Goal 3 – Good Health and well-being

Ensure a healthy life for all people of all ages and promote their well-being. Eawag promotes health by researching how to preserve clean drinking water and how it can be improved in the future. With its research, Eawag helps to achieve the following subgoals of the SDGs.

Subgoals

3.2 End preventable mortality of newborns and children under five years of age.
3.3 Combat transmittable diseases.
3.4 Reduce premature mortality from non-transmittable diseases and promote mental health.
3.9 Significantly reduce the number of deaths and illnesses due to hazardous chemicals, air, water and soil pollution and contamination.
3.D Strengthen the capacities to prevent national and global health risks.

Projects

Epidemiology on the basis of wastewater

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Groundwater Assessment Platform (GAP)

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Hydrogeology

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E. coli in drinking water

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REACH: Strategy to secure drinking water supply in Nepal

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Citizen Science: Knowledge as a weapon in the fight for clean water

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As the SDGs are closely interlinked and interdependent, this is a non-exhaustive selection of projects.