IAH Annual Report 2025

Strengthening and supporting

We believe that IAH has a crucial role in both supporting and representing the international groundwater community across the world, with 5067 members in 138 countries now.

 

We will keep striving to increase this number and our world-wide activities because the greater our number and effort, the more powerful and effective our voice internationally and the wider we can reach in all aspects of our work.

 

Membership

Membership

Membership increased from 4543 in 2024 to 5067 in 2025. There were 665 students with free membership and 1205 students in total including paid-for memberships. We supported 244 members from low-income backgrounds with sponsored memberships, with costs for 136 members...

National Chapters

National Chapters

IAH’s 53 national chapters are voluntary groups that operate within their own national regulatory frameworks while upholding IAH’s principles and aims. Each chapter develops its own identity and activities—often with unique logos—and focuses on locally relevant talks,...

Support to members

Support to members

Education and Outreach is a vital part of IAH’s mission to further the understanding, wise use and protection of groundwater resources throughout the world. In 2025 we supported our commissions, networks and national chapters in running webinars by hosting the events...

Members across IAH’s Regions

Enjoy reading about all the great work we’ve done! Choose from the topics below.

Strengthening and supporting

Governing and managing

Science, knowledge and education

Corporate relationships

Informing and influencing

Finance

Strengthening and supporting

Governing and managing

Informing and influencing

Science, knowledge and education

Corporate relationships

Finance