Goal 11 – Sustainable cities and communities

SDG 11 aims to make cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The safe and sustainable utilisation of water and ensuring a secure basic water supply and infrastructure are important issues at Eawag. The following sub-goals are therefore relevant.

United Nations: Sustainable Development Goals

News on Goal 11

June 13, 2024

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Sub-goals

11.1 Enable access to reasonable, safe and affordable living space for all.
11.3 Improve participatory, integrated and sustainable settlement planning and management in all countries.
11.4 Increase efforts to protect and preserve the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
11.5 Protect people in connection with disasters of any kind.
11.6 Reduce the negative per capita environmental impact of cities.
11.A Strengthen national and regional development planning.

Projects

Hydrogeology

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Hydrogeology

Research addresses the pressing regional and increasingly global challenges affecting groundwater and its protection as a natural resource. In addition, strategies are being developed for sustainable water supply in arid/semi-arid areas and megacities.
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Blue Diversion Autarky Project

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Blue Diversion Autarky Project

This project develops modular systems for the treatment of wastewater, urine and faeces in the toilet that do not require an external connection to the drinking water and wastewater network. This separation at the source allows the three streams to be treated according to their specific characteristics, allowing maximum recovery of resources such as nutrients and fresh water.
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REACH: Strategy to secure drinking water supply in Nepal

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REACH: Strategy to secure drinking water supply in Nepal

The REACH project aims to establish a sustainable and robust drinking water monitoring system in conjunction with a risk-based supply strategy for rural Nepal.
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Citizen Science: Knowledge as a weapon in the fight for clean water

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

The project involves local communities in Hwange in western Zimbabwe in collecting data from water samples that showed their local water sources were polluted by coal mining companies.
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NoMix technology

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NoMix technology

This project has developed innovative processes to separate wastewater at the source. One of these technologies is the NoMix toilet, which separates urine and faeces. It is an essential component for sanitation systems that separate urine from the rest of the wastewater.
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River restoration

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River restoration

The project supports sustainable management of river systems and investigates and develops restoration measures. The database is to be improved, for example, by developing methods for cross-project comparisons of restoration measures at the national level.
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Hydropeaking - Synergies between practice and science

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Hydropeaking - Synergies between practice and science

The objective of the project is to reduce problematic impacts in river systems that have reservoirs by monitoring and assessing hydropower installations.
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As the SDGs are closely interlinked and interdependent, this is a non-exhaustive selection of projects.