The IAHR Regional Hydro-Environment Heritage Award and IAHR Regional Industry Award are conferred by IAHR during one or more of the IAHR Regional Congresses on a local infrastructure of lasting and international importance. They have the purpose of giving international professional recognition to the work of local hydro-environment engineers, and should demonstrably have stood the test of time (and be at least one hundred years old) and be accepted and valued nationally:

Asia Pacific Division

IAHR Hydro-Environment Asia and Pacific Division Heritage Award

The IAHR Regional Hydro-Environment Heritage Award is conferred by IAHR during one or more of the Asia and Pacific Division Congresses on a local infrastructure of lasting and international importance. It has the purpose of giving international professional recognition to the work of local hydro-environment engineers, and should demonstrably have stood the test of time (and be at least one hundred years old) and be accepted and valued nationally.

• Sayamaike Reservoir. This facility has been developed in the ancient period for providing an irrigation water to the Osaka Plain using channel network and reservoir cascade system and been reinforced and heightened repeatedly to increase the reservoir capacity with the expansion of the irrigation area and is still being utilized in the area. Osaka-Sayama City, Japan and Osaka Pref., Japan

  
  

• Tatsumi Aqueduct. This facility has been developed in the early modern period for supplying water as fire protection, drinking water, pouring water into a moat, and water for agriculture using tunnel and inverted siphon technology and is still being utilized in the area. Tatsumi Aqueduct Land Improvement District, Japan, Kanazawa City, Japan and Ishikawa Pref., Japan

  
  

• Flood controls and water utilization facilities in the Ishikari River basin. This facility has been developed in the late modern period for transforming cold region peatlands into rice cultivation areas, leading to the formation of a major economic zone and is still being utilized in the area. Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan and Hokkaido Government, Japan

2020: Hokkaido, Japan for the Flood controls and water utilization facilities in the Ishikari River basin

2020: Osaka-Sayama City, Japan for the for the Sayamaike Reservoir

2020: Kanazawa City, Japan for the Tatsumi Aqueduct

2016: The first ever Water Heritage Award was awarded to“Parakrama Samudraya” a reservoir aimed at irrigation and constructed in the 11th century. It has a surface area of 22,600,000 m2 and a catchment area of 75,000,000 m2 

Europe Division

2021

The Europe Regional Hydro-Environment Heritage Award to Augustow Canal for the outstanding hydraulic engineering structure on a Europe-wide scale

The Europe Regional Industry Innovation Award to the Vistula Boulevards in Varsaw for innovative solutions in the city space, combining the needs of inhabitants with nature protection

2016 Europe Regional Division Industry Innovation Award

IAHR Hydro-Environment Europe Division Heritage Award

The IAHR Regional Hydro-Environment Heritage Award is conferred by IAHR during one or more of the Europe Division Congresses on a local infrastructure of lasting and international importance. It has the purpose of giving international professional recognition to the work of local hydro-environment engineers, and should demonstrably have stood the test of time (and be at least one hundred years old) and be accepted and valued nationally.

2016: The European Division of IAHR bestows the 1st Industry Innovation Award to the Construction of the 4th lock of Lanaye during the 4th IAHR Europe Congress in Liege, July 2016

Latin American Division