Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

The water safety management group contributes to the development and evaluation of strategies that support reliable access to safe und sufficient water in low-income regions. We develop and evaluate analytical tools that support integrated water management in a defined system to identify threats for a reliable supply of sufficient and safe water. We are combining evaluations of water management and governance, technical assessments of water supply and water treatment systems with evaluations of land-use management in the catchment areas of water sources and participatory, multistakeholder processes to identify, test and evaluate potential adaption mechanisms and their impact.