Research, teaching, and business operations

The importance of water at the University of Bern 

The University of Bern is involved in numerous national and international research projects in the field of water and water management. 

The University of Bern also strives to use water responsibly in its day-to-day operations. As a “Blue University”, it takes its water from the public supply – i.e. tap water – and avoids transported, commercially available bottled water as much as possible. This makes sense for environmental reasons, as bottling, packaging and transporting bottled water require up to a thousand times more energy than distributing the same amount of tap water. 

Water consumption per person at the University of Bern was already reduced by at least 40% between 2002 and 2023.