Noticias sobre Switzerland
Hackers help communities combat effects of dangerous floods at Europe’s biggest hackathon
Team “Res-Queue” wins the Xylem Water Challenge award at HackZurich2021 with a decision support system that helps optimize rescue operations during floods
Increased heat-drought combinations could damage crops globally, says study
Heat and drought events may coincide more often due to climate change, with negative consequences for agriculture, according to a new study.
International government-led coalition calls for urgent action on pumped storage hydropower
‘Get used to blackouts’ or risk reverting to fossil fuels is the warning, unless the world scales up investment in water batteries to support fast-growing solar and wind power.
Urgent need for new approach to combat global grassland degradation
Global grasslands are a source of biodiversity and provide a host of benefits to humans, including food production, water supply, and carbon storage.
Europe experiences warmest year on record in 2020
The latest edition in an annual series of global climate reports shows that Europe experienced its warmest year in 2020 by a considerable amount.
Water ranking in Europe 2020
Europe is a very heterogeneous continent in many ways, and water is no exception.
Water-related hazards dominate disasters in the past 50 years
Water-related hazards dominate the list of disasters in terms of both the human and economic toll over the past 50 years, according to a comprehensive analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Satellites map floods in western Europe
Record rainfall has caused swollen rivers to burst their banks and wash away homes and other buildings in western Europe – leading to more than 90 casualties and over 1000 people missing.
Crowdsourcing water solutions with PUB’s Global Innovation Challenge
Open innovation platform to seek best-in-class solutions that can meet future water needs.
Zero Pollution: Vast majority of Europe’s bathing waters meet the highest quality standards
The annual Bathing Water report published today shows that in 2020, almost 83 % of Europe’s bathing water sites met the European Union’s most stringent ‘excellent’ water quality standards.
Early warning initiative advances in a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated impacts of extreme weather and climate change in vulnerable countries but also highlighted the need to build resilience against a multitude of hazards through better early warnings and risk information.
Flooding might triple in the mountains of Asia
A team of Swiss and international climate scientists has shown that the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayan region and the Tibetan plateau could triple in the coming decades.
3rd cycle Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Water Award attracts participants from across the world
Several first-time participants including Algeria & Kenya, in the latest cycle.
Carbon-neutral “biofuel” from lakes
Lakes store huge amounts of methane.
L’Oréal invests in start-up Gjosa, specialised in water-saving technologies
L’Oréal announces a minority investment in Swiss environmental tech startup Gjosa, made through its corporate venture capital fund BOLD Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development.
Euopean utilities successfully trial multi-parameter sensors
Water network monitoring trials carried out with utilities in France, Switzerland, Germany and the UK are demonstrating the potential of machine learning and artificial intelligence in achieving resilience, explains Steve Willis, chief executive of UK technology company Intellitect.
European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two millennia
Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study.
Diamond–Water Paradox: The View from the Water Castle of Europe
Today, a glass of water – our source of life – comes in Switzerland almost for free whilst a commodity like diamonds which is mainly of aesthetic value costs thousands of Swiss francs on the market.
SUEZ wins biological treatment extension contract for Aïre wastewater treatment plant in Geneva
Industrial Services of Geneva (SIG) entrusts SUEZ Group with the extension contract for the biological treatment through biofiltration for the Aïre wastewater treatment plant in Geneva (Switzerland).
VA Tech Wabag secures contracts worth €100 million
VA Tech Wabag, headquartered in Chennai, announced last week it had won multiple contracts worth approximately 100 million euros (nearly $122 million) from Switzerland, Tunisia and Libya, reports Times of India.