The full potential of remote access to research tools, data sets, literature has not yet been exploited, sometimes the potential is not even recognized. Even more challenging is the possibility of active participation in research work of colleagues at other locations or collaborative training and teaching to internationally mixed student classes. This becomes vital for education of engineers in the area environment-water as nearly all engineering projects are international. A culture has to be developed 'just by doing' how to collaborate within an 'virtual environment'. It thus promotes the idea and trains the skills of collaboration and networking and will provide direct benefits in terms of knowledge acquisition for participants and besides lead to better understandings of cultures, traditions and problems of other nations, the key to peaceful transnational management of water.
Internet technology supports teaching, research and engineering processes worldwide.
Impact of this development to conventional teaching and research processes shall be outlined. There is a lack of experience and need for bringing experts together to disseminate and publish their observations from practice. Answers have to be find from practice. Set-up of an internet server. Will be continuously updated.