Welcome to Water@UNSW, the UNSW Water Research Centre
Maintaining international research leadership in all key facets of Australia’s contemporary and future water issues
UNSW through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has a 50 year history of leading development of water technology in Australia. Apart from maintaining the largest postgraduate and undergraduate programs in water engineering in Australia, the School is active in Australian fundamental water research:
- Surface and groundwater hydrology – ongoing Australian leadership of the quantifying of rainfall, runoff and groundwater flows at catchment scales. (This history includes development of the lead Australian design document, Rainfall and Runoff, now published and developed by Engineers Australia).
- Public health and water treatment – fundamental investigations of the chemistry and microbiology of water for urban use have been focussed within the Centre for Water and Waste Treatment over the last 20 years.
- Civil and environmental hydraulics – practical and theoretical hydraulics research undertaken using the unique large-scale facilities of the Water Research Laboratory at Manly Vale.
There are contemporary pressing needs for better integrated water management at national and state levels in Australia. In recognition of present need for more multifaceted approaches, the School has united its longstanding and major water research activities within a single Water Research Centre.
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