Recycling municipal wastewater for irrigating green spaces
In the City of Kalmar in south-eastern Sweden, treated wastewater effluent originating from a municipal wastewater treatment plant is disinfected by further filtration and UV light treatment and then used to water green spaces. The process: treated wastewater is...
Let It Flow
“I use recycled water for irrigationโ โ the words are written in big letters on a tanker trailer pulled by a tractor as it bumps along through the city of Kalmar on the south-east coast of Sweden in June 2024. The trailer is on its way to a green area...
Everything on the table
Itโs mid-January โ a time of year when drought and water scarcity still feel like distant problems forย many people in Central and Northern Europe. But not on this Thursday morning at the Renaissance Hotel in Brussels. Once again, several now well-known...