Welcome to Water in Historic City Centres (WIHCC)

WIHCC is a European Transnational project between the cities of Breda (NL), 's-Hertogenbosch (NL), Ghent (B), Mechelen (B), Chester (UK) and Limerick (IE). This project is developed within the Interreg IIIB programme North West Europe (NWE). At the moment, the project is about halfway: the official start took place in Limerick, in November 2003 and the final conference has been planned at the end of 2007 in Breda, the leading City.

The title of the reflects the central role that water is increasingly playing in the (socio-economic and spatial) structural intensification of old city centres which  have a historical relationship with water. Thereby in many NWE cities there is an increasing problem, but also a challenge, with regard to good water management.

All cities are busy to give water an import role (again) in their city centres. The various scopes within the pilot projects cover a broad range of topical themes, such as water management, mobility, ecology, tourism, urban economy and cultural inheritance. 

On this website you find a lot of  information about the six partner cities, the local projects (the so-called demonstration projects) and the state of the affairs. All knowledge and expertise the cities gather will  be exchanged and shared in Seminars with interested cities from North West Europe. Knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer has also been one of the conditions to get the European subsidies in the first place. Therefore during the term of the project , a series of 'products' will be developed, varying from this website to a travelling exhibition and from a guideline to a professional film.

We invite you to take note of all information and aspects of  the WIHCC project, to make a 'tour' along the six historical partnercities and to keep yourself informed about the state of the affairs of WIHCC and the six local  projects.

If you have any questions or remarks, do not hesitate to contact us. By phone 0031 76 529 39 32 of by e-mail: info@wihcc.nl 
Maybe your question has already been answered in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), which are to be found through the link, on the leftcolumn on the homepage.

We wish you a lot of pleasure.