Best practices outside the Baltic Sea Region

While water recycling is still relatively new around the Baltic Sea, it has long been established in other parts of Europe – across semi-arid and humid regions alike. To learn from these experiences, the WaterMan project explored a wide range of real-world examples and at-scale approaches across the EU, with a view to adapting them for broader application across the Baltic Sea Region.

Below you’ll find documentation of these study trips, offering further inspiration on how to get started with water recycling.

Water recyling & utilisation of alternative sources of water are still a rather new topics in the regions around the Baltic Sea. However, it is a long-term practice in southern Europe. The Region of Murcia in Spain is a benchmark in this field, which has managed to increase the rate of reusing wastewater from 0% to 98% within the last 20 years. The WaterMan study trip,  carried out in cooperation with the General Directorate of Water of the Region of Murcia, provided profound insights into this success story from different perspectives, including on-site visits to practical examples of water recycling and the opportunity to get into a direct exchange with key stakeholders & proficient experts on how to re-organise water supply against background of climate change and increasing water scarcity.