History
As part of Singapore's push to be a Global Hydrohub, a memorandum of understanding was signed in 2006 between NUS, PUB and Delft Hydraulics to create a center of excellence for water knowledge at NUS . This MoU resulted in the creation of SDWA which was officially launched on Feb. 2007. Since its inception, SDWA has already started work on 8 research projects with more in the pipeline.
Currently SDWA is led by Assoc. Prof. Vladan Babovic as the Director.
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