Last changed: 27.06.2022When thermometers in California recorded scorching temperatures in the summer of 2000, even the salmon in Klamath River felt the effects. The temperature of the water drove them to gather in unusually
Last changed: 29.06.2022Peter Reichert says: “I am fascinated by using mathematical methods to contribute to understanding environmental systems and to support their management.” When he came to Eawag in April 1985, after co
Last changed: 29.06.2022On a perfect summer evening, the boat “Stadt Uster” set sail last Friday. While the passengers were sipping their aperitifs, the boat headed first for the Eawag research platform anchored off the smal
Last changed: 01.07.2022It’s a hot topic, at least on social media: tiny plastic particles allegedly end up not only in oceans and lakes, but also in drinking water – and, yes, even in bottled mineral water. Eawag and the Zu
Last changed: 04.07.2022Karin Ingold, group leader at Eawag, professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern and vice president of the Oeschger Center for Climate Research, has been involved in the
Last changed: 05.07.2022When fish ingest microplastics, they often also ingest progesterone. This compound is subsequently released into the digestive tract through chemical reactions with the fish’s digestive fluids. That’s
Last changed: 07.07.2022“In the laboratory, you have very controlled conditions, but the results cannot always be transferred 1:1 to the outside world because our world is much more complex,” explains Christoph Walcher from
Last changed: 13.07.2022It covers water governance issues such as flood protection and fisheries, as well as overarching concepts like integrated water management and social-ecological interactions.
Last changed: 18.07.2022On 29 June 2022, the Federal Council elected Martin Ackermann as the new Director of Eawag at the request of the ETH Board. “We are very pleased with today’s news,” says Janet Hering on behalf of the
Last changed: 18.07.2022African species have so far been completely underrepresented in projects to decode their genome. The African BioGenome Project therefore wants to sequence the genomes of 105,000 endemic plants, animal
Last changed: 19.07.2022This year, once again around 60 guests from Swiss politics, business and administration accepted the invitation of the ETH Domain to visit Davos. As part of the World Economic Forum, Federal Councillo
Last changed: 19.07.2022The series with Salome Mwaiko , Claire Aksamit , Tim Alexander , Rohini Athavale und Bernhard Wehrli was created as part of a photojournalism course that Christian Dinkel is tanking at the MAZ in Luce
Last changed: 19.07.2022The joint initiatives focus on the strategic research priorities "Energy, Climate and Environmental Sustainability" and "Engagement and Dialogue with Society". In the strategic focus "Energy, Climate
Last changed: 19.07.2022Mr Bouffard, you were instrumental in the conception of the Info Day “Dynamic Waters: New Tools, New Opportunities” at Eawag. Why is this symposium necessary? The technologies and tools for recording
Last changed: 21.07.2022Mika Marttunen worked as a researcher and Valerie Belton as an academic guest at Eawag. Together with Judit Lienert they received an award for their review "Structuring problems for Multi-Criteria Dec
Last changed: 13.07.2022Within the conference the top 3 Splash Talk Presentations were honored with a prize based on reviewers’ ratings and conference participants’ votes. Authors: Jan Streit, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute
Last changed: 21.07.2022Their paper "Global socio-technical regimes“ develops a novel perspective on how conventional centralized wastewater infrastructure is diffused around the world. It is available as a working paper .
