General Directorate of Water Management

The 3rd meeting of the Hungarian-Serbian Water protection Sub-committee was held between 7 and 9 October 2025, in Hungary, in Szeged. The sampling and analyses necessary for the work of the Hungari...

Between September 23 and 25, 2025, Besztercebánya/Banská Bystrica hosted the 190th meeting of the Ipoly Sub-committee, where water management experts from Hungary and Slovakia met to discuss water ...

Between 3rd and 5th September 2025, Vásárosnamény, Hungary hosted the 26th meeting of the Hungarian-Ukrainian transboundary governmental representatives discussing the common transboundary, water m...

From 11 to 13 June 2025, Paris hosted the celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) and the sixtieth anniversary of UNESCO Water Scien...

At the beginning of July 2025, we had the honour of welcoming a delegation from Thailand. In the spirit of strengthening Hungarian-Thai relations, we had a long discourse about recharging groundwat...

The International Danube Day programme for families and children, organised this year by the Ministry of Energy with the participation of 12 water and/or Danube-related organisations, was once agai...

The General Directorate of Water Management has several partnerships with Technical University München (TUM) in EU funded projects. We recently visited their hydraulic  engineering laboratory in Ob...

Undersigning the Memorandum of Understanding between Yangtze Committee and OVF   We welcomed special guests at OVF (General Directorate of Water Management of Hungary) in April. The delegation of t...

Environtec, the international trade fair for the environment, waste water and sustainability, was held for the first time from 1-3 October 2024 at HUNGEXPO (Pavilion C), where almost 100 exhibitors...

In June 2024, a major flood protection operation took place on the Danube and the Rába River, requiring national cooperation. The highest water levels ever recorded on the Pinka River were also bre...