The Baltic Rim Economies 4/2025 issue focuses on sustainable water management.
”World water resources are under high pressure and pressures are increasing. The impacts of climate change are increasingly visible in our water systems and has effect in our everyday life. Extreme weather phenomena – floods, periods of drought and rising sea levels – challenge our infrastructure, ecosystem and the functioning of our society.”
Sari Multala
Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Finland
”Water is rapidly becoming a focus for policymakers across Europe and beyond. The triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution are having significant and cumulative effects on the quality and quantity of available water across our continent.”
Leena Ylä-Mononen
Executive Director
European Environment Agency
Denmark
”We are faced with increasing water scarcity conditions and we anticipate a further intensification of the gap between water supply and demand in the coming years, resulting from a combination of climatic and anthropogenic factors.”
Elena Toth
Professor
Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering
University of Bologna
Italy
”Across Europe, citizens rightly expect clean water, healthy rivers, and affordable water services. Yet, every day, micropollutants flow from our homes into wastewater systems. These substances are biologically active, persistent, and costly to remove.”
Gari Villa-Landa Sokolova
Senior Policy Advisor
EurEau (European Federation of Water Services)
Belgium
”World water resources are under high pressure and pressures are increasing. The impacts of climate change are increasingly visible in our water systems and has effect in our everyday life. Extreme weather phenomena – floods, periods of drought and rising sea levels – challenge our infrastructure, ecosystem and the functioning of our society.”
Sari Multala
Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Finland
”Water is rapidly becoming a focus for policymakers across Europe and beyond. The triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution are having significant and cumulative effects on the quality and quantity of available water across our continent.”
Leena Ylä-Mononen
Executive Director
European Environment Agency
Denmark
”We are faced with increasing water scarcity conditions and we anticipate a further intensification of the gap between water supply and demand in the coming years, resulting from a combination of climatic and anthropogenic factors.”
Elena Toth
Professor
Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering
University of Bologna
Italy
”Across Europe, citizens rightly expect clean water, healthy rivers, and affordable water services. Yet, every day, micropollutants flow from our homes into wastewater systems. These substances are biologically active, persistent, and costly to remove.”
Gari Villa-Landa Sokolova
Senior Policy Advisor
EurEau (European Federation of Water Services)
Belgium
