News

WAVE – Strategic innovation initiative within the water sector

Hooray! An important and exciting news for water issues across all sectors - it's now confirmed that one of the five programs that received funding within Impact Innovation is Water for Vital Environments - WAVE.
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New research project: Sustainable Pricing of Water

Techniques for a more circular use of water exist, but we need to broaden the perspective to achieve sustainable water use. But how can we make it profitable and create incentives for property owners to implement technologies that support more sustainable water use?

Ellen Edefell in a (sort of) new role

It is now confirmed that Ellen Edefell will fill the project manager role to develop R&D projects within our focus area of biologically stable drinking water.
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Further delay of the start-up of the pilot plant

Unfortunately, the company Aquagreen announced last week that the start-up of the pilot at Ellinge WWTP will be further delayed.

New article describes marine sediments as an urban reservoir for viable E. coli

The article “Marine sediments are identified as an environmental reservoir for Escherichia coli: Comparing signature-based and novel amplicon sequencing approaches for microbial source tracking” examines how bacterial communities in marine sediments change along a coastline to determine if they are affected by human activity.

20 millions SEK to Innovative stormwater impact mitigation

A new research project, Innovative stormwater impact mitigation, has been granted 20 million SEK from Formas to develop and demonstrate innovative practices for stormwater treatment.
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Two new Master’s thesis proposals spring 2024

We are happy to announce two new Master’s thesis proposals for the spring 2024
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Final conference for the Rest till Bäst project

A range of results were presented at the project Rest till Bäst final conference in Malmö last week.
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The pilot is now being assembled at Ellinge WWTP

Now all the parts for the pilot are in place at Ellinge.
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How does the pretreatment of wastewater affect the energy balance …

... and the need for volume for the biological treatment?
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The 2nd Swedish Conference on Sewage Sludge Biochar 2024

It's time to make space in your calendar for the 2nd Swedish Conference on Sewage Sludge Biochar, 15-17 October 2024.

New report on the city’s sources of microplastics

Emma Fältström, a PhD student at Sweden Water Research, and Heléne Österlund at Luleå University of Technology have in their report “μrban Plastics – Sources, sinks and flows of microplastics in the urban environment” mapped out how microplastics from land enter our water environments, with a focus on stormwater.