Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Modular technologies are to contribute to the sustainable development of Swiss urban water management. (Photo: iStock)

November 22, 2022

November 22, 2022New technologies in the water sector can contribute to the flexible and sustainable development of urban water management and the sustainable utilisation of water as a resource. In a recent article in the journal Aqua & Gas, a team of researchers from the aquatic research institute Eawag shows what opportunities and risks are associated with this.

Award of the Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize 2022 to Wenzel Gruber by ETH Rector Günther Dissertori (Photo: ETH, Nicola Pitaro)

November 21, 2022

November 21, 2022Eawag researchers Wenzel Gruber and Urs Schönenberger have won this year's Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize for their dissertations. Reducing emissions of the climate-damaging nitrous oxide from wastewater treatment plants and reducing the leaching of pesticides from drainage systems are the topics.

The researchers were able to use the experiment to show when and where arsenic and other elements from the water were bound to the iron. (Photo: Eawag)

October 18, 2022

October 18, 2022In many regions of the world, groundwater is contaminated with arsenic of natural origin. The harmful substance can be filtered out of water with the help of iron. Eawag researchers have for the first time made visible exactly what happens in this process in a new type of experimental set-up.

From left to right: Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director General, Janet Hering, Eawag Director, and Benno Laggner, Ambassador, Permanent Representative and Governor of Switzerland to the IAEA and Head of the Swiss delegation to the IAEA General Conference. (Photo: Michael Berg)

September 27, 2022

September 27, 2022Janet Hering, Director of the aquatic research institute Eawag, signed a cooperation agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday 26 September 2022. The cooperation between Eawag and the IAEA should help to further advance groundwater research and support the sustainable utilisation of groundwater resources.

September 20, 2022

September 20, 2022Around 140 participants from public administration, private engineering firms and research took advantage of the Eawag Info Day in Lausanne to learn about and exchange information on new possibilities for collecting and using water data.

Michel Riechmann (in the middle) accepts the Mülheim Water Award for the Autarky handwashing station, from Marc Buchholz, Mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr (far left). (Photo: IWW Zentrum Wasser)

September 16, 2022

September 16, 2022The “Water Wall” developed by Eawag researchers recycles handwashing and toilet flushing water in a closed cycle and can therefore be used in regions with scarce water resources or those without water and wastewater networks. Now the project has been awarded the Mülheim Water Award.