In recent years, heavy rainfall events and floods have been on the increase. Against this background, there is a massive need for action in dealing with concentrated masses of water in order to avoid or minimize their sometimes devastating effects and damage as best as possible. [more]
published: 16.02.2022
In large parts of the world, water is extracted from ground or surface waters to meet the population's water needs. However, these water resources are not available in unlimited quantities. A wastewater reuse project at Hof University of Applied Sciences is addressing this issue. [more]
published: 15.02.2022
Since May 2021, the "Water Infrastructure and Digitization" research group at the iwe has been working on a topic relevant to agriculture: the aim is to investigate how agriculture affects the water balance. [more]
published: 14.09.2021
The first meta-study on digitization in the German-speaking water industry has been completed: Around 700 projects, products and digitization solutions were analyzed, as well as surveys and expert interviews. [more]
published: 11.05.2021
In a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) entitled "WaterExe4.0", researchers from the Institute for Water and Energy Management (iwe) at Hof University of Applied Sciences are identifying success factors for successful implementation transfer in digitization projects in the water industry [more]
published: 10.02.2021