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Swiss Fisheries Advisory Service to be continued
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Eawag and the Federal Office for the Environment have been funding the Swiss Fisheries Advisory Service, Fiber, since 2004. During this period, Fiber has developed into an important bridge between res
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Swiss Fisheries Advisory Service to be continued
Legitimacy – the key to successful implementation
Last changed: 15.10.2019 For water utilities in many parts of California – a region suffering from chronic water scarcity – the introduction of potable water reuse has proved to be a hard sell: innovative systems enabling dri
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Legitimacy – the key to successful implementation
Energy-positive wastewater treatment
Last changed: 15.10.2019 If this potential were exploited (e.g. by anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge for biogas generation), the amount of energy produced would be equivalent to the output of 12 large conventional power st
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Energy-positive wastewater treatment
Fascinating discovery in the Gulf of California
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Reliable climate predictions are only possible if all the relevant factors are known. Such predictions can be facilitated by knowledge of past global warming events. It has been hypothesized that rapi
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Fascinating discovery in the Gulf of California
Eawag researcher Annette Johnson passed away
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Annette Johnson worked in research at Eawag for about 30 years. One of her special areas was the handling of geogenic trace substances in ground water and drinking water. In January 2015, as an outgro
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Eawag researcher Annette Johnson passed away
Climate change rapidly warming world’s lakes
Last changed: 15.10.2019 More than 60 scientists took part in the research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and announced today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The study found lake
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Climate change rapidly warming world’s lakes
Christoph Moschet wins Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize
Last changed: 15.10.2019 The level of pesticide pollution in Swiss surface waters is greater than previously supposed, by a factor of between two and ten. The pesticides originate from agriculture and from urban areas. Within
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Christoph Moschet wins Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize
22.10.2015

17:30 - 19:30

Public Guided Tour Eawag Kastanienbaum

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Methane oxidation fuelled by algal oxygen production
Last changed: 15.10.2019 In contrast to oceans, freshwater lakes – and tropical reservoirs – are significant sources of methane emissions. Methane, a greenhouse gas, arises from the degradation of organic material settling on
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Methane oxidation fuelled by algal oxygen production
Research for the energy turnaround
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Coordinated energy research is a cornerstone of Energy Strategy 2050: it supports the substantial reduction of energy consumption, promotes new technologies and explores the social context. Eawag cont
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Research for the energy turnaround
Native fish species under pressure in the Engadine and Poschiavo
Last changed: 15.10.2019 From 2010 to 2014, a total of 26 prealpine lakes were studied as part of Projet Lac, with over 60 fish species being recorded. In 2012, in cooperation with Canton Graubünden’s Hunting and Fishery Offi
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Native fish species under pressure in the Engadine and Poschiavo
Information sheet on microplastics in the environment
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Microplastics – plastic particles less than five millimetres in diameter – can be found in oceans, lakes and rivers worldwide. It has been estimated that over 21,000 tonnes of microplastics are floati
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Information sheet on microplastics in the environment
A short trip with federal Councillor Doris Leuthard to South Africa
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Four days South Africa with inland flights between Johannesburg, Port Elisabeth und Capetown – not a carbon neutral trip. Was it worth the long way? JH: In my view, international travel by the members
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A short trip with federal Councillor Doris Leuthard to South Africa
Janet Hering elected for US Academy of Engineering
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honours those who have made outstanding contributions to "eng
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Janet Hering elected for US Academy of Engineering
Tackling arsenic and fluoride in drinking water
Last changed: 15.10.2019 An estimated 300 million people worldwide use drinking water contaminated with arsenic or fluoride. These trace elements are natural (geogenic) contaminants, leached into groundwater from rocks and se
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Tackling arsenic and fluoride in drinking water
RECORD Catchment (2012 – 2016)
Last changed: 29.07.2021 RECORD Catchment (2012 – 2016) In Switzerland, river sections of a total length of about 4000 km should be restored in the next decades. Main aim of these river restoration measures is the improvement
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RECORD Catchment (2012 – 2016)
Production of fertilizer out of digester supernatant and urine
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Recycle of nitrogen and phosphorus at the WWTP Kloten/Opfikon via combined air stripping (full scale experiments) and urine treatment The central objective of this full-scale project is the further de
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Production of fertilizer out of digester supernatant and urine
Ozonation ARA Neugut, Dübendorf
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Ozonation at the WWTP Neugut Monitoring and Control of Ozonation for Micropollutant Elimination by UV Absorbance Measurement Picture: Semi-technical pilot-ozonation plant with ozone generator, column
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Ozonation ARA Neugut, Dübendorf
Janet Hering elected for third term as Eawag Director
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Interview with Prof Janet Hering: Switzerland: a leading example of sustainable water management. Switzerland’s drinking water is safe and of high quality. This is the result of an effective water pro
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Janet Hering elected for third term as Eawag Director
Continuing decline in biodiversity
Last changed: 15.10.2019 According to the professionals, the situation of surface waters is equally concerning. “In the lakes, the number of native whitefish species decreased by almost 40 percent between 1950 and 1990 as a r
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Continuing decline in biodiversity
Water Supply Structures in the Canton Baselland
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Water Supply Structures in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft Decentralized and small organizational structures characterize the water supply sector in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. Each municipality ge
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Water Supply Structures in the Canton Baselland
04.06.2015

