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The 5th International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management and the 3rd International Symposium on Methodology in Hydrology, held at Hohai University on 19-21 November, 2010. ICWRS of IAHS, State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, and Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, jointly organized the symposia. More than 200 participants from USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Norway, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Malaysia, Pakistan, and China, assembled in Nanjing. Prof. Weiya Xu, Vice-President of Hohai University, and Dr. Pierre Hubert, IAHS Secretary General, delivered welcome speeches on behalf of Hohai University and IAHS, respectively. Prof. Gunter Bloschl, ICWRS President of IAHS, Director of Centre for Water Resources Systems, Vienna University of Technology, sent a letter of congratulation on the opening of the symposium. Prof. Liliang Ren, ICWRS Vice-President of IAHS, the Secretary General of the 5th International Symposium on IWRM, chaired the opening ceremony. Academician Changming Liu, Academician Hao Wang, Academician Jianyun Zhang, the President of Chinese National Committee for IAHS, Prof. E. Sudicky from University of Waterloo, Prof. V. P. Singh from Texas A & M University, Dr. Pierre Hubert, IAHS Secretary General, Prof. A. Schumann from Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, ICWRS Vice-President, Prof. Nick van de Giesen from Delft University of Technology, ICWRS Secretary, Dr. I. Littlewood, Editor-in-Chief of Hydrology Research, Prof. N. R. Saelthun from University of Oslo, gave the invited keynote lectures and oral presentations in the Plenary Session in the morning and afternoon of November 20, respectively. Main themes of the syposium include: Water resources assessment and management; Ecohydrological approach to water resources sustainability; Water environment; Subsurface water and groundwater; Uncertainty in hydrologic modeling; Hydrological data mining and data assimilation; Hydrological data retrieval by remote sensing methods; and Hydrological modelling supported by multi-source information. The 2-day symposia brought together experts from different disciplines to present research results on describing the hydrological cycle in changing environments and discriminating among impacts caused by various factors, to exchange experiences about quantitative methodology for water resources assessment in a changing environment and eco-hydrological approach to water resources sustainability by balancing water for humans and nature.
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