Alarms about E. coli bacteria in the bathing water surface almost every summer, creating problems…
Henrik Aspegren
CEO
Henrik Aspegren has been the CEO of Sweden Water Research since August 2019. Henrik has worked with water and waste issues for over 30 years in a series of managerial positions. He has had the opportunity to participate in a time when the municipal water services have has changed from beeing a specialized local municipal concern to being organized in regional collaborations with a broader mission, where water is seen as a limited resource that we all have to economize.
Internationally, the need of developing water-wise communities has been evident for a long time. Now Sweden also needs to develop the infrastructure to contribute to a sustainable water management in the cities.
Henrik also has a tangible interest in development issues and, in parallel with the operational, has conducted active research at Lund University, where in 1995 he defended his thesis on how biological processes at treatment plants can be combined to recover phosphorus from waste water. Since then, he has published research results in a number of different fields within the water and environment area. Since 2014 he has been an adjunct professor at Lund University with a research focus on how to change the urban water system in order to be adapt it to global challenges and opportunities to create water-wise cities.
