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Healthy water is vital to people, animals and plants. In our Certificate of Sustainable Water Technology, you will look at the miracle called water from an environmental, social and technical point of
Healthy water is vital to people, animals and plants. In our Certificate of Sustainable Water Technology, you will look at the miracle called water from an environmental, social and technical point of view. You will learn how to produce clean healthy drinking water and how to purify wastewater. You will also explore the social aspects of water technology: you will learn about water policy, different water demands in different countries and how to deal with these technologically.

And of course you will learn to deal with water treatment from an economic point of view: you will learn how to calculate technology cost and investments. This is called the Triple P-approach: looking at solutions from a social (people), environmental (planet) and an economic (prosperity) point of view and finding the most favourable combination, and to communicate this effectively.

This course introduces the participants to the use of sustainable development as a framework to analyse and develop innovative solutions for the most important problems of our time.
The program covers technology, management and policy with the main focus on the natural sciences. Modern teaching and learning methods are used: a modular curriculum, an integrated thematic approach, student centred learning strategies and competence based learning. In the latter concrete situations from professional practice is the starting point for acquiring knowledge and skills. Part of the program can be an internship or research project at one of our centres of Expertise: Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Water Technology(CEW) or Centre in Bio Based Economy (CBBE).