17:00 - 20:00

Eawag Alumni Event

Place: Forum Chriesbach, Atrium Leader: Alexandra Fumasoli, Caitlin Proctor, Caroline Saul, Ina Sonego A successful academic career requires great flexibility with respect to where you live and work.
Predicting the formation of new species
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Why do some groups of species diversify – in just a few thousand years – to the point of forming a wide variety of new species, while others remain essentially unchanged for millions of years? This is
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Predicting the formation of new species
A health check for European streams
Last changed: 15.10.2019 To assess the condition of rivers and streams, environmental scientists generally measure variables such as temperature, acidity and nutrient concentrations. They also determine the composition of the
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A health check for European streams
Pardo alla Carriera for Eawag-film producer
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Swiss cinema lovers probably know Fueter from the Oscar-winning Film «Reise der Hoffnung» or one of his later successes, «Grounding» or «Mein Name ist Eugen» but less people will know that one of Fuet
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Pardo alla Carriera for Eawag-film producer
Hong Yang appointed Titular Professor at the University of Basel
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Hong Yang has been a researcher at Eawag in Dübendorf since 1999 and heads up the research group for Water, Environment and Food Security. Her research interest lies in understanding the impact of inc
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Hong Yang appointed Titular Professor at the University of Basel
Ô nhiễm nước ngầm tại đồng bằng sông Hồng / Việt Nam
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Viet-Titel English Asen và mangan là các chất ô nhiễm phổ biến trong nước ăn uống tại nhiều nước trên thế giới. Với nguồn gốc tự nhiên là chủ yếu, trong điều kiện thuận lợi, asen và mangan được giải p
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Ô nhiễm nước ngầm tại đồng bằng sông Hồng / Việt Nam
Alfred Johny Wüest to become a member of the Eawag Directorate
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Following his studies in particle physics at the University of Zurich and postgraduate work in “Urban Hydrology und Water Management” at Eawag, Johny Wüest received his doctorate from the ETH/Eawag, w
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Alfred Johny Wüest to become a member of the Eawag Directorate
Tove Larsen will become member of directorate
Last changed: 15.10.2019 Tove Larsen holds a Doctor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and has been a senior scientist in Eawag’s Department of Urban Water Management since 1999. As a member of the Directorate, Tove Larsen will
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Tove Larsen will become member of directorate
Professorship for Bernhard Truffer
Last changed: 15.10.2019 The professorship is connected to a part-time position in Utrecht. At the same time, he will continue to work at Eawag as researcher and head of department. Bernard Truffer’s research interests are in
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Professorship for Bernhard Truffer
Carbonization of Urban Bio-waste
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Carbonization of Urban Bio-waste Slow pyrolysis refers to the thermal decomposition (breakdown under heat) of biomass into a carbon-rich solid residue (char), with gases and liquids as by-products. Th
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Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

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Carbonization of Urban Bio-waste
Windrow Technique
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Windrow Technique The windrow technique is suitable for medium size to large scale composting schemes. For manual operation the capacity should not exceed 10 tons of waste per day. The fresh waste is
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Decentralised Composting

