• The Thematic Network on Arctic WASH published a paper offering an inventory titled “The Status of Domestic Wastewater Treatment in the Arctic”, which highlights many similarities across the region. Read the news here. You can read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5VA00082C

• The Arctic WASH Summer Course in June 2023 became a starting point for interdisciplinary collaboration between two students completing their Master's degrees, and falling in love with the Arctic. Chloe (from the US) and Agata (from Poland) met in Sisimiut, getting introduced to the unique challenges of rural communities of Greenland. A field visit in Itilleq, focusing on sanitation, sparked the idea to dedicate their final projects to the household water storage in the Greenlandic settlement housing. The collaboration deepened as Agata and Chloe integrated their perspectives to focus on both building design and water quality. While still working on two different projects, they joined efforts, and in September 2024 they returned to Itilleq for a week-long fieldwork. Their research findings were published in their theses and presented during conferences in Denmark and Finland to audiences of water and Arctic professionals, respectively, to increase awareness of pressing challenges in the Greenlandic settlements. The summer course went beyond broadening academic horizons - it fostered a meaningful international and interdisciplinary partnership.
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• The overall purpose of the Flushwatch project is to contribute to increased citizen awareness in Svalbard, as well as in Greenland and Iceland. The intention is that knowledge of the problems will lead to increased protection against litter and wastewater in the Arctic seas. Findings through the Climarest project revealed that people often flush cotton buds, contact lenses, condoms, sanitary pads/tampons and wet wipes down the drain. All these products form a carpet on the seabed which interferes with the sedimentary deposits and the animals that depend on them.
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• Partners of the three year Interreg NPA funded project ArcticSewlutions got the chance to meet and discuss wastewater solutions with Greenlandic municipalities in Sisimiut, Greenland in the beginning of April 2025. Read the report by Pernille Erland Jensen here.

• Workshop on wastewater management in the Arctic

• CLIMAREST is an EU-funded research project consisting of 18 partners from along the length of the European coastline. The project belongs to the EU Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters, and is a member of the Lighthouse for the Arctic and Atlantic Basin.

• Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: solutions for the Arctic in view of a changing climate and emerging contaminants. Read more here.

• The Thematic Network of Arctic WASH is hosting a Winter-School on Arctic Water, Sanitation and Health in Kuujjuarapik, Nunavik, QC, Canada from March 30th to April 3rd, 2026. Appplication is open for graduate students until 12th of December 2025. Read more here.

Outreach events in Nuuk and Sisimiut Greenland about preventing plastic in the ocean. Read more here.