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Last changed: 16.06.2025 Water knowledge Find out more about selected Eawag research topics. Interactive knowledge Interactive knowledge Take a tour through the history of Swiss water protection. Find out more about the susta
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Early detection for wastewater treatment plants
Last changed: 17.06.2025 The quality of surface waters is under various forms of pressure as we use more and more chemicals that find their way into water bodies one way or another. This makes the role of wastewater treatment
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Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize
Last changed: 18.06.2025 In 1980, two years after the death of Otto Jaag (1900–1978) and at his request, Elisabeth Jaag-Schenk set up the "Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize" fund at the ETH Zurich, in order to recognize outsta
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Last changed: 18.06.2025 Normally the brochures are sent out to potential participants 3 months before the course starts. Contact Tel. +41 58 765 57 65 peak@ clutter eawag.ch
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Plankton Ecology
Last changed: 19.06.2025 Plankton Ecology Uncovering the secret life of plankton for a sustainable management of changing lakes The mission of our research group is to explore plankton communities in their natural environment
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Department Aquatic Ecology

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Plankton Ecology
SeeWandel-Climate
Last changed: 19.06.2025 SeeWandel-Climate: Modelling the consequences of climate change and neobiota for Lake Constance Picture: IStock It is expected that the ecosystem of Lake Constance will change significantly in the com
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Department Aquatic Ecology

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Department Surface Waters - Research and Management

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Department Fish Ecology & Evolution

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Department Urban Water Management

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Department Environmental Chemistry

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Department Environmental Toxicology

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Department Process Engineering

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Department Water Resources and Drinking Water

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Department Environmental Microbiology

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Department Water Resources & Drinking Water
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Department Urban Water Management
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Department Surface Waters Research & Management
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Department Water Resources & Drinking Water

Expert of: arsenic, environmental geochemistry, trace elements, water resources, soils
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Department Environmental Toxicology

Expert of: fish, molecular ecotoxicology

Focal points: Neurotoxicity, Fish behavior, Molecular mechanisms of toxicity, Ecotoxicology, Zebrafish, Environmental contaminants
DiMark
Last changed: 26.06.2025 Digital lake indicators for the Alpine Region New technologies have a great potential for improving environmental monitoring. For example, the satellite-based European environmental monitoring program
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Department Surface Waters - Research and Management

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Abishek Narayan becomes a member of the Swiss Young Academy
Last changed: 26.06.2025 Mit dieser Wahl werden nicht nur wissenschaftlich herausragende Leistungen gewürdigt, sondern auch die Ideen und das Engagement der neu berufenen Forscherinnen und Forscher an der Schnittstelle zwisch
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Abishek Narayan becomes a member of the Swiss Young Academy
GIS - Geographic Information System
Last changed: 01.07.2025 GIS - Geographic Information System A map tells more than a thousand words... Research in the aquatic sector involves many different disciplines. Thus a geographic information system (GIS) provides an
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Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling

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GIS - Geographic Information System
Underground microbial life more stable than expected
Last changed: 26.06.2025 Thermal groundwater systems, such as those found in the Alps near Lavey-les-Bains, are naturally warm, underground bodies of water, some of which emerge as hot springs on the earth’s surface. These sy
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Underground microbial life more stable than expected
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The cities of the future are blue-green
Last changed: 03.07.2025 Growing cities around the world are putting biodiversity under pressure. At the same time, new research shows that urban areas can be part of the solution. But how should cities be planned and designe
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The cities of the future are blue-green
Main Focus
Last changed: 04.07.2025 Main focus Our core interests are: Basic principles of the evolutionary ecology of microorganisms in their natural environment. The assembly, dynamics, and functionality of microbial communities. Micr
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Department Environmental Microbiology

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Bridging the gap between data science and mechanistic modelling to gain knowledge about community assembly
Last changed: 04.07.2025 Bridging the gap between data science and mechanistic modelling to gain knowledge about community assembly Background Community assembly in ecosystems depends on various factors: On which species are
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Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling

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Bridging the gap between data science and mechanistic modelling to gain knowledge about community assembly
Daniel McCurry appointed Professor of Water and Wastewater Chemistry
Last changed: 11.07.2025 Daniel McCurry is a first-rate researcher and teacher in the field of environmental engineering, with a focus on environmental chemistry and is currently Associate Professor at the University of South
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Daniel McCurry appointed Professor of Water and Wastewater Chemistry
Quagga in ARAs
Last changed: 14.07.2025 Quagga in ARAs? – Überleben Quaggamuschel-Larven eine Kläranlage? Titelbild: IStock Die Quaggamuschel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) ist eine invasive Süsswassermuschel, die ursprünglich aus dem Sc
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Department Aquatic Ecology

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WaterReuseLab
Last changed: 14.07.2025 WaterReuseLab Bengaluru as a real-world laboratory for transforming urban water management The WaterReuseLab project aims at analyzing whether and how a new generation of high-quality decentralized wa
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Department Environmental Social Sciences

