Water Engineering
The Water Engineering Department carries out academic education, research and projects related to:
- water resources assessment and control
- water supply, irrigation and drainage
- navigation and hydropower
- river, port and coastal engineering
- floods, droughts and pollution
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The Water Engineering Department has four different cores :
Hydraulic engineering is primarily concerned with water-related infrastructure in rivers, river basins and coastal zones that is needed to enhance the beneficial and sustainable use of water and/or to control water-related problems. In this field of activity there are multiple stakeholders repr...
The Coastal Engineering and Port Development (CEPD) core group deals with the analysis, design and management of natural and man-made systems in the coastal environment. It deals with the defence, protection and management of coastal zones and the planning and the design of ports and harbours.
The Hydraulic Engineering Land and Water Development (HELWD) core group deals with the technology of adapting and managing land and water resources for specific forms of land use in rural, urban and industrial areas. Its activities focus on the development of rural areas, and fall into two main...
Hydrology is the ‘science that deals with the water of the earth, their occurrence, circulation and distribution, their chemical and physical properties, and their reaction with their environment, including their relation to living beings’. Hydrology is also the ‘science that deals with the pro...