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The signing of a new collaboration agreement solidifies a shared commitment to addressing the world's most pressing water challenges.

First of November a new CEO - Karina Topp took office at Aarhus Vand. Sustainability, continued growth and ensuring that Aarhus Vand is an attractive place to work are key ambitions in 2024.

Digital water meters will make it easier and better to be a customer at Aarhus Vand in the future. A collaboration between Kamstrup, Systematic and Aarhus Vand will bring the digitalization of the new water meters to new heights.

Both in Chicago and Aarhus there is a desire to minimize the climate impact from wastewater plants. Therefore, on 3 October a collaboration was established enabling knowledge of new technology and solutions to flow smoothly between Denmark and one of the world's largest wastewater treatment plants in the US.

Wastewater treatment plants in Denmark, Australia and the UK joined forces for one year to monitor emissions of nitrous oxide. This greenhouse gas may be subject to stricter regulation in future and is thus worth learning more about.

Managing the sewage system in the city of Tema in Ghana previously relied on a plan on physical paper. Through the cooperation with Aarhus Vand a digitalized plan in the shape of an app has been developed enabling quick updates on data.

Through cooperation with Aarhus Vand, operators from Ghana Water are now able to educate eachother in leak detection and are able to find leaks with basic and advanced equipment.

Aarhus Vand opened its doors 1st of June to Green Impact Week with the aim to gather a diverse crowd of researchers, investors and water professionals discussing water challenges of the future.

We are honoured to have received the Innovative Lighthouse Award for an innovative procurement process for the Aarhus ReWater project as the only water utility.

Aarhus Vand has been recognized as a Climate Smart Utility by the International Water Association’s Climate Smart Utilities Initiative.

Investo Capital and Aarhus Vand has recently entered into a strategic cooperation in order to ensure growth within competitive companies, originating from a knowledge intensive and professionalized innovative environment around Aarhus Vand.

Aarhus Vand (Denmark), Melbourne Water (Australia), and Severn Trent (UK) form a partnership to advance the future of environmentally friendly wastewater treatment. Partners will collaborate on developing technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of wastewater treatment sites to net-zero, sharing existing expertise, and establishing new international standards for measuring and reporting emissions.

Aarhus Vand has just signed a cooperation agreement with the Portuguese water company Águas do Tejo Atlântico. The collaboration must support the development and dissemination of sustainable solutions in the water area through knowledge sharing, training and exchange of employees.

The intention with Aarhus ReWater is to make the world's most resource efficient wastewater treatment plant.

Listen to Claus Homann, Aarhus Vand, discuss how the utility has shifted to activity based working, an approach that provides different physical work spaces that align with types of work, and how he envisions workplaces will change post-pandemic.

Aarhus Vand is taking sustainability to the next step and becomes the first water company in the world to be certified according to the UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

Aarhus Vand have been working strategically to develop energy neutral utilities for decades. It all started with a challenge to save energy and become more efficient, and now, after years of continuous work, we're able to announce, that already now the GHG emissions are 77% lower than in 2008.

Aarhus Vand had planned to increase the capacity of Viby wastewater treatment plant in order to ensure stable and efficient treatment performance.

The architectural firm Henning Larsen has been selected by Aarhus Vand to design Aarhus Rewater, a cutting-edge wastewater treatment plant and urban landmark. Henning Larsen, along with team members Klinges Tegnestue, Topotek 1, and artist Eva Koch, will lead the project.

Our biggest wastewater treatment plant in Marselisborg produced 30 % more electricity than the amount consumed by the plant itself on average between 2015-2019. At the same time the treatment plant produced 75 % more heat than it consumed, resulting in a total net energy production of 150 %.