The Centre for Water and Waste Technology (CWWT), formerly called the Centre for Wastewater Treatment, was established in 1987 as a Centre of Excellence. The Centre operates as an externally funded centre within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales.
The CWWT mission is to provide a focus within the University of New South Wales for multidisciplinary collaborative research, development and training in tools for environmental management and sustainability. The centre aims to complement the research and training goals of the University of New South Wales, and provides significant opportunities to postgraduate students to undertake industry related research projects. These can be on topics related directly or indirectly to CWWT projects or to the overall research program of the Centre. Supervision of these postgraduate students is provided through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The Centre sources research funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Cooperative Research Centre's Programme (CRC) and Department of Education and Training (DEST), which is supported by national industry association funding and international competitive funding from organisation such as AWWARF, MISTRA and WERF resulting in an average annual research budget of 1.8 million. This funding supports 12 research associates and post-doc researchers and approximately 20 PhD students. 3 academic staff are support from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Since 2001, the Centre has received in excess of $7.7 million dollars in research funding from ARC, CRC and DEST including 7 ARC Discovery Projects, 11 ARC Linkage Projects, 3 DEST (or equivalent) Projects, and 6 CRC Projects, which are supported by international and national research project valued at $3.3 million dollars. This research has produced over 120 DEST publications and has been granted 3 patents.
The Centre has extensive collaborative links with leading international research institutions in Europe, North America and Asia including Cambridge, Cranfield University, Karlsruhe, Delf University, Swedish Institute for Infectious Desease Control, University of Lund, CEA-CNRS, CNRS-University Aix-Marseille, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer-UBO Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, University of Southern California, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Nanyang Technological University, Shenyang University, Tohoku University and the Indian Institute of Technology.
