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Function
1) To collect and process hydrology data for current and future water resources development and management
2) To access hydrology data for water resources and to ensure available information to excute the development and management plan
3) To prepare hydrology services (flood and drought) for major river basin.
4) Water Resources Management and Hydrology is responsible to help and support the department in excuting succesfully it's main functions towards a nation free from flood through coastal enginering, rehabilation and river management, urban drainage engineering and flood mitigation through the functions of these sections:-
- Information and Hydrology Management Section
- Hydrology Instrumentation Section
- Flood Forecast Section
- Water Resources and Hydrology Section
Hydrology is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout earth, and thus addresses both the hydrologic cycle and water resources. Measurement is fundamental for assessing water resources . Research in this field provides a better understanding of the processes involved in the hydrologic cycle, and insight for environmental engineering, policy and planning. Particularly noteworthy for the department are our research achievements in numerical and physical models for water and sediment flow in rivers and reservoirs.
Hydrology is the backbone of Water Resources Development. Water Resources development deals with judicious usage of water resources which essentially can be assessed when we have adequate information of basin water surplus which again, essentially can be determined through assessing precipitation, runoff, overland flow, base flow in dominant drains (Rivers) and interceptions (for assessing ground water reservoir). For this one has to be adept in hydrology and adequate understanding of hydrological cycle prevailing in the chosen catchment where water resources has to be developed.
Hydrology is the science that treats the waters of the earth, their occurrence, circulation and distribution, their chemical and physical properties, and their reaction with their environment, including their relation to living things. The domain of hydrology embraces the full life history of water on the earth”
The function of hydrology
