The Department of Water Hazard Research was established in 2001. It is the main-body of the Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction, the Ministry of Water Resources of China. Its researches focus on developing theories, methodologies and techniques for flood and drought management. The Department has 79 staff members in 5 research sections, including 42 professor-level senior engineers, 17 senior engineers, and 20 engineers. There are 68 members having a doctoral degree, and 11 having a Master's degree.

Section of Flood Management and Impact Assessment Research

·   Flood management theory

·   Flood management methods

·   Flood impact assessment

·   Flood control and disaster mitigation strategies

The waterlogging distribution and countermeasures to lower flood risk

Section of Decision Making Support Technology in Flood Control

·   The decision making support system of flood control

·   Flood risk mapping

·   Flood forecasting and dispatching model

·   3D decision making support system

·   Ice flood decision making support

·   Flood control planning

·   Decision making support platform for urban flood forecasting and pre-warning

The simulation model for flood in river bay areas

Section of Engineering Technology in Flood Control and Disaster Reduction

·   Flash flood disaster investigation and assessment

·   Flash flood disaster comprehensive monitoring and warning

·   Flash flood disaster-causing mechanism and simulation

·   Informationization of flash flood disaster prevention and control

·   Community-based flash flood prevention

·   Fundamental theories of flood control engineering

·   Inspection of sudden dangers and defects of flood control projects

·   Emergency protection technologies in dikes and dams

·   Informationization of water and soil conservation supervision

National flash flood disaster monitoring, forecasting and early warning platform

Section of Drought Management and Countermeasures

·   Standard of drought disaster and drought control preparedness plan

·   Risk assessment of drought disaster and insurance of drought disaster

·   Theory and application of urban drought control management

·   Policy and strategy of drought control

·   Information management system of drought control

National drought monitoring and warning platform

Section of Theoretical and Experimental Research on Flood Disaster Mitigation

·   Mechanism and process simulation of dam breach

·   Mechanism and process simulation of urban flood

·   Mechanism of flood induced disaster and process simulation

·   Flood numerical simulation and software development

·   Application of new information technology in flood control and disaster reduction

·   Experimental Hall on Flood Control and Disaster Reduction

Independently developed high performance flood analysis software