NURSECOAST-II publishes practical guide for seasonal wastewater investment

The NURSECOAST-II Business Models Hub translates research on business barriers and incentives into a practical investment and replication guide for small and decentralised wastewater treatment solutions in seasonal tourist regions.

The Hub is designed for municipalities, water utilities, tourism site owners, investors, and technology providers working with systems up to 2000 PE.

At its core, the Hub brings together four evidence streams:

• Investor priorities translated into actionable guidelines
• Mapping of suitable small WWTP technologies and suppliers
• Overview of financing instruments (grants, loans, public aid schemes) across partner countries
• Business-linking and matchmaking between end-users, investors, and technology providers

Three key insights stand out:

1. Small wastewater plants need solutions that can tolerate strong load variation, not only solutions that perform well at stable design loads.
2. Financing must be considered at the same time as technology selection because the target users are often small municipalities, public utilities or tourism facilities with limited investment capacity
3. Replication requires trust-building: the project experience showed that distributed national and bilateral engagement can be more effective than a single centralised matchmaking event.

The Business Models Hub is a route map for moving from an identified seasonal wastewater problem to a
financially and technically realistic project.

The Business Models Hub is available on the NURSECOAST-II project website.

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