Noticias sobre Switzerland
Indirect effects of climate change adaptations on alpine and pre‐alpine freshwater systems
When thermometers in California recorded scorching temperatures in the summer of 2000, even the salmon in Klamath River felt the effects.
Amane Advisors mergers with A. Vaccani & Partners AG
Amane Advisors, the premier global strategic advisory firm focused on the water industry, has merged with A.
Zero pollution: large number of Europe’s bathing waters meet highest quality standards
The annual Bathing Water report, published today, shows that in 2021 almost 85% of Europe's bathing water sites met the European Union's most stringent ‘excellent' water quality standards.
Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unraveled
For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet.
“The SEA4VALUE process is being designed to be easily implemented in any existing desalination”
At the end of April, we spoke with María Teresa López, Project Manager at the European Science Communication Institute (ESCI), to find out a bit more about the ambitious and innovative European project SEA4VALUE.
“A secondary effect of applying Sea4Value findings is an increase in desalination efficiencies”
In 2019, in an UN-backed report, experts warned of rising levels of toxic brine as a result of a growing number of seawater desalination plants being built around the world to meet growing water needs.
New taskforce aims to protect biodiversity with harmonized freshwater macroinvertebrate sampling
Lakes, rivers, streams, ponds and other freshwater ecosystems are a key resource for human societies.
Service de l’Eau starts pilot project with NX Filtration
Service de l’Eau – Ville de Lausanne starts pilot with NX Filtration to remove Chlorothalonil in Switzerland.
Swiss rivers on track to overheat by the end of the century
According to an EPFL study, if we take immediate measures to reduce CO2 emissions, we could limit the rise in the temperature of Swiss rivers to 1 degree Celsius between now and 2090 without drastically affecting their discharge.
Co-occurring droughts could threaten global food security
Droughts occurring at the same time across different regions of the planet could place an unprecedented strain on the global agricultural system and threaten the water security of millions of people, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change.
The state of marine and waterway protection
With insights from Filip Stefanovic, regional general manager of Bolina.
Extreme weather in Europe costs around half a trillion euros over past 40 years
Extreme weather events like storms, heatwaves and flooding accounted for economic losses of around half a trillion euros over the past 40 years and led to between 85 000 and 145 000 human fatalities across Europe.
Plastic snowfall in the Alps
In a new study, Empa researcher Dominik Brunner, together with colleagues from Utrecht University and the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, is investigating how much plastic is trickling down on us from the atmosphere.
A dozen things that helped and hurt climate progress in 2021
2021 may turn out to be the most critical year in our efforts to combat climate change.
Switzerland makes contribution to help drought in Madagascar
Switzerland is making an additional contribution of CHF 900,000 (US$ 928,000) to help deal with the serious food crisis in Madagascar.
Consortium led by Veolia to build a new drinking water plant in Lausanne
Thanks to a combination of advanced technologies unique in Europe, the plant will produce water that exceeds regulatory requirements.
Clean TeQ Water launches new phosphate removal and recovery technology
Clean TeQ Water launches its new PHOSPHIX™ technology, which selectively removes phosphate from water and recovers a solid phosphorus product that is suitable for reuse.
EU and IFRC support people affected by the water crisis and drought in Syria
In response to the severe water crisis and drought in Syria, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has released 748,000 CHF (709,000 EUR) from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund.
Climate change risks ‘runaway’ humanitarian crisis, aid system collapse, UN warns
By Megan Rowling. Aid agencies say the needs of those hit by droughts and floods are surging and could spiral out of control, calling for more money to help the vulnerable adapt to a warmer world.
Fossil rivers of the Sahara tell of the threat of warming
A UNIGE-led team has studied the fossil rivers of the Egyptian Sahara to reconstruct the region’s rainfall rates that led to a major migration of people away from the Nile valley 10,000 years ago.