As the year comes to an end, we have successfully concluded the project "Up-to-date Approaches for Managing #Wastewater Discharges from Industrial Clusters into Municipal WWTPs to safeguard Human Health and the Environment – Phase II" . Full report (in German): www.bmluk.gv.at/service/publ... 1/6

ÖWAV #Februarseminar on 24./25.2.2026 at @tuwien.at! We are delighted to present an engaging programme designed & coordinated by Joerg Krampe on the technical, legal and operational challenges of treating #industrial #wastewater. Full Programme & Registration: www.oewav.at/Kurse-Semina... 1/3

"The toilet is a mundane marvel. And access to one is a matter of rights, and survival." - UN, 2025. Happy World Toilet Day! Let's make sure that access to sanitation remains a global priority. #worldtoiletday #sanitation #toilet 1/2

We’re excited to welcome Alessia Torboli to our team as a guest PhD student! Alessia is a double graduate in #EnvironmentalEngineering from the Università di Trento (Italy) and the University of Cincinnati (USA). She is currently pursuing her #PhD at UniTrento C3A, where she focuses on ... 1/4

🎉 Work anniversary 🎉 Congrats, Zdravka Saracevic, on 25 years of reliable, high-throughput chemical analyses & indefatigable support for research and teaching activities in the lab! You´ve always been a fundamental pillar of our team, & this formal celebration of your anniversary is well deserved!

The 2025 edition of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems' Annual Symposium was once again an inspiring and outstanding event! #doctoral #programme #symposium #interdisciplinary #waterresources #phd 1/4

A new guest in our team! Abir MELLITI, Ph.D joins us for a 3-month research internship, bringing a strong background in environmental chemistry and water treatment technologies. Welcome to the team, Abir! 💧 1/3

🎉We have a new doctor among us 🎉 Our dear colleague Steffen Kittlaus successfully defended his #PhD #thesis "Quantification of Trace Contaminant Emissions on the #RiverBasin Scale", which was supervised by Matthias Zessner and Ottavia Zoboli. #rigorosum #defense #waterquality #micropollutants 1/3

This week, we had the great pleasure & honour of welcoming a high-ranking delegation from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences 🇨🇳 They toured our labs and joined us for inspiring discussions on shared research priorities. 🌍💧 #science #collaboration #environment #waterresearch 1/2

Last week we had the chance to present our latest research on the potential of #river #bank #filtration for water supply in Austria (“Ufer-Los”). 1/3

A #podcast tip on Ö1 (in German): Norbert Kreuzinger discusses the presence of #pharmaceutical residues in #water systems, their impact on #aquatic #organisms, and what we still largely don't know about the 'cocktail effects' of their mixture in the environment. 1/2 oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

With the start of the academic winter term, we are pleased to announce the beginning of our new #waterquality management #seminar #series. The series is part of the civil and environmental engineering curriculum, but it is #open to #everyone as a #forum for exchange and discussion. 1/4

Our team kicked off the week by hosting not 1 but 2 international #workshops! The #DWAl expert group KA 6.1: #Microbiology in #wastewater treatment”, of which Norbert Kreuzinger is a member, met w/ the main objective of jointly developing a report to consolidate knowledge of the microbiol... 1/3

🎉 Congrats to Lara Anna Vrečar! At grabenlos.2025 – the conference on trenchless technologies – Lara was honoured with the Youth #Award 2025 for her pitch on #trenchless #sewer #rehabilitation. We celebrated it together at the #conference dinner, ... 1/2

Our colleague Liad Weisz recently took part in the 11th #IWA #Membrane Technology #Conference in Daegu, South Korea, where he gave a talk focusing on a possible #quaternary treatment technique - combining Forward #Osmosis with Retentate #Ozonation. 📸 Pere Olives Cegarra 1/3

Emissions of the #greenhouse gas #nitrousoxide #N₂O strongly shape the carbon footprint of the #wastewater sector 🌍💨 The new paper by Ali Valipoor et al. reviews treatment #technologies for emission #abatement, focusing on biological systems like #bioscrubbers. iwaponline.com/wst/article/... 1/3

