Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Filling granular activated carbon into a sand filter cell at the Furt-Bülach WWTP. (Photo: J. Fleiner)

Remove micropollutants with granular activated carbon?

January 18, 2022

Eawag researchers investigated this question in two extensive pilot studies at the Furt-Bülach and Glarus wastewater treatment plants. The findings: Granular...

Research and education - the Eawag boat Forch in 1979 with a limnology course on Lake Greifen. (Photo: Eawag archive)

January 4, 2022

The honourable Natural Research Society of Zurich has just published its 224th New Year's Bulletin. It is devoted entirely to the eight square kilometre Greifensee, which Eawag is also researching intensively.

Hidden at the bottom of Lake Maggiore, a rare cagnetta (Salaria fluviatilis). In order to better understand the diversity of the fish and their dynamics, researchers in the Projet Lac have begun to observe the fish directly in their environment. (Photo: Eawag, Ole Seehausen)

December 9, 2021

In the "Projet Lac" research project, 35 lakes in the Alpine region were systematically examined for their fish populations for the first time: In Switzerland alone, 106 fish species were detected. With almost 20 percent of all known fish species in Europe, Switzerland is one of the hotspots for fish species diversity. The results are now the basis for measures for sustainable fishing and the protection of this still preserved diversity.