That is very good news and contradicts what I had read somewhere else a few years ago.

houpla - entirely practical and not only very good for the environment but far more cost efficient as well. Instead of constructing sewage treatment facilities, build composting plants that are virtually labour free. automatic steam cleaning of containers. Where there are elderly people who are incapable of shifting these containers it's been my experience of the French that voisins will step in. No more broken pipes, heavy rain won't mean sewage running in the streets.

Back home in Brighton the usual Christmas morning swimmers were advised not to go why - untreated sewage in the water. Lots of surfers and wind surfers suffer infections all year round. Even if the water companies were taken back into public control the problem would still exist. 

And now we hear that in France you are having to make compost heaps in the New Year. In the Lake District in northern England the septic tanks are polluting the Lakes via run-offs.