We talked with Rcikard Granath - Solution Manager, Stormwater, Uponor Infra and discussed an important topic for stormwater management - Oil Separation. Why do we need to separate and where this oil may come from?

In this episode we talk with Magnus Lundin - Business Director, Potable Water Solutions at Uponor.  We discussed the main challenges that we have right now in cities with drinking water and why we should invest more in the water industry. 

We are starting this season of podcast with a new episode that summarizes all the important and hot topics we discussed during Season 1. The main topics for discussion were city water management, water prices (Is the water too cheap in the Nordics?), how to prevent urban flooding, stormwater management, sustainability, data-driven urban design, and numerous others. If you missed Season 1, this is a perfect opportunity to briefly catch up on all the topics!

Uponor has been awarded the Gold level rating by the global sustainability rating platform EcoVadis. The total score improved to 70 out of 100 (62 /100 in 2022: Silver level rating) putting Uponor among the top 6% of the 5000 companies in the plastic products manufacturing sector evaluated by EcoVadis globally.

All human activities create pollution for stormwater coming to the drains. Usually, it is polluted with building materials, traffic, industrial and commercial activities. How can we treat stormwater correctly? There are several methods of stormwater treatment. Rickard tells us about the best approaches of treating the polluted stormwater and how important it is to separate it from oil, heavy metals and other suspended solids before it reaches a water body.

As an industrial city and a port on an inlet of the Baltic Sea, Norrköping in southeastern Sweden strives to prevent pollutants from ending up in waterways. In an ongoing  pilot project, pollutants carried by stormwater run-offs will be captured in a massive, tailor-made Uponor Vault, a stormwater treatment chamber to ensure that the stormwater is purified before it reaches the Ljura Stream and finally the sea.