Universität Wien
Universität Wien is a university that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
Treated wastewater and sludge introduce tire additives into leafy vegetables, study finds
The presence of drug residues in commercially sold fruit and vegetables has already been scientifically investigated many times. However, chemical substances from tire wear, so-called additives, also find their way into the food chain. This has now been shown in a new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Science by an international research team led […]
Giant virus discovered in wastewater treatment plant infects deadly parasite
The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna, in an international collaboration, have discovered viruses that infect this harmful microbe. Named Naegleriavirus, these belong to the giant viruses, a group known for […]
Artificial sweetener as wastewater tracer
New study by the University of Vienna shows what the sweetener acesulfame reveals about groundwater flows.
Nano-sponges with potential for rapid wastewater treatment
Composite material of COF and graphene shows high and rapid adsorption capacity for organic pollutants.