Vuna News

Together with Ingenitec GmbH – Metall- und Anlagenbau, we installed two new toilets from SANISPHERE and ECODOMEO, as well as the two toilets from the old hut.

Circular Economy Switzerland, in collaboration with VaLoo, invites you to a visit to the new housing cooperative La Bistoquette and its decentralized wastewater treatment system.

Watch the video here: https://video.toponline.ch/medien/EinzelneBeitraege/2026XXXX_news_Urin-Dnger.mp4

The team visited a Vuna project that was planned and implemented seven years ago.

Come in large numbers to the Fess'tival to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the RAE Réseau de l'Assainissement Ecologique on May 7th, 8th and 9th in Ramonville, near Toulouse.

The debate surrounding centralized versus local wastewater solutions is not a matter of ideology – rather, it's about how both systems can best work together. On March 18, 2026, at the Eventforum Bern, the VSA invites experts and decision-makers to explore key questions for the future of wastewater management.

It was a great moment to discover and celebrate circular wastewater disposal on a new scale: around 100 apartments, shops and a server park connected with systems for recovering water, nutrients and heat.

An opportunity to learn more about the latest developments in resource-oriented sanitation systems. In the course on January 20, 2026, we will present new technologies, methods, and guidelines together with Eawag and VaLoo.

Now the Winteregghütte of the SAC section Biel is also up to date in terms of toilets & wastewater.

The analysis shows where and how water can be saved and recycled.

Just as winter began, we were able to install the SANISPHERE toilets at the Hochlandhütte of the German Alpine Club.

We are pleased to be able to contribute the chapter "Water & Wastewater in Mountain Huts" to the book project with the publisher Hochparterre.

Documentary film “Holy Shit” by Rubén Abruña on November 6th at the Rex cinema in Pfäffikon ZH.

The team from ETH Zurich, Eawag and Vuna has collected an initial series of wastewater samples and moved all sampling equipment to the next location.

The Chamanna Cluozza, one of our heart projects, has been nominated for the Prix Montagne by the Swiss Mountain Aid and the Swiss Working Group for Mountain Regions.

A detailed report by Bulgarian television about water and sanitation solutions for mountain huts in Bulgaria and Switzerland

When visiting the facility in Emmental, you will be enchanted by the panorama, the busy worm population on the worm filter, the lush plant growth on our plant filter and the crystal-clear effluent sample.

Listen to the entire podcast with Olivier Chaloche, Fabien Esculier and Florent Brun on France Culture.

We congratulate Helena Horber on completing her BSc at the ZHAW Institute of Environment and Natural Resources IUNR.

Seminar "Closing water cycles - approaches for building practice". Finissage "Flushlight" & film screening "Holy Shit" at the Stadtgärtnerei Zurich.

First delivery from one of our redevelopment gardens ‘Phytotiny’ with the rack railway.