Here is the wetland that will eventually cleanse the Baltic Sea

The new landscaped wetland is almost 20,000 square meters in size and the water that passes comes from the Nistan Canal, where a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus and humus are transported from the arable land nearby.

According to the County Administrative Board, about a quarter of the country's original wetlands have disappeared in the last century.

The cost of the Väckelsång project lands at almost SEK 1,500,000, and part of the funding comes from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.

Several tons of nutrients

- This wetland can collect quite a few tons of nutrients per hectare and a lot of nutrients get stuck here before they run out into the Nistan Canal, says Anton Lidh, administrator at the County Administrative Board in Kronoberg County.

In the long run, the water reaches the Baltic Sea, and the more nutrients that have been taken care of before the water reaches the sea, the eutrophication also decreases.

But Anton Lidh believes that more efforts must be made to save the sea.

- Yes, we needed more wetlands to be able to purify the water, says Anton Lidh.