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Waterchain Handbook

Recovering the Baltic Sea

by reducing harmful inflows of nutrients and hazardous substances

Problems in the Baltic Sea

Harmful inflow of nutrients and hazardous substances is a challenge the Baltic Sea has faced for many years and still struggles to tackle.

What can I do?

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. Every small act counts. Reduce, reuse and recycle!

Best Practices

How to build a phosphorus filter? How to reduce nitrogen inflow to the water cycle? How to remove hazardous substances from the water?

The Baltic Sea Quiz

Challenge yourself and your friends in our quiz about the Baltic Sea.

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Short introduction of the WaterChain project

WaterChain reduces the inflows of nutrients and hazardous substances ending up in the Baltic Sea.

The project has two main approaches:

  1. Raising awareness of the effects of everyday actions on the Baltic Sea and introducing various means to reduce the chemical and nutrient load.
  2. Reducing the inflow of nutrients and hazardous substances by utilizing environmental technology.

When?

10/2015 – 9/2018

Who?

Why?

To reduce the inflows of nutrients and hazardous substances to the Baltic Sea

How?

Using pilot watersheds and environmental technology

Stakeholders

Ministries, local authorities, municipalities, industry, education, local people