Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

February 6, 2015

February 6, 2015The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 67 new members and 12 foreign members, announced NAE President Dan Mote Jr. Thursday, February 5th.

Research for the energy turnaround (Photo: Alma Derungs/BAFU)

January 15, 2015

January 15, 2015Mandated by the Federal Council, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is launching two National Research Programmes (NRPs) to explore the scientific and technological as well as the social and economic aspects of implementing Energy Strategy 2050.

December 12, 2014

December 12, 2014At its meeting on 10 and 11 December 2014, the ETH Board elected Johny Wüest to become a member of the Eawag Directorate.

December 11, 2014

December 11, 2014Effective environmental management depends on a detailed knowledge of the distribution of species. But taxonomists are in short supply, and some species can be difficult to identify, even for experts.

November 24, 2014

November 24, 2014At the ETH Day 2014 Lisa Scholten was awarded the Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize for her dissertation. This prize is given in recognition of outstanding doctoral and master‘s dissertations on the topic of water protection and hydrology and was handed over by Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella, Rector ETHZ.

November 4, 2014

November 4, 2014The Swiss water economy is not optimally prepared to cope with the forthcoming changes in terms of climate and society. Nevertheless, the National Research Programme "Sustainable Water Management" (NRP 61) concludes that Switzerland will have enough water if regional collaboration is expanded, if sustainable solutions to water conflicts are found and if water protection efforts are continued.

September 19, 2014

September 19, 2014Eawag researcher Dr Tove Larsen will become the new member of the Directorate. She will succeed Professor Hansruedi Siegrist, who will retire at the end of September 2014, as from 1 October 2014.

The processes of river water infiltration and groundwater exfiltration are influenced by high‑ and low-flow conditions (as pictured here on the Thur) and the widening of channelized rivers.

September 9, 2014

September 9, 2014Abundant supplies of safe drinking water are among Switzerland’s most valuable natural resources, with groundwater accounting for 80% of the total. A third of this groundwater, in turn, is fed by infiltrating river water.

Photo: Stephan Müller (head water division at FOEN), Paul Svoboda (head water protection, Basel-Stadt) and the Eawag scientists Matthias Ruff and Heinz Singer (from left).

September 8, 2014

September 8, 2014Today, Monday 8 September, the Canton of Basel-Stadt, the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment and Eawag are somewhat belatedly celebrating the anniversary of the International Rhine Monitoring Station (RMS) in Weil am Rhein.

September 4, 2014

September 4, 2014By retracing the history of fish genomes, researchers are shedding light on universal mechanisms of vertebrate evolution: a study published in Nature shows how a reservoir of mutations, accumulated over a long period, facilitated rapid adaptation and speciation in African cichlids.

Archive News

Janet Hering elected for US Academy of Engineering

Research for the energy turnaround

Alfred Johny Wüest to become a member of the Eawag Directorate

Sampling rivers for genes rather than organisms

Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize for Lisa Scholten

Enough water in the future? Research identifies solutions to potential user conflicts

Tove Larsen will become member of directorate

Keeping rivers clean to protect our drinking water

20 Years of the Weil/Basel Rhine Monitoring Station

A new understanding of evolution