Water Recycling Toolbox

Welcome to the Water Recycling Toolbox & Helpdesk

Get started with water recycling and stabilise local water supply! This website provides practical guidance and concrete inspiration for municipalities, water companies, and other interested parties.

Once considered mainly a challenge for southern regions, water resilience has, over the past decades, become an urgent issue in the Baltic Sea Region 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 WaterMan 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.

About the Water Core Group of Euroregion Baltic and the WaterMan project

The Water Core Group of Euroregion Baltic is an international exchange and cooperation platform on water management for local and regional authorities in the Baltic Sea Region. The forum was established in 2005. It provides this Toolbox & Helpdesk and initiated the WaterMan project within whose framework the Toolbox was created.
WaterMan promotes a region-specific approach to water recycling, which makes use of the alternation of too much and too little water that has become typical in the Baltic Sea Region to strengthen the resilience of local water supply. On this basis, the project supports municipalities and water companies in adapting their strategies.