The Institute of Groundwater Management
The institute represents the field of groundwater management in teaching and research. It emerged from the Institute for Soil and Water Management of the former Dresden University of Technology, which was established in 1946 and was housed in the Nabeshima Building in the Great Garden until 2010. Since then, the IGW is located on the central TU campus in the new building Chemistry / Hydrosciences (building CHE), Bergstraße 66.
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Teaching and Research at the Institute
For student education, the IGW contributes a diverse range of courses to the Bachelor's degree program and five Master's degree programs in Hydroscience: Water Management, Hydrology, Waste Management and Contaminated Sites, Hydrobiology, and Hydro science and engineering. The focus is on methods and their fundamentals. The course content is taught in coordinated lectures, exercises, seminars, practical courses and excursions. In addition, final theses on the topic of groundwater are offered for Bachelor's and Master's studies, which are usually related to a research focus of the IGW.
The research activities at the IGW are both basic and application-oriented. Examples of the main research areas are mine water purification, stable isotope analysis, tracer techniques, karst hydraulics, coastal groundwater systems and managed aquifer recharge. The associated investigations use - individually or in combination - innovative methods in the laboratory, in the field and in computer simulations.