Main Tasks Can be Undertaken by IHEG

Construction of the IHEG in four aspects: Becoming part of the national innovation system in land and resources; Setting up a qualified scientific team: Building up a comprehensive platform for the international cooperative purpose; Organizing a reliable and efficient team suitable for the social and economic development.

To conduct the study on multi-scale water circulation system evolution regularities- environment effect, groundwater quality change mechanism, transformation technology and ecological protection;

To carry out the theoretical study on groundwater resources assessment, especially on groundwater system in arid area;

To undertake nationwide and transregional groundwater resources assessment and groundwater potential investigation, data collection and actual investigation assessment;

To conduct groundwater quality protection investigation and construction demonstration program.

To carry out the study on interaction of water-soil-ecology and develop the theoretical system of ecological geology in China;

To conduct the study on nationwide or transregional water-soil resources utilization and protection, especially the study on soil erosion, desertilization and salinazation; As to the different storage conditions of groundwater;

To study corresponding new theory and method of groundwater survey;

To carry out groundwater survey and development techniques system for the area greatly short of water resources and its comprehensive utilization;

To conduct the study on theory and method of effective survey, monitoring and harnessing for geological hazards such as collapse, landslide and mudflow;

To undertake the study on monitoring, forecast of geological hazards and application demonstration;

To make the study on Quaternary geology and global climate changes as well as the study on loess;

To undertake the data collection, management and analysis;

To carry out the study on the informationism and play a role of data processing centre;

To undertake nationwide and transregional comprehensive mapping and regional investigation in hydrogeology, engineering geology and environmental geology;

To participate in drawing up the investigation planning and working out the investigation standard and specifications;

To undertake the experiment and analysis in the aspects of hydrogeology¡¢engineering geology and environment geology.