In this episode, we talk with Magnus Lundin - Business Director, Potable Water Solutions at Uponor. We discussed the main challenges that we have right now in cities with drinking water and why we should invest more in the water industry.
An interview with Patryk Wójtowicz, Research Manager at Savonia University of Applied Sciences, and Water Network Modelling Expert in the field of environmental engineering, about technological innovations that could help with measuring and modelling.
With Klara Ramn – Executive Committee member of EurEau, the European Federation of National Associations of Water Services we talked about water regulation, water loss, the cost of running and renovating water networks and how money is generated from tariffs, taxes and transfers.
Ilari Aho, the Vice President of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Uponor, was caught up by Delfin Vassallo to discuss about the most important topics from the IWA High-Level Summit, whose theme this year was "Partnerships for Smart Liveable Cities – water as a key to Action on Climate and SDGs.”
What are the challenges in water management nowadays? What is the impact of ageing water networks on the residential areas? We talked with Ebba Waernbaum - Strategist within VA SYD, a regional wastewater organization working in the Southwest Skåne, and also head of waste management in Burlington and Malmö, a municipal organisation with a focus on stormwater about the hidden infrastructure and the process for planning of a new system.
Rickard Granath, Solution Manager, Stormwater, at Uponor Infra elaborates why it is important to separate oil from the stormwater.
How can we treat stormwater correctly? Why it is important to separate stormwater from oil, heavy metals and other suspended solids before it reaches a water body? Here are the best approaches of treating the polluted stormwater
This episode we focus on stormwater management with Rickard Granath and Jean Saarinen, the experts of Stormwater management at Uponor Infra. How do we properly treat, filter, and reuse rainfall water?
In this episode, we discuss with Mustafa Sherif - host of Urbanistica Prodcast "Cities for people" about several key topics regarding urban development and liveable cities in the Nordic context.
In this episode we talk with Päivi Raivio, Helsinki-based designer who has dedicated her career to creating better public spaces through urban interventions and placemaking.
Natalia Rincón – Co-Founder and CEO at CHAOS, an AI startup focused on location intelligence forecasts to improve the liveability of cities, explained us what is sustainable urban development and data-driven urban planning.
Lars Nørgård Holmegaard – CEO of the water utility of Lemvig, Denmark shared with us the challenges they are facing in north Denmark with rising sea levels. What sustainable solutions they are considering and how he sees the future of water management in cities.
Martin Lundholm, a Project Engineer at Skanska, has focused on sustainability and innovation within infrastructure projects. He has worked with the Skellefteå Municipality in northern Sweden which has the clear and ambitious goal of becoming the most sustainable city in Europe. Martin tells us how to actually implement (build) a project with a strong sustainability focus.
This episode features Ella Tanskanen, Head of Sustainability Services at Greenstep, discussing the new EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and its impact on companies.
We took the opportunity to ask Michael Hanf, Lead, Sustainable Business at VTT and host of The Circular Coffee Break podcast, about the definition of the Circular Economy and its principles, challenges it brings, how consumers can engage in it, its role in urban planning, and the power of society.
What kind of data is behind Life Cycle Assesments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)? We talked with a sustainability expert Panu Pasanen, CEO of One Click LCA to find the truth behind the data.
Riina Känkänen, Head of Sustainability at Ramboll Finland shared with us the 9 criteria for sustainable infrastructure covering the ecological, social and economic sustainability of infrastructure.
We reached out to Judith Masip Calle, Technical Support Specialist & Sustainability Responsible at Uponor for some answers and more on the subject of EPDs. What exactly are EPDs, and what do their use mean?
Tallulah Lutkin from the Utility Performance Editor at Global Water Intelligence discussed with us about the main challenges of transition from gray to green infrastructure, new carbon neutrality requirements and regulations.
How Lahti became Environmental Green Capital of Europe? An insightful discussion with Jenni Rahkonen, Environmental Coordinator at The city of Lahti, shared us the formula of Lahti's success.
During this conversation with Franz Cuculiza, Business Director of Denmark’s first plastic recycling company we discussed recycling plastic materials and the circular economy.
During this conversation with Gregory Norris from MIT and Harvard University, we discussed the collaborative Life Cycle Assessment concept and several approaches of measuring the environmental impact of products and services.
A conversation with Nicklas Kaskeala, Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Compensate about carbon offsetting, how it works and how it is regulated.
In the second episode of the GWI news series, we discuss some conclusions from COP 28 in Dubai, developments in Direct Potable Reuse, the EU’s new corporate sustainability reporting directive, Germany’s sludge management and the Swedish case which asks, ‘Who is responsible for PFAS?’
First episode of the new series in the Urbanista podcast, Global Water Intelligence, GWI, News. In this episode we talk with Tallulah Lutkin, the editor at GWi about the recent news and events in water industry.
