Institute of Water Problems and Hydropower has been founded in 1992 as a scientific research institute under the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. The Institute’s activity is generally aimed at carrying out fundamental scientific research and applied studies that are very important for economic development of the Kyrgyz Republic as well as for economies of other Central Asian countries.

More than 60 employees work at the Institute. 26 of them are research workers, 1 is an academician of the National Academy, 4 have the degree of doctors of sciences, 9 are candidates of sciences, and there is one MA degree holder.