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A high groundwater level is a major challenge for Danish landowners and utilities. A new project will create a data basis so utilities will have better conditions to combat this new challenge.

Aarhus Vand has joined the Horizon Europe project, WATERUN, to improve the knowledge on stormwater quality in Aarhus and the cleansing effect of green infrastructures. With more than 10 years of experience in establishing and operating blue/green infrastructure, we look forward to becoming wiser on the cleansing effect of open storm water solutions.

Aarhus Vand supplies drinking water of the best quality merely by filtering and aerating the water on its way to the citizens’ taps. However, we can only do this because we think ahead and always take the groundwater into consideration.

At Aarhus Vand we are very engaged in business creation and how to improve areas within the field of water supply. Therefore, we created the company DRYP together with MONTEM.

We get our tap water from our ground water resources and, therefore, it is essential that we take care of these resources before they run out. At Aarhus Vand, we are doing everything we can to ensure that our resources will last for many decades to come.

We have reopened the cased Aarhus River so that people are once again able to enjoy the open water areas in the centre of Aarhus. The opening of the river is also an important part of Aarhus Vand’s project about flood prevention and preventing wastewater from overflowing into lakes, streams and bay.

Up to 10,000 households’ washing machines and toilets in the suburb Nye – near the city of Aarhus - use rainwater instead of drinking water. This reduces water consumption by 40 percent.