More and more people are moving to cities and agglomerations in Switzerland, which is putting extreme pressure on some wastewater treatment plants: Because they are having to treat greater volumes of wastewater, their energy consumption is skyrocketing.

Eawag has been researching for many years to find alternatives to animal experiments so as to reduce and replace tests on live fish.

Until a few years ago, experts in Switzerland spoke of around 20 species. Now a major project by Eawag, the University of Zurich, the Swiss Centre for the Cartography of the Fauna (CSCF) and the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG) has researched over 40 clearly different species.

A group of geoscientists, among them Andrea Popp from Eawag, collected data for a conference paper to be given at the annual meeting of the EGU (European Geosciences Union).

Eawag researchers have identified the major anthropogenic threats and their chief origins in a review article.

Switzerland is proud of its strongly developed use of hydropower. This covers almost 60% of the country's electricity needs.

After studying biology and biochemistry at the University of Lorraine (Metz, F), Benoît Ferrari worked on the ecotoxicity of solid waste in his dissertation.

13 substances were detected for the first time in groundwater, 15 were found in concentrations above 100 ng/L.