Get started with water recycling and stabilise local water supply!
This Toolbox provides practical guidance and concrete inspiration for municipalities, water companies, and other interested parties in the Baltic Sea Region.
Once considered mainly a challenge for southern regions, water resilience has, over the past decades, become an urgent issue around the Baltic Sea as well. Accelerated by climate change, increasingly extreme shifts in precipitation patterns now result in periods of either too much or too little water, at times causing severe challenges for local water supply. One effective way to counter these problems is water recycling, especially when the reuse of municipal wastewater and the creation of micro-loops in households and industry is combined with the retention and recirculation of rainwater.
How to use the Toolbox & Helpdesk
In the Water Recycling Toolbox, you’ll find inspiration as well as practical advice for getting started with water recycling in different formats, including:
- Replicable technical-organisational solutions for typical use cases, adapted to the specific conditions of the Baltic Sea Region.
- Examples of regional pathways that illustrate strategic approaches to stabilising local water supply through water recycling.
- A wide range of further resources and materials, including documentation of policy dialogue, practical tools to shape local measures and strategies, and best practices from other parts of Europe.
- Need tailored advice? Our Helpdesk connects you directly with practitioners for further, in-depth, personal support.
Click on the links above to browse and get inspired, or get IN THE LOOP – our three‑edition guide to get started with water recycling for a short, hands-on tour.
Map of model regions and pilots
The graphic below illustrates key elements of a Baltic Sea Region–specific approach to water recycling. If you would like to learn more about these elements, explore related pilot measures within the WaterMan project, and connect with the “knowledge agents” of our Helpdesk, please click on the links below.
About the Water Core Group of Euroregion Baltic and the WaterMan project
The Water Core Group of Euroregion Baltic is an international exchange & cooperation platform on water management for local & regional authorities in the Baltic Sea Region that was established in 2005. It is the initiator of the WaterMan project, in the framework of which the Toolbox was created.
WaterMan promotes a Baltic Sea Region-specific approach to water recycling, which makes use of the alternation of too much and too little water that has become typical for humid areas in the EU to strengthen the resilience of local water supply. Building on this approach, the project supports municipalities and water companies in adapting their water supply strategies. The WaterMan project is co-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) and implemented within the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.
More information about the project: interreg-baltic.eu/project/waterman/
