The Education of Hydrologists (report of an Iahs/unesco Panel on Hydrological Education)

In the late 1987, I began discussion on the education of hydrologists with Dr S. Dumitrescu, Director of the Division of Water Sciences of UNESCO. Our concern is reflected in the following two excerpts from the related correspondence: ".... There has been a growing awareness that hydrology as a geophysical science is making slow progress and has no solid foundations. A major (or perhaps the major) factor in this unsatisfactory situation is the fact that the majority of hydrologists are not trained as scientists but as technologists. It seems self-evident that a science cannot be founded on a technological education. Hence, if we are not paying merely lip-service to the science of hydrology, we should make an effort to provide it with an adequate educational basis ..." (Klemes) "... I fully agree with you that the time has come to better define the position of hydrology as a geophysical science, its relations with other PO Box 821, Canberra, ACT, Australia