WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution

The Baltic Sea and its surrounding areas are exposed to pollution from rural and urban catchment areas. The pollution can contain harmful nutrient inflows, hazardous substances, and pathogens. Whereas point pollution sources are often easy to identify and address, diffuse pollution from e.g. urban and agricultural areas is less obvious and therefore harder to identify and mitigate. The project promotes a practical and resource-wise Watershed Safety Plan (WSSP) operational model that enables municipalities, water utilities and other relevant actors to reduce the amount of diffuse pollution from reaching the Baltic Sea. The goal is to create a generally applicable watershed-based water management model that improves water quality and residents’ well-being in the central Baltic Sea region.