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The milestones of the academic career of Enrique Cabrera are: 1. Industrial Engineer, 1970. 2. Master’s degree on Physics, 1974. 3. Doctor degree (with his PhD dissertation on water hammer), 1976. 4. Full professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, 1981. 5. Since 2019, emeritus professor at the same University. His 50 years of professional life have been devoted mainly to two well linked fields, the urban water engineering and the pressurized water transport systems. His main effort has been put in solving real problems from an academic perspective. He has authored 350 technical papers, 60 of them published in SCI journals. He has edited 32 books (most of them Proceedings of International Conferences and International Courses he has chaired in Valencia) and contributed to over 50 more. During the last 25 years, being fully aware that the solutions of real and complex water problems are strongly dependent on socio-economic frameworks and water policies, is paying a growing attention to these issues. As a result, he has published over 100 opinion essays on water problems in the most important Spanish daily Journals. Last, given the progressive decline of the education in general and the university training in particular, what he is most proud of his professional career is of his teacher’s work. First from the chair of Fluid Mechanics and later as a promoter of postgraduate courses in the urban hydraulics field, attended by over 2000 professionals. This task has been recently extended to policy makers, that must take important decisions without the adequate education and background. His last book “Guidelines for a sustainable urban water management”, published in 2024, is devoted to fulfilling this knowledge gap, right now, but even more in the near future, the most pressing educational need to solve adequately the main problems of the water engineering field.

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