The European Club of ICOLD (EURCOLD) has recently published the EURCOLD Newsletter No. 3 – 2025, which provides information on dams and activities carried out during 2025 as well as activities and events that will be carried out during 2026. The main activities planned for 2026 are: ICOLD Annual Meeting in May 2026 in Guadalajara, […]

Europe is home to more than 8000 large dams which enable the creation of water reserves of more than 450 billion m3 of water. This infrastructure plays an important role in water management, energy production, agricultural irrigation, drinking water production, flood protection and climate change resilience. Dam and Reservoir Day 2026 is an Initiative initiated […]

In January 2026, in some areas of our country there were major floods which have also caused a debate regarding their causes. On January 23, 2026, Mr. Arjan Jovani, President of EURCOLD and former Chairman of KKDM gave an interview to Monitor Magazine where he emphasized that Hydro-power Dams were not the cause of the […]

At the 28TH ICOLD Congress held in Chengdu, China, on 16 – 23 May 2025, it was approved and issued the ICOLD Declaration titled “Dams and Reservoirs for energy transition and adaptation to climate change” Also, This Declaration was signed by the leaders of IHA, IEA, ICID, WWC and IME To see this ICOLD Declaration, […]

At the 28TH ICOLD Congress held in Chengdu, China, on September 16 – 23 May, 2025, it was held presentation titled “Re- Assessment of the Discharge Capacities and Safety of dams in Drini River Cascade, Albania”. The presentation was done by Eng. Arjan Jovani – Chairman of ALBCOLD. This presentation was prepared by A. Jovani […]

On May 28, 2025, in Tirana, Albania, the International Conference on the topic: “Monitoring the quality and quantity of water in the Reservoirs created by the Dams” was held. At this conference, the presentation “The future of snow and discharge monitoring through IT technologies and instruments” was given by Eng. Luca Bovo from Sommer GmbH, […]

Dams and Reservoirs Day is an annual celebration established by EurCOLD (ICOLD European Club) and held in May. The initiative was launched by the Italian Committee on Large Dams (ITCOLD) to advocate for, recognize contributions to, and promote knowledge about the role of dams, reservoirs, tailings dams, and levees in economic, social, and environmental contexts. […]

Tirana Polis University, in cooperation with KKDM and the companies ALTEA Construction and SISGEO, organised the training course on “Geotechnical Monitoring of Engineering Structures”. In this training course on December 03, 2024, was presented the article titled “A Real Case of earth – filled dam monitoring system”. This presentation was prepared by a Swiss Company […]

On November 18 – 20, 2024 in Graz, Austria at the center of Congresses MCG was held the Annual Meeting HYDRO 2024 on the topic: “Safe technology in turbulent times” In this meeting was presnted the article titled: “Monitoring of Dams and the Dispatcher Center for HPPs in the Drin River Cascade in Albania”. The […]

At the 92nd annual meeting of ICOLD held in New Delhi, India, on September 29 – October 3, 2024, it was held presentation titled “Risk identification and mitigation through surveying and monitoring”. The presentation was prepared by A. Lazareni – Expert of dams, Statcraft & ALBCOLD and G. Mason – Statcraft. To see this presentation, […]