ReCircWater

Innovating Stormwater Management and Reuse

ReCircWater addresses one of the South Baltic Region’s fastest-growing challenges: polluted urban stormwater flowing into our rivers and the Baltic Sea, carrying nutrients, heavy metals, road salt, oil, microplastics, PFAS, and other organic contaminants.

Climate change, with prolonged droughts and sudden cloudbursts, makes rainwater both a flooding risk and a wasted resource. Since water knows no borders, runoff from one country quickly becomes everyone’s problem.

From challenge to resource

ReCircWater is a regional and scalable initiative that turns stormwater into a resource rather than a burden. The project develops and tests compact, cost-effective treatment solutions designed for dense urban areas, enabling safe reuse by utilities and municipalities.

In parallel, we work on:

• building a common understanding of legislation and best practices

• developing practical stormwater management guidelines

• providing training and capacity building across Denmark, Sweden, and Poland

Project goals

ReCircWater aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of combined multi-step treatment technologies for managing pollutants and nutrients, as well as testing novel methods for stormwater analysis.