Welcome to the Coordination Office of the Water Research Network Baden-Württemberg of KIT

Project Effect-Network in Water Research (© Institute for Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen)

Project Effect-Net: Analysis of zebrafish larva in the lab of Heidelberg University using a DanioScope of Noldus (© S. Mieck)

Project DRIeR: Drought Impacts, Processes and Resilience
Dreisam (Freiburg, Germany) in Summer 2018 (© V. Blauhut)

Low water in the river Rhine at Karlsruhe in autumn 2018
Project DRIeR: Information about the drought 2018

Project CHARM: Challenges of Reservoir Management

Schwarzenbachtalsperre (© S. Haun)

Project CHARM: Measuring Campaign Kleine Kinzig (© S. Haun)

The scope of the Water Research Network is to enhance the collaboration across disciplines and locations in Baden-Württemberg in order to meet the future challenges of water research. The network was founded at the initiative of the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the Land of Baden-Württemberg).

The Water Research Network is supported by the new Water Research Funding Programme of the Land of Baden-Württemberg. As a central component, three interdisciplinary joint projects, so called 'Forschernetzwerke' (researcher networks), are being funded for a period of five years.

NEWS

Early Recognition of Potential Drought Impacts

Researchers develop a forecasting system and challenge the political agenda in this area

Press release of the University of Freiburg on the project DRIeR

Publication in 'Reviews of Geophysics'

'The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone' from Sprenger et al. on the workshop Water Ages in the Hydrological Cycle

Review

6 Million Euros for Water Research

The Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the Land of Baden-Württemberg is funding 3 interdisciplinary joint projects of the universities Freiburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Stuttgart and Tübingen.

Press release of the Ministry