Value proposition

For a better water future

IHE Delft is the largest international graduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, the Netherlands. Since 1957 the Institute has provided water education and training to professionals from over 160 countries, the vast majority from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Also, numerous research and institutional strengthening projects are carried out throughout the world.

The Institute envisions a world free of poverty and injustice, in which people manage their water and environmental resources sustainably and equitably.

IHE Delft works in partnership to strengthen capacity in the water sector to achieve global sustainable development.


water education, water research, water governance, water treatment, water security, water conflict, wetlands, desalination, sanitation, water engineering, hydroinformatics, hydrology, WASH, capacity development, floods, droughts, irrigation, and rivers