It may not be something commonly associated with a northern European nation, but Sweden is currently fretting over water shortages in several parts of the country, and there are already visible consequences. Here's everything you need to know about the situation.
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Stockholm is a city consisting of 14 islands and more than 50 bridges. The city is literally surrounded by, and filled with, water. And it's also home to what may be the cleanest water in the world.
Sweden regularly comes out top in surveys on the cleanest countries in the world. But in Stockholm enough waste water to fill 354 Olympic-sized 50-metre swimming pools was released into the sea around the capital last year.
Some 40,000 residents of Sundsvall in northern Sweden may have been exposed to contaminated water following the discovery of coliform bacteria in the city's mains water supply.
Sweden is joining the United States to fund a new $25 million programme to boost access to clean water for farming, officials announced on Monday at the start of World Water Week in Stockholm.
Sweden could see the costs of tap water rise in the future, said Rural Affairs Minister Eskil Erlandsson, as the government investigates how to secure a plentiful flow under the threat of climate change.
Residents in western Sweden were warned not to drink the water or take showers on Monday night after an oversupply of caustic lye left municipal water supplies in Halmstad contaminated with pH values as high as 11.
Patients in a psychiatric clinic in Lund have been without running water for two days after a nearby fire cut off their supply, leaving many mentally ill patients unable to shower or flush the toilet.
The mother of 6-year-old girl who was trapped under the ice in a creek in southern Sweden made a dramatic rescue of her daughter on Sunday, but not before the girl sustained serious injuries.
A Swedish sailor in his seventies began a long-planned solo journey to the United States on Monday by hitching his boat to a trailer and driving through Germany.
The impact of climate change and urbanisation on water quality and pollution is set to occupy thousands of experts gathering in Stockholm on Sunday for World Water Week.
The World Water Week opened in Stockholm on Monday welcoming an international cast of politicians, industry leaders and United Nations officials aiming to improve access to water and halt a tide of deaths in poor nations.
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Bindeshwar Pathak, a sanitation expert from India, won the Stockholm Water Prize on Wednesday for his work developing inexpensive and environmentally friendly toilets.
Forecasters predict several more days of warm summer weather in Sweden, but warn that high temperatures may also cause widespread blooming of poisonous blue-green algae in coastal waters.
British professor Anthony John Allan was on Wednesday awarded the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize handed out each year in the field of water research, the Stockholm International Water Institute said.