On 4 September, Vanessa Parravicini was invited to present our team's research on N₂O #bioscrubbing at #wastewater treatment plants within the #IWA #ClimateSmartUtilities Initiative, GHG Sub-Group. 1/4

New insights into #wastewater #surveillance from a 1-year survey of the untreated influent at the Bucharest WWTP and an infectious diseases hospital. Check out the full details in the latest publication by Elena Radu et al.: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/2

The production, use & disposal of #textiles is a major source of #PFAS emissions into the environment. A new study by Iva Ćurić et al. tested hybrid #ultrafiltration (UF) + #reverseosmosis (RO) for PFAS removal from real textile #wastewater 👇 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

Great news, congratulations! We had the pleasure of contributing to Chapter 4 "Water quality of the Danube River and the Black Sea", coordinated by @mzessner.bsky.social, and we look forward to also holding the whole book in our hands. #waterquality #Danube #river

There are many types of diversity. Today we asked ourselves: how diverse is our team in terms of country of origin? The country in which we grew up profoundly shaped our view of the world, how we relate to others, our priorities, our sense of humour, what we eat and drink, and so much more. 1/2

Over the past years, we´ve seen our #interdisciplinar #team become more & more diverse in terms of #academic #background w/ each new #research project. But we had not realised quite how much until we started counting. Impressive, isn't it? In a rapidly changing world, protecting #water ... 1/2

Thrilled 2 share that our colleagues @4heilig.bsky.social & Gabriela Eder contributed 2 the recently published #openAccess article led by Matthew Thornton from @bergthalerlab.bsky.social‬ (@meduniwien.ac.at) in #WaterResearch (@iwapublishing.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

Our colleague Meiqi Liu just published the 1st paper of her #PhD. It's a very interesting piece of research from the #PROMISCES project for anyone curious about sources and emission pathways of #PFAS in the Upper #Danube and, more in general, in large #river basins. doi.org/10.1186/s123... 1/4

This year, we once again took part at #Kinderuni and introduced the young students to the exciting world of #wastewatertreatment. We enjoyed giving an insight into our daily scientific work and hope to have inspired many children for this topic. @boehler-s.bsky.social @moritzpellegrini.bsky.social

Check out our new #OpenAccess paper by Steffen Kittlaus et al., which explores the dynamics of potentially toxic elements in small rivers.💧 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #heavymetals #tracemetals #elements #waterquality #erosion #enrichment #sediment #suspendedsolids #river #emissions 1/4

The 1st Austrian #PFAS Day, organised by the PFAS Expert Committee of #ÖWAV led by @mzessner.bsky.social, was a resounding success: 🙋🏻‍280 participants from a variety of professional backgrounds demonstrate the significant interest & need for information exchange and cross-sectoral collaboration. 1/4

🔄️1st LCA–Symposium @tuwien.at: we were there! Life Cycle Assessment #LCA is an increasingly integral component in sustainability research, offering a standardized, comprehensive method for evaluating environmental impacts of products or services through comprehensive & holistic investigations. 1/3

Last week, water quality experts from 9 EU & non-EU Danube countries gathered at @tuwien.at for a 2day workshop on the pathway-oriented emission model #MoRE. 1/3

This year's team outing saw us strolling through the streets of Bratislava. It was a great chance to get to know our neighbouring city and each other better.

Our team just got stronger! We had the great pleasure of collaborating w/ Thomas Oudega over the past few years in the EU project PROMISCES & the @wwtf.at -funded project FATERISK Aqua, while he was working at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at @tuwien.at. 1/2

This week, our students were taken on an #excursion by N. Kreuzinger and visited sites guaranteeing & safeguarding 🚰 #drinkingwater supply in AT: ➡️construction site of a drinking water storage facility ➡️water works w/ activated carbon filtration ➡️water treatment plant based on reverse osmosis 1/2

Joerg Krampe had the great pleasure of delivering a #workshop on the optimisation of #wastewatertreatment plants and on present and future challenges at the Domžale-Kamnik Central Wastewater Treatment Plant (ccn-domzale.si/index.php/en...) in Slovenia. Photo credits: Miša Hrovat 1/2

We are delighted to announce that the Austrian Technical Association for the Gas and Water Industry #ÖVGW awarded two #environmental #engineering students, who were supervised by our team, the #prize for the best Master's #theses in the water field. Photo credits: ÖVGW 1/3

