I samband med att Håkan Jönsson, professor vid Forskargruppen för kretsloppsteknik mottog 2018 års vattenpris från Föreningen Vatten höll han en presentation om sin forskning och sin vision om framtidens kretsloppsanpassade avloppssystem när dess näring återförs som bra gödsel för odling av mat istället för att övergöda vatten. Bilderna tillsammans med förklaringar finns här Bilderna från presentationen finns här
Föreningen Vattens ordförande Marta Juhlén delar ut 2018 års Vattenpris till Håkan Jönsson. Foto: Ingrid Mossberg
Author: Prithvi Simha
The 2018 Water Prize ceremony in Stockholm
Professor Håkan Jonsson received the 2018 Water Prize from Föreningen Vatten yesterday (14.03.2018) for his work on nutrient recycling. Many congratulations to him from all of us at the kretsloppsteknik research group at SLU!
Marta Ahlquist-Juhlén from Föreningen vatten delivering the Vatten-priset to Professor Håkan Jönsson; PC – Magnus Berglund
Framtidens avloppssystem workshop Monte Verita, 14-17 mars
Björn Vinnerås deltog i detta möte på ETHs kursgård Monte Verita i Ascona i södra delen av Schweiz. Platsen var en av de mer bildsköna mötesplatser man kan tänka sig med palmer i förgrunden och snöklädda berg i bakgrunden. 
Utsikten från konferenscentret Monte Verita. PC: Björn Vinnerås
Non-grid solutions for the future of urban water management workshop Monte Verita, 14-17 March
Björn Vinnerås participated in this meeting at ETH, Monte Verita venue in Ascona, Southern Switzerland. The venue was quite picturesque, with palm trees in the foreground and snowy mountains in the background.The view from the workshop venue, Monte Verita. PC: Björn Vinnerås
New study on occurrence and concentrations of PFASs in Uganda
In a very recent study published in Science of the Total Environment, Sahar Dalahmeh, a researcher at the Environmental Engineering Unit and her co-workers investigated concentrations and partitioning of 26 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in wastewater, surface water, soil and crop plants (yam, maize and sugarcane) in Nakivubo wetland and Lake Victoria at Kampala, Uganda.
Location of the study area at Kampala, Uganda, and the sampling sites
Water Research School annual meeting in Luleå
This year’s annual meeting of the Water Research School, of which many members of the kretsloppsteknik research group are part of, was hosted by Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU) between 7-8 February. Solveig Johannesdottir, Jennifer McConville and Prithvi Simha from our group made it to Luleå for the 2-day event. On the first day, they got to hear about LTU’s current research on urban drainage & stormwater management, VR platforms for visualisation, and the effects of shifting the city centre in Kiruna & Gällivare on urban water and sanitation. Day 2 started with two interesting lectures – the first where Prof. Lennart Elfgren shared his views on ‘how to do a PhD and feel good about it’; the second where Prof. Javier Martin-Torres talked about discovering transcient water on Mars. 
Water Research School group picture at Gråsjälören. PC: Salar H. Afshar
Building blocks of modular BSF treatment are put together in a course
Our one-day-course in modular fly larva treatment is in high demand. After the first course opportunity in December 2017, the course was organized again on 14 March 2018, with eight participants from different Swedish companies and universities.
In the morning Cecilia Lalander and Evgheni Ermolaev gave an in-depth introduction to the concept of a modular system developed at SLU and presented the possibilities on waste management with the black soldier fly larvae. Details on both the fly rearing and waste treatment modules were presented.
Research-Policy Interaction for Sustainable Development
Prithvi Simha, PhD student at the Kretsloppsteknik group attended a course on research-policy interaction at the Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development (GMV). The course was given as part of the ‘Water Research School‘ for PhD students in Sweden, of which several candidates from our group are part of. The course involved creating a research-to-policy plan related to Prithvi’s PhD research on urine dehydration, understanding models for stakoholder interaction and learning to effectively communicate with policymakers. Course participants also got to hear from Johan Kuylenstierna, former CEO of Stockholm Environmental Institute, on his personal experiences of science-policy interaction. 
Course participants from the Water Research School; PC – Linda Kanders
Molecular Methods course in Finland
Jenna Senecal attended a course on Molecular Methods for Detection of Food- and Waterborne Pathogens in Helsinki, Finland (04.03.2018-08.03.2018). The course was taught and attended by top researchers from the Nordic countries. She learned about the latest available technologies for DNA extraction and analyses being used for detecting pathogenic strains of viruses, bacteria and parasites.
Group Photo with PCR
Sanitation Round Table meeting in Nairobi, Kenya
SLU and IAS (International Aid services) jointly hosted a round table meeting on the 25th of January in Nairobi, Kenya. Different stakeholders such as local politicians, NGOs and researchers took part in the meeting, to discuss how to jointly solve the sanitation situation in Africa’s largest urban slum, Nairobi’s Kibera.
Participants of the round table meeting. PC: Sheila Gatumu