Delft Urban Water

Civil Engineering is concerned with the development, design, construction, production and management of the physical infrastructure required to safeguard the safety, health, business activity and sustainability of our society. These facilities are built to provide services such as water management, soil management, urban development, flood protection, drinking water production, waste treatment, transport by water, rail and road, and to perform other functions for the public (such as utilities and offices).

As one of the important initiators of Delft Urban Water research center, the department of Water Management can never be ignored.

We love water; swimming water, drinking water, washing water, all water that has to be produced and transported. After it is used it has to be collected, transported again and mostly treated (in the Netherlands, municipalities administer already 100,000 km of sewerage systems). All different things the section SANITARY ENGINEERING of the department water management of the faculty civil engineering and geosciences is working on. But besides loving it, it is also a threat: sometimes there is to much, sometimes to less. We all know pictures of extreme floods and extreme droughts. The behavior of water in the atmosphere, on and under the surface is the area of interest of HYDROLOGY (one of the chairs of the department water management). With this information, predictions can be made; where the water will be at what moment, after heavy showers or under changing circumstances like climate change or deforestation. How to regulate this water for a optimum use and/or a minimum of damage is the area of interest of WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, another chair of the department water management.

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• TU Delft
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