IAH 2026 Budapest

IAH 2026

World Groundwater Congress

53rd Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists
14-18 September 2026
Budapest Congress Center
IAH 2026 Budapest

Topics

TopicsInteracting groundwater systems in the Water Cycle
  • Water-rock interaction
  • Deep and shallow groundwater interaction
  • Groundwater, soil and vegetation
  • Basin scale groundwater flow
  • Karst hydrogeology
  • Deep groundwater systems and processes
  • Coastal aquifers
  • Fractured rock aquifers
  • Isotope geochemistry
  • Processes in the unsaturated zone
Groundwater in green transition
  • Geothermal and mineral resources
  • Challenges of energy transition (HC, Li)
  • Groundwater and sanitation (wastewater as a resource)
  • Groundwater and circular economy
  • Construction and mining interventions into groundwater
Conjunctive water management
  • Transboundary aquifers/Groundwater without borders
  • International groundwater governance
  • Living laboratory for sustainable groundwater management
  • Groundwater/ecosystem services
  • Groundwater-surface water interaction
Next generation solutions
  • Numerical simulations
  • AI in groundwater studies
  • Experimental developments, lab and field applications
  • Just transition/development
  • Pollution and remediation, emerging contaminants
  • Drivers of changes - Monitoring
Climate change adaptation
  • Living with water scarcity and drought
  • Impacts of extreme events on groundwater
  • MAR and adaptation
  • Anthropogenic effects / Human interventions to water cycle
  • Groundwater and resilient cities
Groundwater and Social awareness/Society
  • Citizen Science
  • Sanitation and poverty
  • Groundwater and health
  • Education
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Venue
Budapest Congress Center
1123 Budapest, Jagelló u. 1-3.
+36 1 372 5400
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