Wastewater

Optimise and overcome new challenges
The wastewater infrastructure in Switzerland is worth 125 billion Swiss francs. Nine hundred treatment plants clean the country’s wastewater around the clock. Part of the work of Eawag is to examine how this success story can be continuously optimised and tailored to suit the particular conditions in other countries, as well as to look at how to overcome new challenges
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Scientific publications
Reynaert, E.; Steiner, P.; Yu, Q.; D'Olif, L.; Joller, N.; Schneider, M. Y.; Morgenroth, E. (2023) Predicting microbial water quality in on-site water reuse systems with online sensors, Water Research, 240, 120075 (13 pp.), doi:10.1016/j.watres.2023.120075, Institutional Repository
Markale, I.; Carrel, M.; Kurz, D. L.; Morales, V. L.; Holzner, M.; Jiménez-Martínez, J. (2023) Internal biofilm heterogeneities enhance solute mixing and chemical reactions in porous media, Environmental Science and Technology, 57(21), 8065-8074, doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c09082, Institutional Repository
Larivé, O.; Torii, S.; Derlon, N.; Kohn, T. (2023) Selective elimination of enterovirus genotypes by activated sludge and chlorination, Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 9(6), 1620-1633, doi:10.1039/d3ew00050h, Institutional Repository
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Cover picture: At the Zurich Werdhölzli plant, Eawag researchers Christoph Ort, Pravin Ganesanandamoorthy und Anina Kull collect samples which will be tested in the laboratory for SARS-CoV-2. (Photo: Esther Michel)