Publication

Water Institutions and Management in Switzerland

Related publications (56)

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

New insights into the acid mediated disproportionation of pentavalent uranyl

Marinella Mazzanti

The reaction of benzoic acid with the uranyl(v) complex [(UO 2Py5)(KI2Py2)] in pyridine leads to immediate disproportionation with formation of a hexanuclear U(iv) benzoate cluster, a bis-benzoate complex of uranyl(vi) and water. © 2010 The Royal Society o ...

2010

Equilibrium desorption isotherms of water, ethanol, ethyl acetate and toluene on a sodium smectite clay

John Christopher Plummer, Pascal Clausen

Desorption isotherms for water, ethanol, ethyl acetate and toluene from a sodium smectite clay have been determined by both dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) measurements and Knudsen thermogravimetry (KTGA), at the exception of toluene that was measured only by ...

Springer Netherlands2009

Water Supply: The cost structure of water utilities in Switzerland

Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust

This paper estimates a translog cost function for Swiss water utilities. From the cost function, we are able to estimate measures of marginal costs as well as economies of production density, customer density and scale, which are important determinants in ...

HEG2009

A system model for water management

André Mermoud, Colin Schenk, Bastien Roquier

Although generally accepted as a necessary step to improve water management and planning, integrated water resources management (IWRM) methodology does not provide a clear definition of what should be integrated. The various water-related issues that IWRM ...

Springer-Verlag2009

Water sector evolution scenarios: the case of Europe

Matthias Finger, Patricia Alves Luis Manso

The purpose of this article is to identify possible scenarios for the evolution of the European water supply and sanitation sectors (WSS) in the next 15 years, on the basis of empirical knowledge of its dynamics. These are: tendered market, tendered market ...

2008

Switch peptide via Staudinger reaction

Hilal Lashuel

A new transformation based on the Staudinger reaction is described, and its application in the design of a novel switch element to control peptide folding is demonstrated. We found that the azide switch is activated rapidly in water to promote acyl transfe ...

2008

Optical Kerr effect studies of the dynamics of confined water

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Erwin Portuondo Campa

Time resolved optical Kerr effect measurements have been used to det. the orientational dynamics of water in the pores of ZrO2 nanostructured films. We demonstrate that local heating effects can safely be ignored and present our results which are manifestl ...

2008

Integrated water resources management

Cherryl André de la Porte

Decreasing water availability per capita in more and more countries is the result of bad management over the past centuries. The 'world water crisis', however, is not inevitable. The concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been promoted ...

EPFL2007

Towards an information system on the water system

André Mermoud, Colin Schenk, Bastien Roquier

Integrated water resources management is generally considered a relevant methodology given the pressing necessity to use water in a sustainable manner. However, its application framework still needs refinements. As a first step towards the creation of such ...

2007

Vers un assainissement urbain durable en Afrique subsaharienne

Halidou Koanda

Justification In Sub-Saharan Africa, excreta and wastewater disposal is characterised primarily by on-site sanitation systems. This sanitation option is more likely to increase as governments, municipalities, communities, private operators and donor agenci ...

EPFL2006