Groundwater Protection and Its Challenges in Switzerland: NGWA International Brown Bag Series
Groundwater Protection and Its Challenges in Switzerland: NGWA International Brown Bag Series
Presented on Monday, December 11, 2017
You'll receive an overview on the main challenges with respect to groundwater management and protection in Switzerland — settlement pressure, river restoration, diffuse groundwater pollution, and climate change — during this online presentation.
Switzerland is rich in groundwater resources. Eighty percent of the total drinking water is extracted from groundwater, including springs. The pressure on the groundwater has significantly increased in recent years due to urban and rural development, new infrastructure of national importance, new legal requirements regarding flood management and river revitalization, and climate change.
Several approaches to overcome these challenges will be presented such as integrated water management, pollution prevention at the source, awareness campaigns, etc. In addition, selected examples will be given.
Speaker:
Martin Rauber, Ph.D.
EBP Schweiz AG, Zollikon, Switzerland
EBP Schweiz AG, Zollikon, Switzerland
Martin Rauber, Ph.D., is an environmental engineer, whose degree is in the field of modeling contaminant transport in heterogeneous aquifers. He has had his own consulting business for almost a decade and has been working in several engineering companies. In his current position as a senior project manager at EBP, Rauber has the opportunity to pursue his strong interest in interdisciplinary cooperation. His consulting activities focus on the design and implementation of water infrastructure, integrated (urban) water management, climate change impact assessment and adaptation, and hydroinformatics. In the last decade, he has mainly worked on projects abroad, namely in the Balkans, North Africa, Central Asia, and South East Asia. He is currently involved as a water expert in the Bregalnica River Basin Management Project in Macedonia, the Jinsha River Basin Project in China, and the Integrated Urban Water Management Project in Morocco. Apart from his consulting work, Rauber is leading the internal research project on developing a “quick scan” methodology for assessing the current state of urban water management.
