Department Urban Water Management

Urban Water Management
Research in this department aims at the urban water system as an entity and at developing the corresponding ecological, economical and social services into a sustainable future. In addition to traditional questions concerning urban hygiene and water pollution control, the sustainable use and management of the resources is a primary concern. Read more
Urban Water Observatory

The Urban Water Observatory (UWO) is a long-term initiative of ETH and Eawag to establish a sensor network in Fehraltorf, allowing spatially-distributed monitoring of urban water cycle processes. Read more
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Back, Y.; Bach, P. M.; Jasper-Tönnies, A.; Rauch, W.; Kleidorfer, M. (2021) A rapid fine-scale approach to modelling urban bioclimatic conditions, Science of the Total Environment, 756, 143732 (17 pp.), doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143732, Institutional Repository
Browne, S.; Lintern, A.; Jamali, B.; Leitão, J. P.; Bach, P. M. (2021) Stormwater management impacts of small urbanising towns: The necessity of investigating the 'devil in the detail', Science of the Total Environment, 757, 143835 (13 pp.), doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143835, Institutional Repository
Cook, L. M.; Larsen, T. A. (2021) Towards a performance-based approach for multifunctional green roofs: an interdisciplinary review, Building and Environment, 188, 107489 (14 pp.), doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107489, Institutional Repository
Figueroa, A.; Jackiewicz, Z.; Löhner, R. (2021) Efficient two-step Runge-Kutta methods for fluid dynamics simulations, Applied Numerical Mathematics, 159, 1-20, doi:10.1016/j.apnum.2020.08.013, Institutional Repository