Circular Water Challenge off to a good start!
How can we mitigate the water scarcity on islands through re-use of water? That is what the new collaborative project ”Circular Water Challenge” will focus on in the course of 2019.
The six students involved in the project has now started to make plans for their field work together with the project leaders Christian Pleijel and Anders Nordström, KTH Executive School.
”It’s fantastic to work with these young smart people on such an important topic.” says Christian. The project is a collaboration between KTH Executive School, WaterCentre@KTH, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholms Läns Landsting, Nordiska Skärgårdssamarbetet, the municipalities of Värmdö and Södertälje (Sweden), Kökar and Brändö (Åland), and Forstyrelsen (Finland), and other interested partners.
The students will do field work during the spring and summer, and lessons will be compiled and discussed towards the end of the year. Water scarcity is a huge problem on many islands in the Baltic Sea as well as in many other parts of the world. David Nilsson, director of WaterCentre@KTH says, ”Islands are interesting to work on because they are well defined systems. But the idea of circular water of course goes far beyond these islands.”