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Eawag is one of the world’s leading aquatic research institutes. With its professional diversity, close partnerships with practitioners and an international network, Eawag offers an excellent environment for the study of water as a habitat and resource, for identifying problems at an early stage and for developing widely accepted solutions.

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Joanna Houska at the award ceremony with Prof. Thomas Ternes, at the Annual Meeting of the German Water Chemistry Society in Limburg (photo: Nina Hermes, BfG).

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Prize-winning thesis: oxidation done properly!

July 17, 2024

Environmental chemist Joanna Houska has received an award for her doctoral thesis from the German Water Chemistry Society. She conducted her research at Eawag and EPFL, demonstrating both theoretically and experimentally how oxidative water treatment using ozone or chlorine can be more efficiently utilized when there is a precise understanding of the organic substances dissolved in the water to be treated.

The implementation of measures to protect biodiversity is lagging behind the targets – which makes it all the more important to plan revitalisation measures as optimally and purposefully as possible, like here on the River Emme near Utzenstorf (Photo: Luftaufnahmen Röthlisberger).

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A list of priorities for the protection of ...

July 9, 2024

Biodiversity is dwindling rapidly, while measures to protect it are lagging behind the targets. Only one thing can help: utilising scarce resources as efficiently as possible where they are most effective. The “Lanat-3” research project lays the foundation for this with the help of the latest data and AI-supported models.

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Pesticides in water bodies - there is still work ...

July 9, 2024

The VSA Water Quality Platform and Eawag have analysed the effects to date of the measures taken under the "Action Plan for Risk Reduction and Sustainable Use of Pesticides" on water quality. The number of limit value exceedances has decreased significantly since 2019. Nevertheless, many kilometres of rivers and streams are still contaminated. Pyrethroids pose a particularly high risk to watercourses.

Publication

Presenting the new Eawag publication: Changes in ...

July 2, 2024

As the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, our research is in the service of society. Discover this for yourself in the new publication.

Our soil consists of several layers. It is porous and loose near the surface, but compact like concrete at depth. Pictured: soil from the boreholes for the necessary groundwater pumps (Photo: Eawag, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez).

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Impact of high-temperature heat storage on ...

June 13, 2024

An Eawag project is investigating how borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) affects the surrounding soil, the groundwater and the microorganisms living in it.

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03.09.2024

Info Day

Info Day Special 2024: Identifying, preserving and promoting blue-green biodiversity

9.00 am

Dübendorf, AKADEMIE, Empa-Eawag Campus

14.09.2024

Open day

10.00 am

Dübendorf, Empa-Eawag Campus

22. - 24.09.2024

Practice-oriented course various

D-A-CH-Fachtagung Aqua Urbanica

9.00 am

Graz (A)

New Publication

The publication Changes in Water illustrates how Eawag contributes to the developments of solutions in the areas of health, cycles, biodiversity and the climate crisis through teaching, consulting, excellent basic research and applied research. You can now view the publication online or order your personal copy.

we are investigating the basis for clean drinking water and sustainable management of drinking water resources.

we are investigating how to optimise wastewater infrastructures and overcome new challenges.

our research contributes to understanding and conserving aquatic biodiversity.

we are investigating biotic communities and their habitats in order to conserve ecosystem services for us humans.

we are investigating the effect of chemical substances on the environment and developing methods to remove them from drinking water, wastewater and bodies of water.