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.

Professor Mario Schirmer at the Chriesbach in Dübendorf (Photo: Daniele La Cecilia, Eawag)

March 8, 2023

March 8, 2023The hydrogeologist Mario Schirmer has been appointed as adjunct professor by Canada’s Laval University. He tells us why he is committed to teaching, research and society.

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.

Amphipods are collected from groundwater and then genetically characterised. (Photo: Eawag)

January 27, 2023

January 27, 2023Switzerland's groundwater is home to a multitude of hitherto unknown organisms. An Eawag research project is shining a light into the darkness and revealing this habitat’s exceptional biodiversity.

Oliver Schilling analysing spring water on Mount Fuji. (Photo: T. Schilling)

January 20, 2023

January 20, 2023Environmental DNA analysis of microbial communities can help us understand how a particular region’s water cycle works. Oliver Schilling, Professor at Eawag and the University of Basel, recently used this method to examine the water cycle on Mount Fuji. His results have implications for Switzerland as well.

Prof. Urs von Gunten pictured in his office at Eawag with a collection of drinking water samples from all over the world. (Photo: Andri Bryner)

January 10, 2023

January 10, 2023Eawag researcher and EPFL professor, Urs von Gunten has been awarded a prize for outstanding services by the journal Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T).

December 15, 2022

December 15, 2022Work is currently underway in Montreal at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) to negotiate a framework agreement to preserve biodiversity. In addition to pesticides, nutrients and plastic waste, certain other chemicals ought to be restricted in their production and use, or replaced by less problematic substances, according to a recommendation by a group of scientists, including an environmental toxicologist from Eawag.