Federal Act
on the Protection of Waters
(Waters Protection Act, WPA)

¹ With­in the lim­its of the ap­proved cred­its and the avail­able re­sources, the Con­fed­er­a­tion shall grant the can­tons glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for the con­struc­tion and pro­cure­ment of:

a.

in­stall­a­tions and equip­ment for re­mov­ing or­gan­ic trace sub­stances at cent­ral waste wa­ter treat­ment plants where they are re­quired to com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions on dis­char­ging waste wa­ter in­to bod­ies of wa­ter;

b.

sew­ers that are con­struc­ted in­stead of in­stall­a­tions and equip­ment in ac­cord­ance with let­ter a.

² The com­pens­at­ory pay­ments are made if the con­struc­tion or pro­cure­ment of the in­stall­a­tions, equip­ment or sew­ers was be­gun after 1 Janu­ary 2012 and with­in 20 years of the entry in­to force of the amend­ment to this Act of 21 March 2014.

³ The pay­ments amount to 75 per cent of the at­trib­ut­able costs.