Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

In Bern, the Water Flow Diagram (WFD) was used in practice for the first time. (Photo: Wikimedia commons, CC-BY-2.0; Editing: Eawag)

March 17, 2023

March 17, 2023The UN Water Conference is an urgent appeal to the global community to act on Sustainable Development Goal 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation. Eawag is willing to make its contribution and presents new approaches such as the Urban Water Flow Diagram, which improves water management in cities.

March 16, 2023

March 16, 2023Black Soldier Flies and the transformation of organic waste into marketable products has been a main research area of the Municipal Solid Waste Management group at Eawag for more than 12 years. Now, the Sustainable Waste-based Insect Farming Technologies project has received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

The grayling (Thymallus thymallus) is threatened by climate warming. Its endangerment status varies from “vulnerable” and “strongly endangered” to “threatened with extinction” depending on the populations (photo: Michel Roggo).

March 2, 2023

March 2, 2023The updated Red List of fish documents a further endangerment. Prof. Ole Seehausen explains why.

Water bodies and the species living in them are exposed to numerous sources of stress, of which hydropower is only one. (Photo: Alessandro Della Bella, Eawag)

February 27, 2023

February 27, 2023Where is there still untapped potential in the use of water bodies for energy generation and what are the associated risks for water systems?

Nadja Contzen, head of the Eawag research group Environmental Health Psychology (left), and Josianne Kollmann, postdoctoral researcher in the group (right). (Photo: Andri Bryner)

February 16, 2023

February 16, 2023A new “Theory of Change” shows which psychological factors influence the use of decentralised water treatment technologies and which measures can support their introduction.

February 10, 2023

February 10, 2023Tomorrow, 11 February, is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, an initiative supported by UNESCO encouraging women and girls to pursue a career in science and promoting diversity in research.

Rooftop garden areas, such as this one on the 6th floor of the Toni Molkerei (dairy) site in Zurich, can contribute a great deal to water retention in the city (Photo: Brigitte Kisseleff, ERZ)

December 13, 2022

December 13, 2022The Aqua Urbanica symposium, co-organised by Eawag, explored the question of what is needed to implement the sponge city concept. With the help of this concept, cities should be able to mitigate the consequences of climate change.