Another fully booked and successful #water resource management #excursion! Thirty students, accompanied by the excursion leaders @mzessner.bsky.social and Julia Derx, showed high motivation by joining the two-day trip on Friday and Saturday, and were rewarded with a very varied programme... 1/3

Have you ever presented your research in a place as unconventional as a #pub? “Sure!” Heidi Schaar and Helmut Rechberger will answer. During this years Pint of Science Austria festival, Heidi Schaar explained to the general audience that we are all “Flushing for Future” and ... #PintOfScience 1/3

We are pleased to introduce our newest doctoral candidate, Ali Valipoor, who joins the group led by Norbert Kreuzinger. Over the past few months we have hosted Ali as an Erasmus student at our institute, where he has been working on his Master's thesis titled ... 1/3

The #EGU2025 started yesterday & we're joining w/ 3 contributions: ➡️ Mo: Meiqi Liu will present the work on "Modelling PFAS Emission and Transport at Large-Catchment Scale with a Regionalised Approach" from the PROMISCES project - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... www.egu25.eu 1/3

The icy wind that brought back winter temperatures to Vienna yesterday did not stop our brave #relay team from completing the Vienna City Marathon succesfully in less than 3 h 45 min! #vcm #marathon 1/2

This week, we had the pleasure and honour of hosting the 102nd meeting of the #DWA Expert Group KA8, which focused on the processes and technologies for the #advanced #wastewater treatment after biological treatment, and of which our colleague Norbert Kreuzinger is a member. 1/3

The #PROMISCES project is coming to an end and it's time to start reflecting on its many and varied final results. A great occasion for it was the NICOLE & PROMISCES Joint Spring Workshop 2025 held this week in Frankfurt. 1/3

Environmental Engineering at #WienKanal: In the Master’s program course „Sewer Rehabilitation“, students had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience today. One group ventured into the sewer. You have to experience this live, but here’s at least a photo impression before going down. 1/2

Joerg Krampe and Nikolaus Weber are having a great time at #EssenerTagung 2025, one of the most important annual events for the German-speaking community of water professionals! Earlier today, Nikolaus presented insights from the StraMoS project ... 🔗 dafne.at/projekte/str... 1/2

Thrilled to welcome Berna de Vries to our group #MolecularMicrobiology in #SanitaryEngineering! Berna joins us from the #FWF Cluster of Excellence #Microplanet. At our institute, she will continue her #PhD research within WP5.1 - #WastewaterMicrobiomes for Next-Gen #PublicHealth Monitoring... 1/3

Our dear colleague Norbert Kreuzinger has been honoured w/ the #Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (Silbernes #Ehrenzeichen) by Elmar Pichl, Dir. Gen. of #BMBWF. This highly prestigious national decoration rightly recognises the important & pioneering role... 1/6

We have two new team members: Kilian Deinhammer and Kara Kobsic! Kilian graduated in #EnvironmentalEngineering & will be working primarily on #riverbank filtration & #water #treatment processes, w/ a focus on #contaminants of emerging concern. 1/3

It was great! We truly enjoyed hosting the #Februarseminar 2025 at @tuwien.bsky.social & look back with satisfaction at the inspiring two-day marathon of talks & networking. Many thanks to Jörg Krampe for his efforts in coordinating & putting together an excellent programme, to the #ÖWAV team... 1/2

End of February… time for the #Februarseminar, an event co-organised by #ÖWAV & our institute under the lead of Jörg Krampe - a traditional central appointment for the #wastewater treatment sector in Austria. The 2025 edition is dedicated to the implementation of the revised #UWWTD. #KARL 1/3

The #ÖWAV advanced course 4 #wastewater treatment plant #operators started yesterday at Science Center, Arsenal. Until Friday, our team will train 56 participants through lectures, discussions, exercises & demonstrations. It´ll be an intensive & hopefully very rewarding week 4 all. #fortbildungskurs

🔬 This week, we have been diving deep into the world of #wastewater microscopy! At our yearly #microscopy course, #wastewatertreatmentplant operators learn how to analyse #sludge under the microscope, identify key microorganisms, and detect early signs of #bulking and other process issues. 1/2