Last changed: 28.07.2022The new national research programme “Advancing 3R – Animals, Research and Society”(NRP 79) of the Swiss National Science Foundation promotes scientific projects that contribute to improving, reducing
Last changed: 28.07.2022The day covered some of the political and technical key aspects to the implementation of safe RRR businesses promoting cost recovery in Lima’s sanitation systems by turning waste streams into valuable
Last changed: 28.07.2022In particular the role of water science and technology innovation and the necessary institutional-economic enabling environment to foster sustainable behavioral change in current water use and depleti
Last changed: 28.07.2022The organization runs waste treatment facilities, a mobile toilet service for events and construction sites, and a household toilet service for the urban areas of Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitian. SOIL
Last changed: 28.07.2022The first stakeholder workshop in FANFAR was successfully carried out in Niamey, Niger, from 16. – 20. September 2018. Around 40 decision-makers and stakeholders from 15 West African countries partici
Last changed: 28.07.2022From 14 to 17 March 2018, a group of 34 leading experts from academia and practice met at the “Centro Congressi Stefano Franscini” at Monte Verità in Ascona to discuss the future of urban water manage
Last changed: 02.08.2022"Wow, that's so beautiful!" – Children and adults were audibly enthralled by images from the Eawag underwater camera Aquascope during the "Science City 2019 Meeting Point" exhibition at the ETH Zurich
Last changed: 02.08.2022Can drones help meticulously monitor the water quality of large water bodies? That is the hope of Francesco Pomati, biologist and Group Leader at the aquatic research institute Eawag. Pomati sees pote
Last changed: 02.08.2022The sky is cloudless, the air humid. People are longing for a refreshing dip in the lake. The water, however, sometimes does not seem so inviting – it might have a greenish or reddish colour – and the
Last changed: 02.08.2022There was a mix of presentations and group work sessions, which allowed Eawag researchers to share their knowledge and provided the participants with opportunities to develop ideas for new solutions.
Last changed: 02.08.2022The work explores in-depth questions on voter turnout and voting decisions in the run-up to the 2015 National Council and Council of States elections (NZZ Libro Verlag).
Last changed: 08.08.2022Certain sources of chemical pollution of the aquatic environment, such as agriculture or municipal wastewater, are now reasonably well known. But knowledge of the quantities and diversity of synthetic
Last changed: 09.08.2022The keynote was held by Paul Polak, serial social entrepreneur and co-author of The Business Solution to Poverty. He highlighted the need to enter into a direct dialogue with poor customers before des
Last changed: 09.08.2022In his work the market potential of on-site treatment systems are estimated on a spatially explicit scale with help of geographical information systems (GIS). With help of the developed methodology th
Last changed: 09.08.2022The article "An agenda for service research at the base of the pyramid" was rewarded for its important social contribution to the service research community. The article develops an agenda for service
Last changed: 09.08.2022The professorship is combined with a part-time position in Utrecht. At the same time, he remains employed as a researcher and head of department at Eawag. Bernhard Truffer's research interests are tec
Last changed: 09.08.2022His paper entitled "National Parliamentary Coordination after Lisbon: A Network Approach" (together with Thomas Malang) has been awarded 500 EURO.
Last changed: 09.08.2022The paper discusses the book's contribution to the current discussion on how companies can successfully transform themselves from producers to manufacturing service providers.
Last changed: 11.08.2022Many middle- or low-income countries suffer from a lack of personnel suitably trained in, for example, the maintenance of urban drinking water systems or composting of organic waste. To enable people
Last changed: 12.08.2022“For a long time, the collection of wastewater at treatment plants was the central paradigm for urban water management in Switzerland, even though the sewer system accounts for 80 per cent of the tota
Last changed: 17.08.2022We congratulate our apprentices on their successful completion of their apprenticeship and wish them all the best for the future! A big thank you to all the vocational and practical trainers for your
Last changed: 24.08.2022Legionella are bacteria that live in water and can be found in many water pipes, shower heads, ventilation systems, boilers and cooling towers. They can sometimes also infect people if they enter the
Last changed: 02.09.2022Not every pollutant in man-made. Some occur naturally in rock and thus also in groundwater. For example fluoride, which has a toxic effect when ingested in large quantities and causes bones and joints
Last changed: 09.09.2022She received the honor of being invited to speak at the International Symposium on Toxicity Assessment, taking place at the University of Saskatoon in Canada. In her public pub talk (Tox on Tap), she
Last changed: 20.09.2022GST-based biotransformation in fish Analysis of GST proteins and biotransformation products in zebrafish (Photo: Alena Tierbach) Zebrafish early life stages and cell lines can be used as alternative t
Last changed: 22.09.2022Lakes are considered precise indicators of climate change and other large-scale changes. Phenomena such as eutrophication and fundamental changes in lake species composition are accordingly well studi
