Urban water management

Cities around the world increasingly face pressure from both growing populations and climate change, challenging urban water supply in terms of available resources and in terms of treatment of increased wastewater volumes. An integrated approach to urban water management can ensure cost efficiency and synergies. E.g., wastewater treatment can provide the city with energy and nature-based solutions can delay or store rainwater for later use.

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Climate partnerships

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New alliance between the Danish Ministry of Environment and the business community will strengthen biodiversity

Together with key players from the Danish business community, the Danish Ministry of Environment has formed the Biodiversity Partnership seeking to remove barriers or create incentives to help Danish companies in their voluntary efforts to protect the world's nature.

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Smart cities

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Pressure sensors enable efficient water network management

Water utilities have at least one common goal. They want to improve their network management and become efficient in their way of managing the water network. Working more efficiently means releasing resources for other important tasks in the general management of the water distribution, production,

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Climate change adaptation

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How to climate-adapt a suburban neighborhood - while improving the quality of urban spaces

Many older suburban housing areas are affected by their sewers and drainag-es aren’t built for the more frequent cloudbursts and extreme rainfalls. Fortunen, an area of townhouses, were experiencing these problems. The housing development Fortunen in Lyngby consists of 94 townhouses built in the pos

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Climate change adaptation

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Heavy rains can be a recreational contribution to cities, instead of a problem

As intense cloudbursts become more and more frequent it becomes necessary to incorporate SUDS into park designs, so the rain transforms into an asset instead of a problem. 1:1 Landskab actively works with making the rain part of the attraction at Grønttorvsparken. The water is handled locally and be

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Climate change adaptation

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Scandiagade: Using SUDS to improve everyday life – an urban space that is useable in both rain and dry weather

On Scandiagade, Copenhagen, 1:1 Landskab transformed a road island of unused grass and beautiful old trees into a local recreational park, that can handle heavy volumes of rainwater and remedy local flooding after cloudburst. The buildings along Scandiagade experienced flooded basements, overflowing

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Water supply

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The era of partnership for water action is here

During the historic UN International Water Conference on 22-24 March in New York, a new digital water value chain was launched to highlight the value of partnerships and share Danish lessons across the water industry.

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Meet Danish urban water management professionals

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Wastewater treatment

KSK Aqua ApS

KSK Aqua supply Saddle Chips for biological treatment of wastewater.

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Wastewater treatment

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WaterCare Filtration

WaterCare Filtration is a Danish engineering and manufacturing company specializing in products for the purification and management of rain and surface water. At WaterCare Filtration, complete purific

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Bio-based circular solutions

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Kalundborg Symbiosis

Kalundborg Symbiosis is a partnership between sixteen public and private companies in Kalundborg. The main principle is that a waste stream in one company becomes a resource in another, benefiting bot

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Climate change adaptation

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Just-measure ApS

Just-measure makes data about water quality easy accessible. We make measurements of primelary nitrate and nitrite with online data to our cloud platform within 3 business areas: Drinking water wells,

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Biogas

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Nanonord A/S

NanoNord A/S is a Danish, privately-owned company with unique and strong bonds to the world of science and university research. The company specializes in the development of real-time, online oil, foo

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Climate change adaptation

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Niels Lützen Landskabsarkitekter

Niels Lützen Landskabsarkitekter is a Copenhagen based landscape architecture studio, that specializes in climate change adaptation and have gained great recognition for our expertise and experience w

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District cooling

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IRON Pump A/S

IRON Pump is a Danish company, specialized in the manufacturing and development of energy efficiency pumps for the maritime and industrial sectors.

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Waste management

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Simon Moos Maskinfabrik A/S

With more than forty years of experience, Simon Moos Maskinfabrik A/S is the industry leader in know-how about sludge dewatering, sludge processing and the effective management of related tasks and lo

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Explore related focus areas

Air pollution

With urbanisation set to increase, air pollution will affect even more people in the future if no action is taken. Through strict environmental legislation and air quality monitoring, Denmark has reduced atmospheric pollution in most areas to less than one-fifth of the levels during the late 70s.

Climate change adaptation

Expanding mitigation to include adaptation in dealing with climate change, enables a holistic view that can combat previous negative social, environmental, and economic impacts and result in both climate resilient and more liveable places to live. Over the next 15-20 years, Denmark will spend more than EUR 5 billion on adapting its cities to climate changes.

District energy

Put simply, district energy is about moving energy in water, with a valuable temperature, from a place of production to the place of consumption. Denmark’s district heating system is highly energy efficient and has been one of the key drivers for reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions from the energy sector.

Green buildings

With urbanisation, demographic changes, and climate change, our cities and their buildings are facing immense challenges. Creative and innovative thinking can lead us towards a more sustainable approach to designing, creating, and using the buildings that form the basis for our everyday lives, to the benefit of both our planet and the people that populate our urban centres. Ensuring that new buildings are sustainable and energy-efficient will be key to our efforts to tackle climate change.

Smart cities

As the pace of urbanisation quickens, cities face immense challenges related to waste management, mobility, climate adaptation and energy. However, as their political, economic, and technological power grows, cities can harness this trend to act as leaders in the green transition and drivers of the green economy. Cities need smart solutions to ensure that they are optimised for sustainable economic activity, energy consumption, and an improved environmental impact.

Urban mobility

Cities must be built for people to be sustainable, healthy, and liveable. Targeted policy-making with urban mobility in mind is a strong reinforcement of these objectives. The key is to acknowledge the importance of city space and city life as an attractive, informal, and democratic meeting place for the city residents.

Urban waste management

Urban waste management entails the entire system of collecting, sorting, treating, utilising and ultimately disposing of waste. When properly facilitated it can provide a source of energy and resources, while significantly reducing pollution.

Urban water management

Cities around the world increasingly face pressure from both growing populations and climate change, challenging urban water supply in terms of available resources and in terms of treatment of increased wastewater volumes. An integrated approach to urban water management can ensure cost efficiency and synergies. E.g., wastewater treatment can provide the city with energy and nature-based solutions can delay or store rainwater for later use.