River basin management: water in cities and rural areas

Our research group deals with questions of water resource management in urban and agricultural areas, especially in connection with river basin management. This involves water shortages (drought), water surpluses (floods) and water pollution. Issues include agricultural and urban irrigation requirements, the transport of pollutants from the catchment area into rivers and seamless hydrological forecasting for the early detection of extremes and for the preparation of appropriate measures. 
Hydroinformatics methods are applied, such as data acquisition via sensors and remote sensing, hydrological modelling (especially with river basin models such as SWAT/SWAT+, HYPE, WEAP), optimisation and artificial intelligence.
The research group has numerous long-standing international contacts, e.g. in Brazil, Chile, India and the USA. Through participation in an international Master's programme, case studies have been carried out in other countries, e.g. Kenya, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malawi, Sudan, Tajikistan, Nepal.