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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global problem for human health, accelerated by a variety of potential factors, including climatic and social challenges.

There is general consensus that action is needed at critical control points to reduce AMR, but also that activities within a single area of the One Health concept (human, animal or…

Methods for faster monitoring of the water quality of drinking water and drinking water resources are increasingly being incorporated into water management practice. In an EU-funded research project, the applicability of automated flow cytometry for near-real-time quantification of bacterial cells for operational monitoring of alpine drinking water…

From 23 to 26 November 2025, the 29th International Danube Shipping & Tourism Conference took place in Straubing (Bavaria). Andreas Farnleitner was invited by the organisers to give a presentation on the importance of proper wastewater disposal in Danube shipping for the water quality of the Danube.

We are delighted that Claudia Kolm, a long-standing and highly valued member of ICC Water & Health, has been promoted to assistant professor in the Division of Water Quality and Health at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences!

The Joint Danube Survey is the largest river expedition in the world and has been organized every six years since 2001 by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR). A total of 1,000 scientists from 100 organizations in 14 countries took part this summer.

The 5th edition of the world's largest river expedition, the Joint Danube Survey (JDS5), is about to begin. Alexander Kirschner is leading the team that will be investigating the microbiological water quality from Germany to the Danube Delta in Romania.

At the recently held Health Related Water Microbiology Conference (WaterMicro) in Amersfoort in the Netherlands, ICC Water&Health was represented more strongly than ever before. With 25 members, we were the second strongest country group after the organising country, the Netherlands, even ahead of Canada, the USA or China!