The Dresden Water Center supports the dialogue between science and application based on the excellence of the involved partners offering cooperation as well as strategic partnerships with partners from Universities, administration and water management, and esp. the following services:

- Interdisciplinary basic research on complex natural and technical water systems, also in cooperation with external partners

- Applied research on systems management, also in cooperation with industrial partners

- Education and training activities (e.g. in the field of flood risk management)

- Consultancy of local, regional, and national administration, government and policy-makers

- Organisation of annual symposia and editing an own book series “Progress in Hydro Science and Engineering”