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This year’s World Water Congress took place in Glasgow, Scotland, in early October. Organized every two years by the International Water Association (IWA), the event brings together more than 10,000 experts from over 100 countries.

On September 29, the Lower Austria Science Awards were presented at the House of Digitalization in Tulln. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sophia Steinbacher-Haid was honored with the Science Future Award - which recognizes high-quality scientific theses by academics - for her dissertation titled “Evaluation and Application of Molecular Diagnostic Methods for…

Vienna is internationally recognised as a leading city in the field of drinking water supply: more than two million people are supplied daily with high-quality water, predominantly from Alpine sources. However, climate change, population growth and global changes are presenting even established systems with new challenges. This is precisely where…

Our PhD student Dominik Kugler was awarded the “Best Presentation Award” at the Suez Health and Environment Meeting in Cannes (22‑24 June 2026), selected from among 15 participants. With his presentation on his PhD topic, „Guardians of the nanoverse: A validation roadmap for flow cytometry of nanosized particles”, he impressed not only the entire…

On Friday, June 26, 2026, the celebration event “Danube Research – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” took place in the Marble Hall of the BMLUK to mark the 50th anniversary of the Austrian Committee and the 70^th anniversary of the IAD, the International Association for Danube Research. Several ICC members contributed to the event’s success. Alexander…

As part of the One-Water Podcast series with Ursula Strauß, two further episodes have recently been published online, in which ICC Water & Health researchers discuss fascinating research topics.

In episode 13, Mats Leifels discusses viruses in water, which viruses can be detected in water, the methods used to do so, and whether they pose a risk to…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global problem for human health, accelerated by a variety of potential factors, including climatic and social challenges.