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Håkan Jönsson receives the Swedish Sustainable Sanitation Award!

The prize, a travel grant and a diploma, is awarded to a person or group of persons in the Nordic countries who significantly moves forward the development of environmentally sound, recycling, wastewater systems.

- Håkan has been instrumental in the development of sustainable sanitation systems of the future, in Sweden and abroad, says Dr Ulrika Geber, director of Centre for Sustainable Agriculture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, member of the jury.

- I am especially happy and proud to receive this award during the UN International Year of Sanitation 2008, says Håkan Jönsson.

The prize will be presented during the National Conference on Wastewater and Recycling on March 4-5 in Linköping, Sweden.

View the original press release. [PDF: 77kb]

På svenska - award website in Swedish [external link]

 

 

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