Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

Our mandate is to develop and test methods and technologies that help the worlds’ poorest access sustainable water, solid waste and sanitation services.

Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis

Governance Arrangements for the Scaling Up of Small-Scale Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Systems – Lessons From India

Compendium of Sanitation Technologies in Emergencies, English

Eawag-Sandec's Research & Capacity Development Projects and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SOWATT – Selecting Organic Waste Treatment Technologies

Faecal Sludge Management: Highlights and Exercises

Black Soldier Fly Biowaste Processing - A Step by Step Guide, Chinese

Black Soldier Fly Biowaste Processing - A Step by Step Guide, English

Pyrolysis of Biowaste in Low and Middle Income Settings. A Step-by-Step Manual

Romanian[9.68MB]
Arabic[10.34MB]
Russian[8.56MB]
2nd edition French[5.66MB]
2nd edition Spanish[9.54MB]

Sandec News No 21[4.57MB] [pdf]

Learn about sanitation, water, faecal sludge and solid waste management for free, wherever and whenever you want! More info: MOOC webpage.

A Sanitation Journey. Principles, Approaches & Tools for Urban Sanitation.Eawag / GIZ[3.44MB] [pdf]

March 22, 2021

The motto of today’s World Water Day is “Valuing water – What means water to you?”. With this motto, the United Nations wants to raise awareness of the vital importance of water and call on people to think about the value of water. In an interview, Eawag Director Janet Hering explains the importance of water for the aquatic research institute Eawag and also her personally.