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IHE Delft Institute for Water Education is the largest international graduate education institute in the field of water. The institute confers fully accredited MSc degrees and PhDs. Since 1957 the Institute has provided education to more than 23,000 water professionals from

• ver 190 countries, the vast majority from the

developing world. 124 PhD fellows* are currently enrolled in water-related research. The Institute carries out numerous research and capacity development projects throughout the world.

*PhD fellows active per 31-12-2018

Mission IHE Delft works in partnership to strengthen capacity in the water sector to achieve global sustainable development. Ambition Through our overarching work on capacity development, IHE Delft aims to make a tangible contribution to achieving all Sustainable Development Goals in which water is key. We strongly believe that capacity development, in partnership, is the key to addressing today’s water challenges.

Mission and Ambition

Core activities under capacity development

Education & Training Research & Innovation Institutional Strengthening

5 accredited MSc programmes in water 200-250 students Short & online courses Tailor made trainings With over 140 academic staff and 124 PhD fellows active in water-related, problem-focused and solution oriented research on development issues. strengthen the programmes of universities and research institutes as well as the knowledge and capacity base of ministries and

• ther water sector
• rganizations.

IHE Delft offers a wide range of flexible, high quality, specialized educational programmes to respond to the needs of diverse clients from the water sector.

• MSc programmes
• Short courses
• Online courses
• Tailor-made training

Education & Training

Water Management (106 ECTS) The scientific study of water resources with practical planning and management skills. Urban Water & Sanitation (106 ECTS) Water supply, sanitation and water engineering and management, particularly in urban areas. Environmental Science (106 ECTS) Conservation and prudent use of natural resources for the benefit of society. Water Science & Engineering (106 ECTS) Hydrological and hydraulic processes and modelling tools for improved water management in coastal zones, river basins and agricultural areas. Sanitation (68 ECTS) One-year programme focusing on non-sewered sanitation, delivering graduates with the qualifications required by the sanitation sector.

MSc programmes

Joint programmes are offered in collaboration with renowned partner institutes, have varying start and end dates, and part of the programme is given at a partner institute, often in another country/ continent.

Joint MSc programmes

PhD fellows in 2018

Alumni network

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

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Two projects

Dealing with drought: nature-based water storage for food security in Africa

Pieter van der Zaag

Water storage

Storage deficit (Differences of required storage including EWRs and actual storage, in 106m3)

Source: Gaupp et al., 2015

‘Globally, the stage is set for a tremendous and unprecedented increase in the number of dams, with numbers expected to swell by 16 percent by 2030, and storage volume expected to increase by about 40 percent’ World Bank, 2016

Conventional water storage solutions are not adaptive

Characteristics:

• Hard
• Instantaneous
• Centralising
• Long-lived
• Inflexible

→create path dependency Large dams

Large potential +/- impacts:

• economic
• social
• ecological
• geo-political
• else?

To be found in many arid and semi-arid regions with 400-600 mm/yr of rainfall; in Africa comprising 30% of the land area.

Sand rivers: a nature-based water storage alternative River beds of seasonal rivers

These areas are often considered marginal, lost to socio-economic development, among others due to water scarcity.

• Tekeze sub-basin, Tigray region,

Ethiopia

• Kajiado, Kenya
• Mzingwane sub-basin in Matabeleland,

Zimbabwe

• Limpopo basin in Gaza Province,

Mozambique Arid African Alluvial Aquifers - A4Labs and associated projects (see: http://A4Labs.un-ihe.org)

Sand rivers: a nature-based water storage alternative River beds of seasonal rivers

Sand rivers: a nature-based water storage alternative

Mzingwane, Zimbabwe

Sand rivers: a nature-based water storage alternative

Mzingwane, Zimbabwe

Sand rivers: a nature-based water storage alternative

Chokwe, Mozambique

• Sand dam in seasonally dry river beds

Slide by Prof vd Zaag

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Wonji - Ethiopia

18 months ratooning Total biomass production Harvest index 1.0 Crop efficiency 1.8 (C3-C4) Moisture content 0.59 Average yield 100 ton/ha

Wonji – water productivity

Yield (ton/ha) AETI (mm/season) T (mm/season) Gross WP (kg/m3) Net WP (kg/m3) Gross WP (Yilma, 2017)

Sugarcane 99.85 1,926 1,638 5.22 6.13 5.9-6.6

WP on the low side

Kpong – water productivity

Yield (ton/ha) AETI (mm/season) T (mm/season) Gross WP (kg/m3) Net WP (kg/m3) Banana 37.59 1,022 793 3.72 4.85 Rice s1 4.15 495 356 0.86 1.25 Rice s2 3.99 503 382 0.82 1.11