Vízügyi Közlemények, 1962 (44. évfolyam)
4. füzet - IX. Könyvismertetés
(72)* The aim of the conference was not merely the celebration of this anniversary, but several problems relating to the interests of water economy were included for presentation and discussion on the agenda of the scientific sessions. The formal session of the Conference was opened by the opening address of the author of this report, in which the scientific work carried out in Hungary in the filed of water economy was outlined before the participants of the Conference. Subsequently Mr. I. Dégen, Director of the Hungarian National Water Authority commenced on the significance and history of scientific hydraulic research in Hungary, while Mr. K. Stelczer, Director of the Research Institute for Water Resources described the development of the Institute's activities and the tasks of the future. The formal session was addressed by representatives of the International Danube Committee, the International Association for Hydrology, the International Association of Hi/draulic Research and several delegations from abroad. Four experts were invited by the organizing committee to deliver lectures at the scientific, sessions. His illness prevented Prof. G. V. Bogomolow (Moscow) from attending the Conference, so his paper was distributed in print among the participants. The joint Paper of G. V. Bogomolow and I. G. Bogomolow is devoted to the methods of evaluation of underground water resources. The damages caused in several countries over the world by the overexploitation of water-bearing strata have been pointed out by the authors. Methods introduced in the Soviet Union for the organized exploitation of underground water resources arc described and the establishment of a UNO agency is suggested the task of which would be the protection and reasonable utilization of underground water resources. M. II . André (Grenoble), leader of the Study and Hydrometeorological department of Electricité de France presented the methods and instruments of flow measurement. The wide variety of methods employed by his company serves mainly the interests of hydroelectric energy production and have been developed accordingly. Dr. V. Madera, Professor (Prague) devoted the first part of his paper to the classification of water quality and to obsolete methods thereof. Hereafter he presented his suggestions for improving water quality, stressing the necessity of full scale interference. Dr. G. Bata, Professor, (Belgrade) introduced the recent trends in hydromechanics, giving a summary of the various aspects of the subject and pointing to the problems which indicate the new path of hydromechanical research. Numerous written contributions were received to all of the four papers, and many were contributed by both foreign and Hungarian participants during the discussion. In his closing adress Mr. K. Stelczer, presented his suggestions for a closer cooperation between the research institutes of the interested countries in the field of water economy research in the Danube Valley. 39 foreign and about 300 Hungarian participants attended the Conference. The foreign guests arrived from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, China, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, the German Federal Republic, Italy, Roumania, Switzerland. (The list of foreign participants can be found on p. 512 of the Hungarian text.) Following the sessions, a studytour was organized for the foreign participants, which took the guests to the Groundwater Research Station of the Research Institute for Water Resources (Kecskemét), to a pilot catchment area in the Hungarian Plains (Abádszalók), to the Hydraulic Experimenting Station at the Tiszalök Barrage on the Tisza River, to the navigable main irrigation canal cutting through the Plains to the Tiszalök Barrage and Hydroelectric Station. The Hydraulic and Water Chemical Laboratory of the Institute (in the vicinity of Budapest) was also visited. (Translated by Z. Szilvássy, struct, eng.)
