Stockholm Vatten och Avfall

About Stockholm Vatten och Avfall

Stockholm Vatten och Avfall is Sweden’s largest water and waste company and part of the City of Stockholm. Its mission is to keep everyday life in Stockholm working by delivering essential water, wastewater, and waste services for residents, businesses, and property owners.

The company serves a very large urban region every day of the year: it supplies clean tap water, treats wastewater, and collects household and packaging waste. It also manages recycling centres, recycling stations, hazardous waste drop-off points, and other collection services, while continuously upgrading infrastructure to meet growth, climate change, and stricter environmental requirements.

With more than 160 years of history, Stockholm Vatten och Avfall positions itself as a long-term societal builder focused on effective, sustainable, and environmentally responsible services for current and future Stockholmers.

Core Values

• Sustainability: The company consistently frames its work around circular flows, reduced waste, cleaner water, and lower environmental impact.
• Long-term responsibility: It emphasizes stewardship for both today’s Stockholmers and future generations through infrastructure renewal and resource protection.
• Collaboration: Stockholm Vatten och Avfall stresses that solving urban water and waste challenges requires cooperation with residents, businesses, and other actors.
• Innovation: The company highlights new technical solutions, modernized infrastructure, and smarter planning to meet future demand and environmental standards.
• Service and reliability: A core promise is to keep essential services running every day, year-round, with high availability and quality.

Unique Aspects

• Largest in Sweden: Stockholm Vatten och Avfall describes itself as Sweden’s largest water and waste company, giving it a uniquely broad municipal role.
• Part of Stockholm City: As an entity within the City of Stockholm, it combines utility operations with a public-service mandate and city-building responsibility.
• Full urban water cycle responsibility: It manages the chain from drinking water production to wastewater treatment, plus stormwater planning and waste handling, under one organization.
• Large-scale infrastructure footprint: The company operates a 520-kilometre water and wastewater network, serves 1.6 million people with drinking water, and treats wastewater for 1.2 million people.
• Major modernization programs: It is carrying out long-term investments to renew drinking-water infrastructure and transform wastewater treatment, including new tunnels, treatment capacity, and upgraded waterworks and reservoirs.