The conference will be held in the Georgian Institute of Water Management, in the old part of the city of Tbilisi.

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of the Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mtkvari River. The city covers an area of 726 km² and has 1,093,000 inhabitants.

Founded in the 5th century and made into a capital in the 6th century, Tbilisi is a significant industrial, social, and cultural center. The city is also emerging as an important transit route for global energy and trade projects. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia and lying along the historic Silk Road routes, Tbilisi has often been the point of contention between various rivaling powers and empires.

The demographics of the city is diverse and historically it has been home to peoples from different cultures, religions and ethnicities.

A legal person of civil law – the Institute of Water Management – in the past, Institute of Water Management and Engineering Ecology, Georgian Acad. Sci. (Saktsqalecologia), and still earlier, Scientific-research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Reclamation – has been functioning since 1929. Since the day of its foundation, the Institute – the only one in Transcaucasia – has been engaged in research on solving problems of water economy, coastal erosion, water reservoirs and rivers, protection of the environment from natural disasters, drainage, reliable functioning of the soil, forests, air, hydrotechnical structures, etc. Later scientific-research institutes of analogous purpose were set up in Azerbaijan and Armenia, which function at the present time and cooperate with our Institute.

Building of the Institute of Water Management

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