cewas will be officially inaugurated in Willisau, close to Lucerne (Switzerland), on 18 of May 2011. The centre aims to combine advanced education and support to start up a business. It builds up SMEs that can offer expertise in the field of sustainable sanitation and integrated water management...

UNC Annual Conference and networking and learning week and launch of the Water Institute at UNC October 25 and 26, 2010 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA Water and Health:  Where Science Meets Policy will bring together experts from academia, industry,...

Going green is not only a mantra but also a practice on the 16-acre campus of ACTS Academy of Higher Education in Bangalore. The success story of using renewable energy for lighting the campus is now paving the way for Australian schools to go green. A theological institute, the ACTS Academy...

(to be published in Feb. 2010) In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems are hardly functioning or have a very low coverage, resulting in large scale water pollution and the use of very poor quality water for crop irrigation especially in the vicinity of urban centres. This can...

At this year's Ecological Engineering conference in Paris (EECA, see Ecological Engineering conference in Paris ), IEES will be the host of a workshop on "Benefits of Ecological Engineering Practices". The workshop will take place on Dec. 3, 2009, from 14:50 CET to 17:15. Download program (PDF, 26...

At Frutigen, Switzerland, a new tropical house opens its doors on November 21, 2009. The facility is running on warm water (100 Liters per second) flowing out of the Lötschberg Base Railway Tunnel. This heat energy is used for the cultivation of fish and a variety of tropical fruit. See...

The Swiss Novaquatis project, focussing on research and development on the concept of NoMix toilets (urine separating toilets) won the award "td-net for transdisciplinary research" 2008 from the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences – carrying a prize of CHF 75,000. EAWAG writes: "The award is made...

Schumacher College, in its own words, "offers transformative learning for sustainable living. Courses at the College aim to empower and equip people who wish to make changes to the world situation they see developing around them." The new programme for the period from Sep. 2008 to April 2009...

BBC reported about a successfull fish farming project in Malawi - one of the poorest countries in Africa.  The project combines Tilapia and Catfish farming in rain-fed ponds with raising chicken and goat crop farming (e.g., maize), thus recycling the nutrients very efficiently. A nice example for...