A primary topic of discussion at a weeklong international water conference here can best be summed up in two words: ‘dirty water’.
Ironically, the venue for the vibrant debate – focusing mostly on pollutants, industrial waste and human sewage – is a city described as home for ‘world class water’.
And rightly so, claims Gosta Lindh, managing director of the municipally-owned Stockholm Water Company. Unlike people in most other parts of the world, ‘We are blessed with an almost limitless supply of good, clean drinking water,’ he boasts.
The company, which provides fresh water to some 1.2 million consumers, claims a functioning ecological cycle: re-use of waste products after sewage water-treatment and the use of sludge as agricultural fertiliser. Read more
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