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The country struggled to come to terms with a world of feast or famine when it came to water and wastewater news, starting with extreme floods and ending with winter warnings of drought.
2005 is likely to be remembered by the environmental business community for Gordon Brown's shock announcement that Government was scrapping the Operating Financial Review just months before it was due to come into effect but there have been plenty of other changes for the number crunchers to get their teeth into.
Climate Change and Energy issues dominated the headlines in both the environmental and mainstream press during 2005, with positive moves such as the start of emissions trading in Europe, the formal ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and expansion of renewable capacity showing the ways towards mitigating the effects of climate change, while hurricanes, droughts, floods and famines highlighted the dangers of complacency.
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