Chinese Water Systems

1. Improving water management and the water management system in the Liao river basin and Lake Dian.- 2. Ecological indicators for surface water quality-methodological approaches to fish community assessments in China and Germany.- 3. Dianchi Shallow Lake Management.- 4.  New technical approaches for the co-processing of pharmaceutical wastewater in municipal wastewater treatment plants in the Shenyang region.- 5. The planning, management and decision support systems of Kunming's urban drainage system.-  6. Treatment of wastewater with high proportion of industrial wastewater with extreme requirements on the elimination of nutrients.- 7. Adaption and introduction of German sewer inspection technology in China.

Max Dohmann is Professor emeritus of the University RWTH Aachen and member of the Board of Research Instiute of Water and Waste Management at RWTH Aachen University. His research interests concern general environmental aspects and especially urban drainage, wastewater treatment, water quality management, waste and waste management. After studying civil engineering at the RWTH Aachen University and several years of engineering work in a water management association, he received his doctorate from the University of Hanover in 1974. He then continued his responsible practical work at the water management association and became a professor at the University of Essen in 1983. From 1987 to 2004 he worked as professor and director of the largest German institute for urban water management at the RWTH Aachen University. For several years he was a member of the German Federal Government's Council of Experts on Environmental Issues and a long-standing member of the Governing Board of the International Water Association (IWA). For many years he is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and at Sichuan University in Chengdu. In 2015, the German Ministry of Research appointed him as German spokesperson for the first three German collaborative research projects in the Chinese Major Water Programme.
Martin Grambow is Director General 'Water Management and Soil Protection' at the Bavarian Ministry of Environment and Consumer Protection. His responsibilities comprise all aspects of stewardship for the commons 'water' and 'soil', including regulation, monitoring, and management. In this respect Martin Grambow also represents the state Bavaria in national and international bodies. Amongst others he chairs the German River Basin Management Community Danube, is delegate in the International Lake Constance Conference and the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River. In 2020 and 2021, he is the chairman of the Federal/States Work Group on Water