Department Urban Water Management

Projects

Multifunctional blue-green design

How to design blue-green infrastructure to enhance urban biodiversity?
Integrated, engineering design and decision support strategies for BGI at the neighborhood scale to address stormwater management, heat mitigation, and biodiversity enhancement in a current and future climate
Future synthetic rainfall time series for Switzerland in high spatial and temporal resolution
Plants and People in Urban Green Space How human and biophysical factors jointly shape biodiversity and human benefits in cities

Urban floods & hydroinformatics

Exploring the value of stormwater as a valuable resource to mitigate urban heat
A pluvial flood risk assessment framework for the evaluation of large-size blue-green infrastructures (bgis) in data-scarce, peri-urban regions.
Smart monitoring, data sharing and offering transnational access to lab and field facilities to the European Urban Drainage community.
The Eawag-Empa Blue-Green Campus lab is a research initiative to investigate climate adaptation solutions and foster collaboration between Eawag and Empa

Infrastructure transition

monitor the impact of urbanization and prepare for an urban living lab
The Urban Water Observatory (UWO) is a long-term (5-year) initiative of ETH and Eawag to establish a sensor network in Fehraltorf...
A pluvial flood risk assessment framework for the evaluation of large-size blue-green infrastructures (bgis) in data-scarce, peri-urban regions.
Quantifying the impact of different maintenance scenarios on BGI hydrological performance
Linking different projects within or across multiple ULLs through stakeholder interaction and information exchange

Stormwater quality and reuse

Quantifying micropollutants in stormwater control systems
Measuring micropollutants in combined sewer overflows with mobile HRMS
The Eawag-Empa Blue-Green Campus lab is a research initiative to investigate climate adaptation solutions and foster collaboration between Eawag and Empa

Wastewater-based epidemiology

Application of Wastewater-based Epidemiology to SARS-CoV-2 Detection
Analysis of human excretion products in wastewater as additional, independent indicators for the assessment of epidemiological information
High resolution mass spectrometry in the field

Intelligent network operations

Smart monitoring, data sharing and offering transnational access to lab and field facilities to the European Urban Drainage community.
Approach to sedimentation in sewer and urban drainage systems based on temperature measurements
We automate tedious evaluations with big-data methods and create the basis for faster and better decisions
Future synthetic rainfall time series for Switzerland in high spatial and temporal resolution
The Urban Water Observatory (UWO) is a long-term (5-year) initiative of ETH and Eawag to establish a sensor network in Fehraltorf...
A FAIR Metadata Standard for Observation Data from Urban Drainage Systems
PhD project aiming at developing contactless sensors based on spectrophotometry allowing real-time, non-intrusive and low-maintenance monitoring of wastewater pollution in sewers
Real-Time Monitoring & Management of Urban Pollution

Completed projects

Influence of uncertainties on the costs of urban water infrastructure
The aim of this project is to gain more insight about sustainable infrastructure management and to develop tools and methods for complex decision making for infrastructure planning.
Decentralisation changes wastewater quantity and quality that is discharged to the sewer. We investigate the effects of these changes on the operation of existing centralised sewer systems.
We quantify the physical disintegration of faeces in sewers - a stochastic detrition model is developed and calibrated by flow reactor experiments using PIV and image analysis backlight illumination
We aim at facilitating the use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in urban water management practice.
Development of systematic but generic methods for the generation of locally appropriate sanitation system options and for the quantification of sustainability performance indicators.
Goal is an improved planning procedure for sustainable water supply and wastewater infrastructure management that links into the existing Swiss governance structures.
The population has a high willingness to pay for reducing risks of wastewater flooding or combined sewer overflows
Network condition simulator for benchmarking sewer deterioration models
How can the overall performance of distributed treatment systems be estimated and maintained?
Quantifying micropollutant loads in combined and separate sewer overflows
High resolution mass spectrometry in the field
Kanalnetzbewirtschaftung für besseren Gewässerschutz
Alternative data collection and assimilation methods for urban flood modelling
Urban flood experiments and alternative data acquisition methods
Cost Effective Neural Technique to Alleviate Urban flood Risk
Commercial Microwave links for Urban Rainfall Monitoring (CoMMon)
Assessing influence of model structure deficiencies & input errors on the uncertainty of model prediction
Is your computer model too slow? Use emulators to speed it up!
In-Sewer LPWAN - A new LoRa-based synchronous mesh network to help monitoring in-sewer processes
Automated data validation for low-cost sensor networks
Pilotstudie zum Stand der Mischwasserbehandlung in Schweizer ARA
Advancing estimation of illicit drug use from wastewater samples - the role of in-sewer drug transformation.
The ‘Transitions Pathways Generator’ (TPG) model aims at the systematic generation of transition pathways describing technical adaptations of the urban drainage infrastructure.
Improving the environmental benefits of green roofs through system focused experiments and modeling
monitor the impact of urbanization and prepare for an urban living lab
Le programme de recherche stratégique inter- et transdisciplinaire vise à développer des systèmes d'approvisionnement en eau et d'assainissement innovants, non raccordés au réseau.
Development of self-powered sensored pipes for smart management of water distribution systems