Pharmaceutical emissions from Scanian wastewater treatment plants in 2017 A development and collaborative project at Kristianstad University - in cooperation with Skåne and six Scanian treatment plant operators Ola Svahn & Erland Björklund The Research Group in Analytical Chemistry MoLab Kristianstad University Project Number Region Skåne: M219 Project Owner: Kristianstad University KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY SWEDEN Cover photo Treated wastewater from Sankt Olof Treatment Plant in Österlen, Scania and its discharge pipe in Rörums Södra Å River. Photograph: E. Björklund. Authors Ola Svahn Erland Björklund Contact information
[email protected] [email protected] Translation to English from Swedish Costs related to translation and adaptation of the original report in Swedish to English was financed by European Regional Development Fund, Interreg South Baltic. Project MORPHEUS 2017-2019 www.morpheus-project.eu Summary In April 2017 (following a Government assignment from 2016), the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency issued a report concerning advanced wastewater treatment for the separation of drug remnants and other undesired substances where they write that: “The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency proposes that the Government have studies done of continued steps in a direction towards an introduction of advanced treatment beginning where the need is the greatest: Step 1: Investigate which wastewater treatment plants have the greatest need to introduce advanced treatment of drug remnants Step 2: Investigate what governance can lead to advanced treatment being introduced where the need is the greatest in a socioeconomically effective and suitable manner. The implemented LUSKA project shows how strategic collaboration between academia, municipalities and authorities is able to effectively map where measures primarily need to be applied to achieve a toxin-free environment in Sweden with living seas and water.