Water people and cooperation

Abstract

The initiation of IHD had a profound effect on the conduct of hydrological research in Canada. The setting up of a series of small representative and experimental basins in which instrumentation and measurement techniques were standardized and which were thus comparable with similar basins set up in many other countries facilitated the development and inter-comparison of hydrological models. Canada was one of the countries that particularly benefitted from this initiative, stimulating the research community that was somewhat lagging behind in research capabilities in comparison to several other countries. Many young scientists started their research in these small research basins, many of which are still active today, providing long-term data banks of meteorological and hydrological information.