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Water research at KIT covers a wide range of water sciences and engineering fields such as Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Aquatic Ecology, Fluid-Mechanics, Hydraulic Engineering, and Water Chemistry and Water Technology. Our research aims at an improved understanding of the role of the water cycle and related transport of matter for the functioning of environmental systems. We focus on the synthesis and implementation of foresightful and sustainable water resources management concepts and related technology.

In teaching, water plays also an important role: Several bachelor's and master's degree programs with a strong link to water are offered at KIT.

 

2024_06_Moore_c_DammChristian Damm, KIT
Climate protection: water for dry peatlands

Peatlands bind carbon and can help to slow down climate change. However, as a result of periods of drought, they are drying out more and more, decomposing and releasing climate-damaging CO2 into the atmosphere instead. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are now testing in a research project at the Rastatter Bruch nature and landscape conservation area whether they can prevent the drying out with a test damming of a drainage ditch.

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Außergewöhnliche Niederschläge und Hochwasser in Süddeutschland im Juni 2024Mühr/Ehret, KIT
Exceptional precipitation and flooding in southern Germany in June 2024

The task force of the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) at KIT has compiled an initial report on the flood situation in southern Germany in June 2024. 

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Forschende des KIT untersuchen die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Grundwasserressourcen und die damit verbundenen Folgen Susanne Benz
KIT researchers are investigating the effects of climate change on groundwater resources

Groundwater is the largest unfrozen freshwater reservoir in the world. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have investigated how global warming affects its temperature and what this means for humans and nature. The study shows that by 2100, more than 75 million people are expected to live in areas where the groundwater exceeds the highest drinking water temperature limit set by a country.

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2024_05_IWUBettina Waibel, IWU
Inaugural meeting of the Institute for Water and Environment (IWU)

The new Institute for Water and Environment (IWU) initiated its activities in January 2024. It was created as a merger of the 'Institute for Water and River Basin Management (IWG)' and the 'Institute of Hydromechanics (IfH)'. The occasion was celebrated on 17 May 2024 with the participation of all IWU employees.

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