Activities range from river and maritime hydraulics to water resources development, flood risk management and eco-hydraulics, through to ice engineering, hydroinformatics and continuing education and training.
IAHR stimulates and promotes both research and its application, and by so doing strives to contribute to sustainable development, the optimisation of world water resources management and industrial flow processes.
IAHR accomplishes its goals by a wide variety of member activities including: working groups, research agenda, congresses, specialty conferences, workshops and short courses; Journals, Monographs and Proceedings; by collaborating with international organisations such as UN Water, UNESCO, WMO, IDNDR, GWP, ICSU; and by co-operation with other water-related national and international organisations.
The current vice-presidents are: Prof. Silke Wieprecht (Germany), Dr. Robert Ettema (USA), and Prof. Hyoseop Woo (South Korea).
[5] The IAHR Asia Pacific Division publishes the Journal of Hydro-Environment Research[6] in collaboration with the KWRA, Korean Water Resources Association and Elsevier The IAHR Latin America Division publishes the Revista Iberoamericana del Agua [7] in collaboration with the World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE)