Potentiella högvärdesprodukter från produktionsvåtmarker / Potential high value products from production wetlands
As a part of the BUCEFALOS project, which aims to decrease the eutrophication in the Baltic Sea, production wetlands has been constructed in the creeks Tullstorpsån and Albäcksån in the municipality of Trelleborg in Scania. The plants in the wetlands are to be continuously harvested, thereby ensuring that the phytoremediation efficiency of the wetlands is […]
Water-energy nexus in urban water utilities: a brief Norwegian outlook / Vann-energi nexus i urbane vannverk: et norsk perspektiv
Urban water utilities have realised the importance and the possibility of improving the energy efficiency of their operations; and also have started looking at urban water utilities as essentially energy-producers. The driving factors are economic issues, environmental goals, self-image, public demands etc. Even Norway which enjoys an abundance of clean and green energy and freshwater, […]
Skyfallet i sydvästra Skåne 2014-08-31 Fokuserat mot konsekvenser och relation till regnstatistik i Malmö / The cloudburst in Southwestern Scania 2014-08-31 With focus on consequences and in relation to rainfall statistics in Malmö
During the late summer of 2014 there was a series of intense rainfall events, which caused severe flooding in several municipalities in Sweden. The by far worst event was the cloudburst in Scania, 31/8, not only in terms of rain intensities and volumes, but also the fact that the more intense parts of the rainfall […]
Interdisciplinary Water Research Network Building within Nordic and Baltic Countries / Tvärvetenskaplig nätverksbyggande inom nordisk och baltisk vattenforskning
Viable Water Management and Governance for Futures (VIWAFU), a professional network for international and interdisciplinary collaboration amongst researchers from the Nordic and Baltic countries, was built for providing and sharing knowledge on water management and governance for future policy and decision making during the years 2012–2014. VIWAFU organized four workshops for MSc students, PhD students, […]
Skyfall och avrinning från gröna tak med sedumvegetation / Heavy rainfall and runoff from green roofs vegetated with sedum
Precipitation and runoff are increasing due to changes in climate and urbanization. As a result, more stormwater is produced and needs to be handled locally. Internationally, roofs with vegetation are regarded as a suitable measure for sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS), but have not been much studied in Norway. For five years, two extensive green […]
The necessity for re-thinking the way we plan our cities with the focus on Malmö / Towards urban-planning based urban runoff management
The project is proposed in order to highlight the necessity for developing a climate-robust urban planning. The City Blueprint baseline assessment was chosen to evaluate the sustainability of urban water cycle services (UWCS) of Malmö and compare it with Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Copenhagen as cities which experienced extreme water events in their history. Although […]
Microbiological pollution of the southern Baltic sea from small urban catchments following rain events of different intensities / Mikrobiologiska föroreningar av södra Östersjön från små urbana avrinningsområden vid olika regnintensiteter
The microbiological quality of storm water runoff was monitored at four traffic-related sites in Trelleborg, Sweden to assess how microbiological pollution depends on rain intensity. Flow proportional storm water runoff samples were collected during the initial runoff and analyzed for total coliform bacteria, Escherichia coli, Clostridium perfringens, and intestinal enterococci. Microbiological pollution in storm water […]
Undersökning av kalciumkarbonatförekomsten i vombfältet / occurrence of calcium carbonate in the infiltration area in the water treatment installation Vombverket
In a study of the neutralization capacity and limestone content the artificial recharge area of the Sydvatten waterworks Vombverket in Vomb, Skåne, five samples from different locations in the area was collected, sieved and acidified with hydrochloric acid. The neutralization capacity measured as calcium carbonate content was found to vary in the different sandy soil […]