Department Water Resources and Drinking Water

Water Resources & Drinking Water

Our research concentrates on physical and chemical processes in groundwater, surface water and drinking water. We conduct basic and applied research on water resources, water contaminants, and water treatment to contribute to sustainable water management from local to nationwide scales.

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Publications

Wu, R., Podgorski, J., Berg, M., & Polya, D. A. (2023). Pseudo contour maps from logistic regression modelling: case study of groundwater arsenic distribution in Gujarat state, India. In A. van der Wal, A. Ahmad, B. Petrusevski, J. Weijma, D. Savic, P. van der Wens, … R. Naidu (Eds.), Arsenic in the environment. Proceedings. Proceedings of the 8th international congress and exhibition on arsenic in the environment (As2021) (pp. 95-96). doi:10.1201/9781003317395-40, Institutional Repository
Stopelli, E., Duyen, V. T., Mai, T. T., Trang, P. T. K., Viet, P. H., Lightfoot, A., … Berg, M. (2023). Interplay of As (im)mobilisation processes in groundwater: learning from hydrochemical investigations. In A. van der Wal, A. Ahmad, B. Petrusevski, J. Weijma, D. Savic, P. van der Wens, … R. Naidu (Eds.), Arsenic in the environment. Proceedings. Proceedings of the 8th international congress and exhibition on arsenic in the environment (As2021) (pp. 21-22). doi:10.1201/9781003317395-9, Institutional Repository
Podgorski, J., & Berg, M. (2023). Second-generation global risk map of groundwater arsenic contamination. In A. van der Wal, A. Ahmad, B. Petrusevski, J. Weijma, D. Savic, P. van der Wens, … R. Naidu (Eds.), Arsenic in the environment. Proceedings. Proceedings of the 8th international congress and exhibition on arsenic in the environment (As2021) (pp. 3-4). doi:10.1201/9781003317395-1, Institutional Repository
Höge, M., Kauzlaric, M., Siber, R., Schönenberger, U., Horton, P., Schwanbeck, J., … Fenicia, F. (2023). CAMELS-CH: hydro-meteorological time series and landscape attributes for 331 catchments in hydrologic Switzerland. Earth System Science Data, 15(12), 5755-5784. doi:10.5194/essd-15-5755-2023, Institutional Repository

News

February 16, 2024

For a scientist who’s won numerous international honors for his research, Urs von Gunten, a professor at EPFL and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), is disarmingly modest. Urs von Gunten will retire in one year: Time to look back at his career.

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Research Projects

Regionale Wasserversorgung Basel-Landschaft 21

The project investigates what measures are most effective in influencing a river corridor so that river restoration and groundwater flow systems can help to mitigate the effects of floods and droughts.
This project facilitates the exchange of data, maps and information on geogenic contaminants (focussing on arsenic and fluoride) via the web-based Groundwater Assessment Platform (GAP)