Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2016 (96. évfolyam)
2016 / 3. szám - Szlávik Lajos: The 100-year-old Hungarian Hydrological Society welcomes the Budapest Water Summit 2016
3 The 100-year-old Hungarian Hydrological Society welcomes the participants of the Budapest Water Summit 2016 On 7 February 2017 will be the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Hungarian Hydrological Society. Our Society is a social, scientific and professional association established to deal with hydrology and related sciences engaged in water related issues. The objectives of the Society are to promote the development of the country, to facilitate the scientific and technical progress, disseminate scientific knowledge and share information as well as upgrade the knowledge of professionals working on different water related professional fields. We consider that our tasks are in connection with water related professional fields: to spread the technical, natural and social scientific knowledge; to introduce the water science disciplines and their past as well as the results of the current scientific and practical trends; to promote the national awareness about the latest development efforts and their utilization; and to contribute to the international awareness of domestic results. We foster and strengthen our international relations, the traditions of the water related disciplines. We pay attention to and keep the memory of the deceased outstanding professionals worked on various professional fields, as well as preventing and processing their scientific legacy. We also pay attention to the training of water professionals with developing and supporting their professional culture and fastidiousness. These goals are served by our major events, presentation seminars and publications. Members of our Society are not only engineers, but there are also professionals who are dealing with water in many different disciplines, such as science teachers, geographers, chemists, physicians, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, jurists etc., which situation - in the last century - was good for, in one hand, the expansion of engineering thinking, and on the other hand, played an important role in shaping the views of engineers, as well. The Hungarian Hydrological Society has three thousand individual members as well as 150 institutional and company members that are acting on those professional fields that our Society covers. The key to the effective functioning of the Hungarian Hydrological Society is that its individual members with different age, professional qualification and orientation can find events which are of interest to them, gather and exchange of information they are interested in. It is also important that the institutional and company members of the Society also have access to professional information, and their representatives could participate in substantial society events. The Society aims to provide its members with balanced, varied and colourful organization life in the future and with its specific means the Society intends to strengthen the cohesion of professionals in the water management sector. Our committed ambition is to strengthen the fact that it is worth to be a member of the Society and even it means rank. To this end, we are constantly looking on those operating methods, events and relation forms that are conform to the information revolution mechanism in the changing world. We wish to base the rank and attractiveness of the membership of our Society primarily on the social capital and knowledge base that can be increased with membership. Our independent journal, the Hungarian Journal of Hydrology is published continuously since 1921, thus the Reader now holds the 3rd issue of the 96th Volume in hand. On our website is open for all those who are interested in reading the Hungarian Journal of Hydrology. Through the Society’s website all digitized issues can be accessed, thus many thousands of pages can be searched in facsimile format. With the online search system the entire text file of the papers in the system can be searched, thus this is a huge knowledge base that can actively and continuously be utilized in research and engineering practice. The Hungarian Hydrological Society's vision is to uniformly represent the community of the experts working in the fields of national water management with adjusting the activities of the Society to the rapidly changing environment, still respecting the traditions as well as focusing on the development needs. Preservation of the traditions and flexible adaptation to the changing environment are in the centre of the Society’s activities. Entering into the second century of the operation of the Hungarian Hydro- logical Society the keywords of our activities still remain: tradition and progress. The Hungarian Journal of Hydrology intends to serve these principles. Dr. Lajos Szlávik President of the Hungarian Hydrological Society