Windrow Technique
Impressum
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Gruppenseite Alder
Last changed: 27.07.2021
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Gruppenseite Alder
Esriss: Egyptian-Swiss Research on Innovations in Sustainable Sanitation
Last changed: 29.07.2021 ESRISS: Egyptian-Swiss Research on Innovations in Sustainable Sanitation ESRISS is a Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs ( SECO ) funded research project at Sandec that deals with the sanitat
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Esriss: Egyptian-Swiss Research on Innovations in Sustainable Sanitation
Guidelines for external projects
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Guidelines for external projects If you would like to analyze noble gases or transient tracers in water samples in one of our labs, please be aware that we can handle external projects either on a com
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Environmental Isotopes

Guidelines for external projects
Tritium (H3)
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Tritium (3H) Tritium is a very important environmental tracer for the study of lakes, oceans and groundwater. The tritium (3H) isotope τ½ Tritium ( 3 H) is the radioactive isotope of H that decays by
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Publications Water Supply and Treatment
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Geogenic contamination Water resource quality (WRQ) For more publications about WRQ, please consult the WRQ website . Water and sanitation in developing countries: geochemical aspects of quality and t
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FaME - Faecal Management Enterprises
Last changed: 29.07.2021 FaME - Faecal Management Enterprises Developing reuse-oriented faecal sludge solutions through value chain management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Context: In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), onsite sanitation sys
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FaME - Faecal Management Enterprises
Same, same but different? Multiplex networks in Swiss and German Climate Mitigation Policy.
Last changed: 29.03.2022 Same, same but different? Multiplex networks in Swiss and German Climate Mitigation Policy. Mitigating climate change is a complex policy problem. Sources of harmful greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can
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Same, same but different? Multiplex networks in Swiss and German Climate Mitigation Policy.
PEGO - Policy and Politics in the multi-level climate change regime
Last changed: 29.03.2022 Policy and Politics in the multi-level climate change regime The goal of the Paris Agreement to keep global warming well below 2°C can only be reached if countries commit to and adopt ambitious mitiga
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PEGO - Policy and Politics in the multi-level climate change regime
PEGO - Climate change adaptation strategies in Switzerland
Last changed: 29.07.2021 Climate change adaptation strategies in Switzerland © Kecko 2013 This project addresses the research question on how local climate change adaptation strategies are designed and may evolve. We strongly
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PEGO - Climate change adaptation strategies in Switzerland
PEGO - Managing telecoupled landscapes
Last changed: 29.03.2022 Managing telecoupled landscapes for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviationg [Translate to English:] © Cheryl 2011 Social-ecological systems (SES) of forest frontiers i
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N2Oara
Last changed: 29.03.2022 N2Oara – Greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment In the N2Oara project, we develop a monitoring concept for off-gas emission from wastewater treatment. The overall aims of the project are t
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Why we follow or don’t follow the Coronavirus rules
Last changed: 01.04.2022 Until recently, the environmental psychologists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag and the Eawag spin-off Ranas mainly focused their research on how people in unsaf
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Why we follow or don’t follow the Coronavirus rules
PlaNet – Planned networking of stakeholders
Last changed: 01.04.2022 Every year, Swiss municipalities implement countless environmental and infrastructure projects, for example in waste water management, flood protection or water revitalisation. Interest is often great
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PlaNet – Planned networking of stakeholders
"Wastewater is a source of nutrients, energy and water"
Last changed: 01.04.2022 Nowadays circular economy mostly concerns the recycling of materials and raw materials. However, closing cycles also holds enormous potential in other areas - and in some cases, we are already much fu
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"Wastewater is a source of nutrients, energy and water"
Global warming may increase the resistance of viruses
Last changed: 01.04.2022 Enteroviruses, which can cause infections such as a cold or polio, and other pathogenic viruses enter wastewater via faeces and are ultimately released into surface waters. There they can be inactivat
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Global warming may increase the resistance of viruses
Monitoring of air quality – new station on the Eawag site
Last changed: 01.04.2022 The Dübendorf monitoring station, which had been in operation since 1980 on the site of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), has been replaced by a modern statio
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Monitoring of air quality – new station on the Eawag site