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How much Swiss watercourses will warm up
Last changed: 15.07.2025 Climate change is already clearly noticeable in Swiss waters. Water temperatures have risen continuously in recent decades and runoff volumes have also changed. This is not only a problem for heat-sen
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How much Swiss watercourses will warm up
Impact of high-temperature heat storage on groundwater
Last changed: 15.07.2025 In winter, conventional geothermal heat pumps draw heat from the ground to heat buildings. The borehole heat accumulators installed on the Empa and Eawag site are geothermal probes that can not only d
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Impact of high-temperature heat storage on groundwater
Bacteria eat bacteria
Last changed: 17.07.2025 Even tiny organisms can be brutal – and not only eliminate potential food competitors, but also use their dead neighbours as a food source. This is the conclusion reached by the research group led by
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Bacteria eat bacteria
How much water is left for nature? – The search for the appropriate environmental flow
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How much water is left for nature? – The search for the appropriate environmental flow
Fewer and «greener» chemicals to protect biodiversity
Last changed: 18.07.2025 Habitat loss and isolation, as well as chemical pollution of the environment, are among the major drivers of biodiversity loss. Now and until December 19, government representatives, researchers and a
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Earthworms avoid tyre abrasion
Last changed: 18.07.2025 Car tyres wear out while driving. Tyre abrasion forms. These small particles contain rubber, minerals, bitumen and numerous chemicals, some of which come from the tyres themselves and some from the ro
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Earthworms avoid tyre abrasion
Microplastics in Swiss waters
Last changed: 21.07.2025 Plastic is exceptionally durable, as it is only slowly degraded or transformed, and is transported over very long distances. Microplastics can therefore be found practically everywhere – in waters, in
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Microplastics in Swiss waters
Microplastics and wastewater from roads
Last changed: 21.07.2025 Large quantities of microplastics are found in wastewater from roads. It comes from the abrasion of car and lorry tyres, polymers and bitumen contained in asphalt, shoe soles and road markings. Partic
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Microplastics and wastewater from roads
Ecotoxicological and Humantoxicological effects of microplastics
Last changed: 21.07.2025 Photos of dead sea birds and fish with a belly full of plastic waste have been widely seen. The dangers of large plastic particles in the environment are obvious. If plastic particles are confused wit
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Ecotoxicological and Humantoxicological effects of microplastics
How microplastics get into the environment
Last changed: 21.07.2025 Globally, 350 million metric tons of plastic are produced annually. This corresponds to an average of 50 kilograms of plastic per person per year. About half of this is released into the environment t
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Microplastics and drinking water
Last changed: 21.07.2025 The World Health Organisation (WHO) declares that based on the limited information available, microplastics in drinking water today do not appear to pose any danger to humans. Other contaminants are m
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"We’re on the right path, but the pace is still too slow"
Last changed: 14.12.2023 Intensive land use due to transport, settlement and agriculture leads to the fact that Swiss water bodies are sometimes highly polluted locally. The picture shows the Saane near Fribourg (Photo: iStoc
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Info Day Magazine 2023: Aquatic research for sustainable development

"We’re on the right path, but the pace is still too slow"
Exceptional diversity of whitefish
Last changed: 22.07.2025 The diversity of whitefish species in the large Swiss lakes is unique. It has developed over the last 15,000 years or so and plays a central role in these ecosystems, as whitefish naturally represent
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Wastewater
Last changed: 24.07.2025
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Department Process Engineering

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Scaling up technologies
Last changed: 24.07.2025 Scaling up technologies MEWS conducts applied research to push technologies from innovative and transferring, to technologies that are field-ready for implementation. The research group Management of
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Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

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Successful spin-off celebrates anniversary
Last changed: 24.07.2025 ‘We have benefited greatly from the network,’ explains Miriam Harter, one of the co-founders of Ranas, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month. The spin-off was created in 2020 from a re
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11th International Steven Hoogendijk Award (ISHA) goes to Linda Strande
Last changed: 24.07.2025
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11th International Steven Hoogendijk Award (ISHA) goes to Linda Strande
Strategic Environmental Sanitation Planning
Last changed: 29.07.2025 Strategic Environmental Sanitation Planning Sandec’s research on Strategic Environmental Sanitation Planning (SESP) systematically addresses the complexity of urban sanitation in order to develop appr
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Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

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Strategic Environmental Sanitation Planning
Fisheries Advisory Service
Last changed: 30.07.2025 Fisheries Advisory Service FIBER – Advisory service and training for fishermen The Swiss Fisheries Advisory Service is a link between fisheries-related research, administration, and angling. FIBER pro
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Department Fish Ecology & Evolution

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Apprenticeships
Last changed: 04.08.2025 Skills development Eawag is committed to making a meaningful contribution to the education mandate of the apprenticeship system, and offers several apprenticeship places each year. We mentor and suppo
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