ITT Flygt Press Releases, June 1999

The Swedish Junior Water Prize 1999 "Biological Wastewater Treatment - the reduction of nitrogen in wastewater" - a Baltic Sea project

ITT Flygt, the main sponsor, and SIWI, the organiser, are happy to announce that this year's Swedish Junior Water Prize has been awarded. The winner is Eva Håkansson, from Nynashamn High School, on the outskirts of Stockholm. Eva's project, "Biological Wastewater Treatment", examines how different processes of nitrogen reduction work, and the costs involved. The basis of the paper is that eutrophication of the Baltic Sea has resulted in bigger wastewater treatment plants including the integration of biological nitrogen removal. The different methods examined by effectiveness, cost and environmental impact to achieve this were; wetlands, fluidised beds and conventional biological processes.

The nomination committee's reasoning behind the award was that "Eva has written a technical paper on different methods of the removal of nitrogen from wastewater. Extensive data has been gathered from Swedish sewage treatment plants and evaluated methodically considering the grade of reduction, the cost and the environmental impacts."

The nomination committee consists of representatives from The Board of Education, The Young Researchers Society, high schools, universities and industry.

Entry to the prize is open to all students in Sweden under the age of 20 that have completed a project on water and the environment. The winner of the prize receives 30,000 SEK, which is divided between the winner and their school, to be used for further funding of environmental water projects. The winner then goes on to represent Sweden in the international final, The Stockholm Junior Water Prize on August 10th. Along with Eva, in the running for the international prize will be students from 15 countries, representing five continents, who have also won their countries' respective prizes.

The patron of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize is HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.

The main sponsor of the Swedish, Dutch and French Junior Water Prizes is ITT Flygt, the world leader in submersible pumps and mixers who sponsor the prize to continue their support and active work in cleaning up the world's water supply and to encourage youth interest in water and the environment. ITT Flygt is also proud to be one of the founders of the Stockholm Water Prize, the international award presented to an individual or organisation for substantially contributing to the protection of the world's water resources.

ITT Flygt AB is the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of submersible pumps, mixers and fluid handling technology. ITT Flygt's main manufacturing plant in Sweden is certified according to ISO 9001 and registered according to the EU directive, EMAS. Furthermore, all ITT Flygt´s operations in Sweden are certified according to ISO 14001.
ITT Flygt is proud to be one of the founders of the Stockholm Water Prize, an international award, presented to an individual or an organisation that has substantially contributed to the preservation and enhancement of the world´s water resources. ITT Flygt is also the sponsor of the Swedish, Dutch and French Junior Water Prizes.

The company is represented in over 130 countries and had a 1998 turnover of around SEK 4.7 billion. ITT Flygt has approx. 4000 employees and is part of ITT Industries in the USA.

ITT Industries´ fluid technology business is the world's leading provider of pumps, and systems and services to move, measure, and control liquids. The company provides a variety of sophisticated pumps, valves and systems used worldwide in residential, agricultural, commercial, municipal, industrial and process applications. This includes large pumps that control urban storm water drainage, and submersible pumps that are used in water and wastewater treatment plants, in the drainage of construction sites, tunnels and mines.

ITT Industries is the global sponsor of the international Stockholm Junior Water Prize. ITT Industries is listed on the New York, Midwest, Pacific, London, Frankfurt and Paris Stock Exchanges.

For further information, please contact:
Gilla Grip, Press Officer, ITT Flygt AB
Telephone: (+46) 8 627 67 43 Telefax: (+46) 8 627 69 00
e-mail: gilla.grip@flygt.com

Stefan Swartling: Market Mgr Industry, Waste & Process Water Pumps
Telephone:. +46 8 627 68 37 Telefax: +46 8 627 69 00
e-mail: stefan.swartling@flygt.com