SOWA: Integrated soil and water protection: risks from diffuse pollution

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0030

Key words (English)

Environmental Protection; Waste Management

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: EVK1-CT-2002-80022

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.4a.1 Sustainable management and quality of water

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
ETH Zürich
Institut für Terrestrische Ökosysteme
ETH Zentrum CHN F 31.1

Abstract (English)

Soil and water protection is an important and widely recognised issue in European environmental research. In the hydrological cycle, water sooner or later interacts with soil and/or sediments, which can function as source or sink of pollutants and this determines the quality of groundwater, surface waters and finally drinking water. Soil has to be recognised as a complex interactive key zone between land surface and groundwater. SOWA will establish an interdisciplinary forum, which integrates soil and water protection issues and provides a platform for scientists, regulators, policy makers, and industry. SOWA will identify and prioritise demand-driven research-needs and provide the base for integrated soil/water research activities in the future. It aims to contribute and to complement existing EU-networks.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 03.0030