About us

In the OST@Eawag group we are are sharing our experience in different fields of research to enhance OST technology development and implementation:

Technology development

• Drinking water: membrane technology, oxidation and disinfection processes, Photochemical transformation processes
• Wastewater treatment: development, design, modeling and optimization of novel and existing processes

Infrastructure Concepts and Management

• Design of new concepts for urban water management
• Water infrastructure management and development
• Evaluation of data and fluxes in urban catchment areas
• Business Concepts
  

Implementation of Urban Water Management Systems

• Develop, provide and facilitate implementation of new concepts and technologies
  
• Increase research capacity and professional expertise in low and middle-income countries 
• Changing the behavior of persons and households
• Management of shared use of resources
• Realization of collective action
• Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder participation

Innovation Management

• Innovation system analysis and transition management
• Governance of infrastructures
• Organizational issues of utility services
• Diffusion of innovations