Sustainable Water Management

Climate Change, a changing demography, global value chains, pollution, and excessive exploitation as well as a growing world population pose significant challenges to a sustainable management of natural water resources.

Wasser: N provides the framework for cross-sectoral water research.
Wasser: N provides the framework for cross-sectoral water research. © Adobe Stock/chagin

Sustainable water management needs to ensure a balance between water supply and demand, while at the same time protecting water resources. It reconciles the needs of a growing world population for clean water and regulated wastewater treatment, the demands of a globalized world economy and the protection of water resources and ecosystems.

Led by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German government has therefore launched the research program " Wasser: N - Research and Innovation for Sustainability". For the coming years, it formulates joint goals of the participating ministries for cross-sectoral water research with closely interlinked funding instruments. Wasser: N is part of the 'Research for Sustainability (FONA)' strategy.

Wasser: N aims to initiate an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral exchange between stakeholders from science, business, society and politics. The key topics of the programme include clean water, healthy ecosystems, water-related extreme events and resource-efficient water cycles.

 

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