Danish Water and Wastewater Association
Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Jul 2025 | Pernille Weiss-Ehler Cabinet member | Water Resilience Strategy | — |
| 02 Jul 2025 | Pernille Weiss-Ehler Cabinet member | Water Resilience Strategy | SRC |
Mission & Goals
DANVAs vision is to be the unifying force in the water sector. Through strong alliances and clear messages, DANVA speaks for water as an important resource for the green transition and the foundation of all life. DANVA IS THE CLEAR VOICE OF WATER. As a member organisation for water and waste water utilities in Denmark, our main purpose is to facilitate an enabling operational environment for our member utilities and to support and contribute to develop their key functions. DANVA works with policymakers in Denmark and in the EU.
EU Legislative Interests
Areas: Drinking water, water, waste water, chemicals, circular economy, climate mitigation and adaptation, research, taxonomy, crisis management, renewable energy, critical infrastructure Keywords: Areas: Drinking water, water, waste water, chemicals, circular economy, climate mitigation and adaptation, research, taxonomy, crisis management, renewable energy, critical infrastructure Keywords: - Crisis handling, risk management and security • Supply chain challenges, lack of chemicals, spare parts and other resources, electrical power failures and shutdowns • Lessons learnt from utility management during the Covid-19-pandemic – Climate change adaptation and resilience • Climate change mitigation • Sustainable stormwater management • Energy efficiency, Energy strategies and priorities • Greenhouse gas emissions and climate ambitions • Biogas production, upgrading and use – Sewer management • Monitoring and modelling •Treatment of combined sewer overflows • Interaction sewers and wastewater treatment plants • Wastewater treatment • Small scale wastewater treatment – Circular economy • Sludge management • Resource efficiency, recovery, recycling and recovery of nutrients • Water use and reuse • System efficiency • Micropollutants and microplastics - Control at source and phasing out hazardous chemicals with REACH regulation, the Biocides regulation, Pharmaceutical regulation, pesticides regulation, chemicals as eg PFAS – SDGs and wastewater • Management, governance, benchmarking and new EU legislation • Asset management in a re-shaped financial environment • Customer engagement and communication • Wastewater as a community service
Communication Activities
Meetings with decision makers, participation in events via The danish Representation and via EurEau, the European Water Association.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
https://www.eureau.org/ - European Water Association
Organisation Members
https://www.danva.dk/media/11178/memberlist_danva.xls
Connected Legislation