Vízügyi Közlemények, 1973 (55. évfolyam)

4. füzet - Rövidebb közlemények és beszámolók

(14) dialectic approach to sciences dealing with water, but scientific problems have been handled in accordance with the complex objectives of water management and thi major tasks thereof have been investigated on the basis of the results obtained. The activities included the engineering hydraulic, hydrological aspects of research on both surface and subsurface waters, as well as, the data collection work on which these are founded and which was guided according to the objectives of water management with the closest cooperation of various other agencies. The Institute has met these responsibilities as a result of 20 years of development, in the following domains of research and in an organisational framework corresponding to these (departments): 1. Water management research (department) is responsible for research on complex water management and water resources management. 2. Research on the hydrology of surface waters (department) is concerned with questions of hydrology, hydrometeorology, systems-hydrology, with dreams and lakes, with hydrological and hydrometeorological forecasting, togetlier with the related fields of computation methods and techniques, as well as data processing and filing. 3. Research in the hydrology and hydraulics of subsurface waters (department) is concerned with hydrology and hydraulics of groundwater, karstic water and artesian waters. 4. Research on water quality and treatment technology (department) is concerned with the technology of water- and wastewater treatment, as well as, with pollution control. 5. Research on the mechanics of fluids (department) is concerned with the hydraulics of natural channels, structures and water utilities, with the development of instruments, with the construction of models and with the perfection of measurement techniques. 6. Research on hydraulic engineering (department) is concerned with field checks on existing structures, with the methods and materials of hydraulic construction, with the distribution of water in agriculture and with the testing of hydraulic machinery. The successfull functioning of the organisation that developed successively may be attributed to two factors, namely — the establishment of organisational unity of data-collection, processing and research work and the close coordination of hydrology with the applied research projects, — with its organisational structure it covered the same domains of water management as the comprehensive water service in Hungary. Table I. Research projects handled at the institute during twenty years, groups according fields of research No. of. No. of. Field of Research Projects Field of Research Projects General problems in water 1461 management 16 Hydraulics and hydromechaWater resources management 139 nics 277 Hydrology 404 Hydraulic engineering 161 Flood control 77 Waterways 3 River regulation 94 Hydroelectric power development 10 Watershed control 39 Barrages 3 Agricultural water management 246 Reservoir dams 2 Pollution control 98 Hydraulic machinery 61 Water supply 142 Instrument development 70 Sewerage 1 Economics 20 Wastewater treatment 205 Other fields of science 36 Transfer 1461 Total 2104