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 Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), 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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