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We are delighted that Claudia Kolm, a long-standing and highly valued member of ICC Water & Health, has been promoted to assistant professor in the Division of Water Quality and Health at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences!

The Joint Danube Survey is the largest river expedition in the world and has been organized every six years since 2001 by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR). A total of 1,000 scientists from 100 organizations in 14 countries took part this summer.

The 5th edition of the world's largest river expedition, the Joint Danube Survey (JDS5), is about to begin. Alexander Kirschner is leading the team that will be investigating the microbiological water quality from Germany to the Danube Delta in Romania.

At the recently held Health Related Water Microbiology Conference (WaterMicro) in Amersfoort in the Netherlands, ICC Water&Health was represented more strongly than ever before. With 25 members, we were the second strongest country group after the organising country, the Netherlands, even ahead of Canada, the USA or China!

In a recent study, we provide for the first time fundamental findings on the spread of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in four river systems in Lower Austria, which are also of international significance. We used a comprehensive, harmonized methodology that enabled a comparison between different rivers.

Anna Pölz is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management and the Research Center Water & Health at TU Wien. Her research focuses on predicting karst spring discharges and water quality using machine learning-based and hybrid models. She is supervised by Assist. Prof. Julia Derx, Prof. Alfred Paul…

The IWA World Water Congress is the key global event of the water sector, organised every two years. This year, the ICC Water & Health was represented by a team of six members. Sophia Steinbacher gave a platform presentation on the impact of ships on the faecal pollution of rivers,, and Ahmad Ameen gave a platform presentation on the co-transport…