Translating water research into practice

Bridging the gap between water research and practice is a shared responsibility.

Hydrology and water resources have observed tremendous technical advances in the last few decades due to innovations in instrumentation, monitoring and modelling. Today, there are insights on issues like global freshwater availability, global flood risk and future water security. The human dimension of water management has also been recognised. And we are slowly shifting from engineering solutions to water problems towards nature-based solutions and new approaches to water research that increasingly acknowledge the role of the public in data acquisition and the role of social systems as part of a coupled water system.