Vízügyi Közlemények, 2021 (103. évfolyam)
2021 / 2. szám - Introduction by the editors
Vízügyi Közlemények, Cili. évfolyam, 2021. évi 2. füzet 11 Architecture (Vízépítészeti Pavilon) providing a comprehensive view of the Hungarian history and achievement of river regulation and hydraulic construction. The Poirée-frame needle weir of Gyula on the White-Körös (Fehér-Körös) was built under 48 days in the fall of 1896. This was the second of this type structure in the country (the first one - but much smaller - was erected on the Borzsa, tributary of Upper-Tisza in 1891). The water of the 30 m wide White- Körös was dammed up with 292 pieces of larch. Its designation was to supply Gyula, Békéscsaba and Békés with water through the Élővíz-canal. It provided this service for more then 100 years when it was replaced with an inflatable gate in 1998-1998. The Scientific Advisory Board of the General Directorate of Water Management (OVF) has launched a series of books titled “Building the future in water management” to present oeuvres of the prominent actors of the profession. A new book of the series is presented in this volume. The book titled “The integrated water management” of Prof. István Ijjas came out in 2019. The subtitle of the book specifies that the birth of the hydroinformatics and the European and global integration in the water management are the topics for the last 50 years bringing about the greatest novelties and changes and these have been in the center of his interest during his professional carrier. We continue the „Great Personalities of the Water Management” series started in the previous volume of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. This time we pay tribute to Árpád Kocsis bom 100 years ago and took a degree at the Budapest University of Technology in 1946. He worked in the Körös-region, the in the Trans-Danubia where he was director of the Regional Water Directorate. For the following two years he worked as the Deputy General Director of the General Directorate of Water Management (OVF). Later he worked in VIZITERV, and he became the General Director of it between 1977 to 1983. József Váradi editor in chief Lajos Szlávik editor
