Bo Jacobsen

Aarhus Vand

Aarhus Vand is a Danish public limited company owned by Aarhus Municipality. Our mission is to offer and develop resource-efficient services throughout the entire water cycle, creating a climate-adapted, sound environment, growth and export, all of which will be of benefit to customers and stakeholders. We produces more than 15 million cubic metres per year of great tasting drinking water. We have 19 well fields, approx. 100 abstraction wells, 9 waterworks, 10 elevation tanks plus a 1,500-kilometre transmission system. To measure it, we have installed 80,000 meters. We treat more than 30 million cubic metres of wastewater per year, thus contributing to public health and a steadily improving aquatic environment. Our responsibilities include the collection of wastewater through a 2,250 km collection system that we operate and maintain. The wastewater runs through 130 pumping stations into 4 medium-sized treatment plants. The transmission system has 10 wastewater basins plus 225 separate rainwater basins. Approx. 35,6 billion litres are treated annually.