Water impacts on all our lives.
It is the main resource to underpin economic development, the primary medium of aquatic life, the sustainer of life on land and a regulator of climate. Nevertheless, it can also disrupt the environment and devastate our cities, farms and homes by flooding and droughts, and by carrying dangerous contaminants and disease causing organisms. There is a growing need for well-trained professionals to manage, regulate, predict and study water in the environment and our lives. This need has been increasingly recognised by government and industry as recent severe weather events have damaged the infrastructure of our society in Britain and abroad. Aims and Objectives Water Science at Aberystwyth is the study of the interaction of water with the atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic environments, based on a foundation in the principles of hydrology and environmental science, and directed towards improved management of water quantity and quality at catchment and global scales.