AquaClim: Building a Better Climate with Water Research

Safe drinking water and sanitation are essential for society.

The challenge is to design the infrastructures and constructs delivering these services to reduce climate impact and ensure resilience in a changing climate.

AquaClim unites 6 Universities, 4 Swedish Water Research Clusters, 290 municipalities represented by Swedish Water, and more than 75 doctoral students in interdisciplinary education and communication to address this challenge and transform the future of water and sanitation together.Doctoral projects in AquaClim were designed by established academia-industry collaborations to increase sustainability and resilience to climate change in water services They address 5 themes in the Agenda for Transformative and Sustainable Spatial Planning and overlap across the industrial water cycle from drinking water source to the return of this water to nature.

As interdisciplinarity requires time for communication and understanding, resources are secured for supervisors in architecture, economics, microbiology, mathematics and engineering, and from practice at municipal water utilities across Sweden.AquaClim is an evolution of the Water Research School funded by Swedish Water.

Inheriting the leadership team, enrolled doctoral students and existing courses allows AquaClim to focus on long-term impact through interdisciplinary courses with new perspectives, creative communication with a broad stakeholder base, and excellence that crosses disciplinary and sectorial borders.