Noticias sobre Switzerland
Endress+Hauser develops hygiene and wastewater test system
Together with the FHNW School of Life Sciences in Muttenz, Switzerland, and EnviroChemie, a plant engineering company, Endress+Hauser has developed and installed two test platforms in the university’s Process Technology Center (PTC).
Microplastic drifting down with the snow
Over the past several years, microplastic particles have repeatedly been detected in seawater, drinking water, and even in animals.
Low water in the Rhine a blow to Germany’s economy
From its source in Switzerland, flowing through Germany and the Netherlands into the North Sea, the Rhine River is a major transport route, especially important for raw materials and goods from coal and iron ore to chemicals, fertilizers and car parts.
A new heatwave hits Europe
For the second time in less than one month, a widespread and intense heatwave impacted Europe, with many new maximum and minimum temperature records, disruption to transport and infrastructure and stress on people's health and the environment.
A new technique to concentrate a fertilizer produced from wastewater
Two EPFL Master’s in Environmental Engineering students have developed a novel method for recovering nitrogen from wastewater. For their semester project, they adapted a system typically used to concentrate fruit juice and tested it out at the Yverdon-les-Bains wastewater treatment plant in Vaud.
Scientists map high-risk areas for water borne Hepatitis E
A team of scientists from EPFL has compiled environmental and epidemiological data from around the world to develop a map that shows the riskiest areas for Hepatitis E outbreaks. Their work, published in Scientific Reports, opens the way to new avenues of research and prevention.
Voith to replace Ritom pumped storage plant, Switzerland
Voith recently received an extensive order for the Ritom pumped storage power plant in Switzerland.
Temperature records fall in European heatwave
An unusually early and exceptionally intense heatwave has set new temperature records in Europe and ensuring that the month of June was the hottest on record for the continent, with the average temperature 2° Celsius above normal.
Researchers lay out plan for managing rivers to be resilient to climate change
New strategies for river management are needed to maintain water supplies and avoid big crashes in populations of aquatic life, researchers argue in a perspective piece published in Nature.
Researcher documents cascading effects of parasites on underwater ecosystems
Research by an evolutionary biologist from Florida State University has shown parasites have important and far-reaching effects on predatory fish and the ecosystems they inhabit.
Our water cycle diagrams give a false sense of water security
Pictures of the earth’s water cycle used in education and research throughout the world are in urgent need of updating to show the effects of human interference, according to new analysis by an international team of hydrology experts.
Over 85% of European bathing sites rated as excellent for water quality
Just over 85% of bathing water sites across Europe monitored last year met the European Union’s highest ‘excellent’ and most stringent quality standards for water cleanliness, according to the latest annual European bathing water quality report.
BlueTech names 15 water technologies to watch
The Innovation Showcase at BlueTech Forum 2019 will feature more companies than ever before.
EU grants €7M to strengthen water security in Central Asia
The European Union and the World Bank signed an agreement for a new €7 million grant to support water and energy security in Central Asia.
Green infrastructure nature’s best defence against disasters
Member States and the private sector should increase investments in ecosystem restoration and protection, particularly water-related ecosystems, to reduce the disaster risk and impacts of climate change.
IFC, SECO partner to address water scarcity in South Africa
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group and Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), has launched a program aimed at addressing water scarcity in South Africa’s agribusiness sector.
Turning wastewater sludge into energy and mineral salts
A system developed by EPFL spin-off TreaTech can turn sludge from wastewater treatment plants into mineral salts – which could be used in fertilizer, for example – and biogas.
Scientists developing technology for water purification by electric discharges
The environment around us is becoming increasingly polluted.
More than 90% of glacier volume in the Alps could be lost by 2100
New research on how glaciers in the European Alps will fare under a warming climate has come up with concerning results.
World Water Development Report 2019: ‘Leaving no one behind’
Access to water and sanitation is internationally recognized human right.