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...

The mission of the Hydrology and Water Resources Core (HWR) is to contribute to a better understanding of hydrological processes, to improve techniques for data monitoring and handling, to improve modelling of processes within the hydrological cycle, and the interpretation and presentation of r...