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Through their work, Eawag trainees provide the basis for many years of water quality monitoring (Photo: Eawag, Manuel Koller)

May 30, 2023

May 30, 2023Trainees from Eawag’s analytical and training laboratory assist in the analysis of a wide variety of water samples. A prominent example is the National River Monitoring and Survey Programme (NADUF). In a video, we take a look behind the scenes of the laboratory and show its role for the NADUF programme.

Linda Strande and Sylvain Usher, Executive Director of AfWASA, with the Memorandum of Understanding (Photographer: Unknown)

May 25, 2023

May 25, 2023At the recent joint 21st AfWASA International Congress and Exhibition and 7th Conference on Faecal Sludge Management (FSM7), Eawag signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreement with the African Water and Sanitation Association. The two conferences took place under one roof in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

The contribution in the German pavilion at the Biennale of Architecture is more than just an exhibition. It wants to provide an action framework for a new building culture. (Photo: ARCH+ SUMMACUMMFEMMER BÜRO JULIANE GREB)

May 23, 2023

May 23, 2023On Saturday, 20 May, the 18th Biennale of Architecture in Venice opened its doors. In the German pavilion, which focuses on building in existing contexts and the recycling economy, also the Nutrient Harvester developed at Eawag is demonstrated. It processes the urine from two on-site dry separation toilets into fertiliser.

(from left to right) Halder Lia, Laborantin EFZ Chemie, Gsell Annina, Laborantin EFZ Chemie, Eberhard Jennifer, Laborantin EFZ Chemie, Rohrbach Andrin, Laborant EFZ Chemie, Isenschmid Sina, Laborantin EFZ Chemie, Hofland Max, Laborant EFZ Biologie, Erni David, ICT Fachmann EFZ, Tobler Pascal, Laborant EFZ Chemie, Pepe Alessandro, Laborant EFZ Chemie (Photo: Peter Penicka)

July 20, 2023

July 20, 2023Nine apprentices have recently completed their training at Eawag as laboratory technicians in chemistry and biology and as IT specialists. Congratulations!

Eawag researcher BJ Ward was awarded the ETH Medal for her doctoral thesis. (Photo: BJ Ward)

July 14, 2023

July 14, 2023Barbara Jeanne “BJ” Ward received the ETH Medal for her doctoral thesis on predicting the dewatering capacity of faecal sludge in mid-July. The medal honours excellent master and doctoral theses at ETH Zurich each year.

July 6, 2023

July 6, 2023The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences has elected five new members to the Swiss Young Academy, including Benjamin Hofmann, postdoctoral researcher in the Environmental Social Sciences Department at the Aquatic Research Institute Eawag.

Farmers spraying vegetables in the Zarcero region of Costa Rica. (Photo: Mirko Winkler, Swiss TPH)

June 27, 2023

June 27, 2023While the use of pesticides in industrial countries is being questioned more and more critically, less is known about their consequences on human health and the environment in tropical countries. The interdisciplinary project “Pestrop” is now changing this and also shows where the necessary measures need to be taken.

The scanning electron microscope image shows a colony of bacteria (coloured bluish) around a few micrometres small root (brown) in the soil. The image represents how bacteria and microbial communities influence CO2 release from the soil through heterotrophic respiration: The soil contains soil grains to which microbial communities adhere and process dissolved oxygen O2 and organic carbon DOC from organic matter (OM). Image: Springer Nature / Institute of Environmental Engineering

June 22, 2023

June 22, 2023CO2 emissions from heterotrophic respiration could increase by 40% by the end of the century.

June 20, 2023

June 20, 2023Every year, around 180 bachelor and master students are supervised at Eawag. They often participate directly in research projects. This integration, the flat hierarchies and Eawag’s interdisciplinary culture repeatedly lead to master theses receiving awards.

Beneath the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, a sewer conveys wastewater to the treatment plant. Rainwater is channelled through a separate pipe. (Photograph: Max Maurer / ETH Zurich)

June 14, 2023

June 14, 2023Out of sight, out of mind: we’ve been flushing away human waste ever since sewers were invented, using copious amounts of fresh water to expel it from our homes and cities as fast as the pipes can carry it. In an interview with the ETH magazine GLOBE, Eawag researchers Max Maurer and Kai Udert talk about the water management of the future.

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