As in 2023, the symposium organised by the partnership AGES - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety with the Inter-University Cooperation Centre Water and Health (ICC W&H) is once again under the patronage of the ÖGHMP.

On 5 June 2025, we will be devoting ourselves entirely to the topic of Water Quality & One Health.

Increasingly frequent droughts and flooding caused by the climate crisis can pose a challenge to water quality and thus to the health of humans, animals and plants, as can pathogens and pollutants.

In order to overcome these challenges, the development of innovative concepts, new physico-chemical, microbiological and molecular biological methods as well as numerical models for the investigation and assessment of water quality from a hygienic point of view is required.

Contents

• Bacteriophages as a versatile tool in the environment and medicine
• Effects of the climate crisis on the water cycle and water quality
• Pathogens: diagnostics and risk assessment
• Chemical pollutants: analysis and risk assessment
• Research into the causes of faecal contamination in drinking water resources/systems
• Wastewater: hazard, resource and source of information

Target group

• Relevant institutes / university institutes / research institutes
• Ministries (BMG, BMK, BML,... )
• Authorities (food safety authorities, bathing technology)
• Public health officers
• Testing centres and experts
• Water suppliers
• Relevant industry (water treatment)
• AGES employees
• ÖGHMP members (secretariat)
• ÖVGW
• ÖWAV
• UBA
• City Court of Auditors
• Technopol ecoplus Lower Austria (ONE Water) Harald Leiter

Language: German

German

Registration information

Please registerat by 22.05.2025 at the latest.

Limited number of participants!

This event will be organised as a face-to-face event.

Organised by the partnership

AGES - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety	&	Inter-University Cooperation Centre Water and Health (ICC W&H)

Supported by

More information

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