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Treated wastewater can be continuously monitored using online monitoring with organisms. The data obtained in this way makes it possible to respond quickly to acute stress. (Photo: Ecotox Centre)
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Early detection for wastewater treatment plants
June 17, 2025

Researchers from the Ecotox Centre, Eawag and the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland have tested combined biological and chemical online monitoring as an early warning system at a municipal wastewater treatment plant. The system is able to detect peak loads of micropollutants in treated wastewater and identify toxic pollutants in real time. In this way, it can contribute to improving wastewater management.
Flood of the Rhone near Sierre in June 2024 (Photo: Canton Valais).
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Review of the 2024 water policy
May 13, 2025

The year 2024 was very warm and very wet, especially in early summer. This led to a welcome replenishment of groundwater reservoirs and record hydropower production, but also to severe flooding. In Bern, the focus was on the further expansion of hydropower and the pollution of water resources by pesticides and the "eternal chemicals" PFAS.
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