General information

The T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute (TGM WRI), a public research institution, was established as one of the first scientific institutes in the independent Czechoslovak Republic. The Institute was established as the State Hydrological Institute by a resolution of the Ministerial Council of 9^th December 1919. After 1989, the Institute was transferred to the newly established Ministry of the Environment and from 1993 it began to function as its contributory organization. As a public research institution, TGM WRI was established by Provision No. 12/06 of the Ministry of the Environment on the issuance of a charter of a public research institution dated 12^th December 2006. The Institute was entered into the Register of Public Research Institutions of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports on 1^st January 2007.