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ICC Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health

The Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health is a cooperation of the TU Wien, the Medical University of Vienna (MedUni) and the Karl Landsteiner Private University for Health Sciences.

Our goal is to advance the scientific understanding of water quality and its impact on public health to ensure safe and sustainable water resources for future generations.

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News from the ICC Water and Health

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…