSE BAANER 
Assistant Professor, Department of Food and Resource
Economics, University of Copenhagen

Sustainability in the English water industry – Part I
An evaluation of how the introduction of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004  into the water industry may improve sustainable water provision
MICHAEL JAMES BOWES 
Scholar and Solicitor, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

Brexit and the future of Scottish fisheries: key legal issues in a changing regulatory landscape
THOMAS APPLEBY  
Associate Professor in Property Law, 
University of the West of England
JAMES HARRISON
Senior Lecturer in International Law, 
University of Edinburgh

CASE COMMENTARIES
Choppy (coastal) waters: injurious affection under the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965
FIONA PARRY  
Partner, Hill Dickinson LLP

South Africa – constitution, environmental management and municipal legal obligations
SIYABONGA MKHIZE  
Associate, Environmental and Clean Energy Law
Department, Shepstone & Wylie Attorneys, 
South Africa

US litigation and regulation: selected issues
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYERS 
The EPA’s mighty power
Section 101(f) of the Clean Water Act: common sense to further a common purpose
Senate approves $4.9 billion for drinking water
New Mexico Supreme Court to determine if copper rule prevents, rather than encourages, ground water pollution
New tools for water quality trading
One certain thing: water should be clean
Flint litigation: an interim update
Surveying the landscape – an approach to compensatory mitigation
And a watershed runs through it

STRATEGIC ISSUES
USA 
A high-level review of the changes, revisions, and additions to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed 2017 Construction General Permit regulating
stormwater discharges from construction activities
ROBERT H. CRESPI AND MICHAEL G. GORDON
Environmental Law Group, Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC

European Union  
Headline Issues – 2016 In Review
JOANNE SELLICK
Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Plymouth

Scotland 
Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland)
Regulations 2011 – proposed amendments
Aquaculture consenting
The ‘Hydro Nation’
Non-household water charges
SARAH HENDRY
Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee

BOOK REVIEWS
Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance 
Janice Gray, Cameron Holley and Rosemary Rayfuse (eds)

Challenges of the Changing Arctic:  Continental Shelf, Navigation and Fisheries 
Myron H Nordquist, John Norton Moore and Ronán Long (eds)