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Co-ordinated action needed now to avoid sky-rocketing water & wastewater costs

It is nothing new that the pipeline network has a huge backlog in Norway. There will soon be a doubling and tripling of water and sewage charges to clear the backlog. Norsk Vann estimates that the annual municipal rates for water and sewage for Oslo households will double to almost NOK 10,000 in 2040. According to the same long-term plan, residents of Innlandet, Nordland, and Romsdal would pay the most expensive water and sewerage tax in 2040, between NOK 20,000 and 30,000.

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Picture of a wastewater site. Retrieved from Vannfakta.

A national action plan for sewage could save billions of kroner for citizens

This article is written in Norwegian by Helge Eide, Director for Society, Welfare and Democracy in KS, and Thomas Breen, Director of Norsk Vann. This is first published in Kommunal Rapport 19.12.2022

According to KS (Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities) and Norsk Vann (Norwegian Water), a nationwide sewage action plan allows municipalities to make wise environmental investments while ensuring economic and social sustainability.

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InfoTiles enters Swiss market

Stavanger, December 1st 2022 - InfoTiles have won the BlueArk Challenge to provide a municipality in Switzerland with continual wastewater network monitoring to tackle inflow & infiltration (I&I).

Announced today at the Smart Water conference in Le Châble, Switzerland, the collaboration will be supported by BlueArk Entremont, ALTIS, and The Ark Foundation to facilitate further development and implementation of the InfoTiles solution.

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InfoTiles in Denmark, International Water Association, World Water Congress

InfoTiles in Copenhagen at World Water Congress 2022

It is almost impossible not to know that InfoTiles and its closest partners were at the International Water Association World Water Congress last week (to clarify, yes, we were there). It was made even more possible with our hosts Innovasjon Norge, Norsk Vann, and Royal Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen for the opportunity for hosting InfoTiles at the Norway Pavillion.

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InfoTiles named top 25 most innovative start-ups in Nordic Cleantech Open

Stavanger, August 25th 2022 - InfoTiles is pleased to be named as one of the top 25 cleantech innovators for water and wastewater at Nordic Cleantech Open.  

The eleventh edition of the competition, organised by Cleantech Scandinavia, selected the best companies from 137 candidates across the Nordic and Baltic countries. The top 25 were selected by an international jury that includes a panel of 50 Cleantech Scandinavia members from venture capital firms, multinational industries, the utility sector, development agencies, and public investment. 

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