IWAS Água DF

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Human consumption is one of waters most noble uses, since mankind depend on appropriate water offer for survival. Population growth implies a larger use of natural resources; being water the most intensively exploited one. Planned cities often rely on the matter that a larger population that the one they were conceived for tends to settle around the firstly designed nucleus. This is the case of Brasília. Planned in the 60’s to become Brazil’s capital, it gathers today five times the population it was designed for. Two and a half million people live in Brasília and surroundings. As a consequence of accelerated non-planned urbanization and changes in land use there is a strong impact on water resources. Predictions by the local water supplier are that as soon as in 2010 water demand will exceed the systems capability of supply.

In this context the project IWAS Água DF aims to develop an Integrative Water Resource Management system for the capital of Brasília. The project is a German-Brazilian cooperation.

The Department Groundwater Remediation is responsible for coordination of the IWAS Água DF on the German side – together with the TU Dresden – and developing activities within four from eleven Working Groups of the project: 

  • Land Use and Consumption
  • Hydrological Cycle
  • Sediment Formation, Transport and Sedimentation
  • Decision Support System