Unesco-IHE Institute for Water Education

found: Guidelines on municipal wastewater management, 2004:p. 2 of cover (UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education)

found: UNESCO-IHE Web site, viewed Jan. 13, 2005:(The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (in short 'UNESCO-IHE'); decision to found made during the 31st General Conference of UNESCO in November 2001; officially signed into existence 18 March 2003)

found: UNESCO-IHE website, viewed Mar. 3, 2014:home (UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, in banner; address Delft, The Netherlands) Historical time line (in the wake of the North Sea flood of 1953, the first "International Course in Hydraulic Engineering" was set up in 1957, participants from 45 countries; in 1960 at request of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Delft Univ. of Technology and the Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation (Nuffic) in a mutual effort extended IHE's curriculum with the "European Course in Sanitary Engineering"; in 1976 the name International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE) was introduced; several years later "Infrastructural" was added to the name, not changing the abbreviation IHE; IHE celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1977; in 1995 IHE became an independent institute after having been part of Nuffic for 39 years; as of Jan. 1, 1996, all staff employed by the IHE foundation; decision to establish the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Nov. 2001; came into operation in 2003)

found: Study Portals for Masters website, viewed Mar. 4, 2014(The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education; created in 2003 from the previous IHE, which grew out of the International Course in Hydraulic Engineering, set up in 1957, whose name was changed in 1976 to International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE); based in Delft, owned by all UNESCO member states)