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 Austria
 Hans Sailer Takes Well-Earned Retirement
After eleven years as Head of the Vienna Waterworks, Sailer passed the helm to his successor Wolfgang Zerobin (also read page 45) end of June, but will remain in the water business  [more...]



 Two Years of Water Counselling in Salzburg: A Success Story
The Environment Ministry’s water quality check revealed that water from private wells is often of poor quality. Now there is free advice on how to resolve this problem  [more...]



 Safe Drinking Water for Just 79.90 Euros a Year!
Although the majority of Austrians are meanwhile connected to the public water supply system, over one million people still derive their drinking water from private wells.  [more...]



 Aquifer Empty? Fill It Up, Please!
Artificial groundwater recharge is a vital tool that helps water suppliers improve water quality as well as increase water supply, thus keeping the climate change within tolerable limits  [more...]



 Water Supply Must Have Priority!
As conflicts regarding the use of European water bodies grow and climate change is looming large, the presidents of the three waterworks initiatives IAWR (Rhine), RIWA Maas (Meuse) and IAWD (Danube) gathered in Cologne in mid-July to sign a memorandum that gives water supply priority over all other uses.  [more...]



 Drinking Water: Valuable Resource under Threat?
In mid-October, a conference was organised under this theme by the Austrian Umweltdachverband to discuss the current status of water and the perceived and real threats to water supply  [more...]



 Facts & Figures on 'Austrian Water'
The Ministry of Life (BMLFUW) has just released a new booklet in English language which summarises all essential facts about our most precious resource.   [more...]



 Water Know-How with a History
In Vienna, the basic steps for a sustainable water supply were taken already back in 1873. Today, the city has a high-grade system whose development would not have been feasible under modern standards  [more...]



 GRIS: Assuring Top Quality for 25 Years
Güteschutzverband Rohre im Siedlungswasserbau/GRIS (Austrian Quality assurance association for pipes used in municipal water engineering) celebrated its 25th anniversary in Palais Eschenbach in Vienna on 30th March.  [more...]



 Energie AG Scores Again in the Czech Republic
The takeover of the waterworks Kolin was successfully completed by the end of September. The acquisition involved a restructuring of the Energie AG water segment  [more...]



 A Waterworks Acts in terms of the Kyoto Protocol Targets!
The MD 31 has been producer of eco- power for about seventy-five years. The recently started revitalisation of the "Drinking water power station Wien-Mauer" provides even a double advantage  [more...]



 Drinking Water for Tsunami Victims
After the tsunami disaster, water purification was made a top priority. Among the relief teams from abroad, those from Austria could prove their expertise anew.  [more...]



 Vienna Helps Shkodra With Elevated Tank Rehabilitation
While the ADA project Shkodra had focused on the "basics" of water supply, the planned tank rehabilitation project can be considered as a first step toward "normality".  [more...]



 Kossina: No Wheeling and Dealing with Vienna’s Water Supply
Vienna’s Executive City Councillor for the Environment, Isabella Kossina, claims in view of the GATS-negotiations that the sensitive sector of water supply in particular must remain a municipal domain.  [more...]



 Crisis Management in Drinking Water Emergency Supply
The flood of the summer of 2002 caused enormous damage in parts of Austria, which also affected drinking water supply. In the field of urban water management flooding of water supply facilities, contamination of water extraction, damage of pipelines and breakdowns of power supply were registered.  [more...]



 Is Water Supply Safe in the Whole Area?
The summer of the year 1992 and spring of 1993 are, especially in the southern and eastern parts of Styria, still an unpleasant memory due to the lack of rainfall. In the second half of the year 2001 there was an exceptionally long waterless period that has not occurred for decades. Such a situation raises the question: Is the (public) water supply safe in all of Styria?   [more...]



 Kleehaeufel Waterworks Improves the Water Supply System
Vienna Waterworks plans to construct a new waterwork to ensure the supply of high-quality drinking water under all circumstances, including failures or extensive repair work on either of the two spring water mains, or times of extremely increased demand.  [more...]



 More Interesting Facts about Vienna´s Water Supply
Supplying a modern capital with excellent drinking water needs a lot more than simply laying high-performance transport pipelines.   [more...]



 Groundwater Resources in Austria
Austria is among the countries with the mightiest water reserves in Europe. Resources amount to more than 80 billion cubic meters of groundwater and 10 billion cubic meters of soil water.  [more...]



 Surface Unsealing
Surface unsealing provides for local and expansive stormwater percolation and contributes to groundwater new formation.  [more...]



 Water Management - Problems And Methods
Sustainable development is a word that is today certainly the most exploited in the world and practically all researchers of natural systems dealing with their protection, the same as physical planners are positioning their activities in framework of that famous concept. Yet, what does this concept really mean? Simply said, maximum use of environment with simultaneous conservation of natural resources. Very simply to say, but extremely difficult to achieve, because it requires an exceptional knowledge of natural resources at one side and skill and knowledge of physical planners who have to optimise effects of human activities from the other.  [more...]



 New Ways in Water Supply
Outsourcing, mergers and concentration, these are the new "cures" against empty communal tills. This is associated with a profound change in supply structures.   [more...]



 The Future of Vienna’s Water Supply
In case of inspections of one of the two mountain spring mains, another supply resource must be provided to substitute the suspended output. For this reason – and as the 3rd pillar of the city´s water supply –, the Vienna Waterworks are planning to establish two waterworks whose joint performance will correspond to the output of one of the spring water main.  [more...]



 Where Does Vienna's Drinking Water Come From?
Vienna finds itself in the unique situation of obtaining its drinking water almost entirely from mountain springs; only a small portion is covered by bank-filtration waterworks. Vienna’s water originates in the Lower Austrian-Styrian high alpine zones.   [more...]




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