Dr. E. P Yashodharan Executive Vice President.

The Centre for Water Resources Development and Management is one among the R&D institutes of Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment with the Chief Minister as its President and Dr. E. P Yashodharan as Executive Vice President.
The management of the Centre is done by a Management Committee chaired by the Executive Director of CWRDM.

The scientific activities of the Centre are organized into eight scientific divisions, five central facilities and four regional centres:

Scientific Divisions		Central Facilities
	Surface Water		Water Resources Museum
	Ground Water		Remote Sensing Cell
	Environmental Studies		Manned Observation Stations
	Water Management (Agriculture)		Central Water Analysis Laboratory
			Biotechnology Lab
	Isotope Hydrology
	Training Education and Extension
	Library Documentation and Information Division
	Administrative and Finance
		Sub Centres
			Trivandrum	Kottayam
			Kannur	Ernakulam
There are 34 scientists belonging to multifarious disciplines like civil engineering, hydrology, hydrogeology, environmental sciences, agriculture, biological and chemical sciences, social sciences etc carrying out research on 'WATER' in CWRDM. The technical staff and project staff provide support to the scientific teams. Research council CWRDM has a Research Council with Dr C D Thatte, Former Secretary General, ICID, as the Chairman, which guides the research ventures of the institute. The other members of the Council are: Shri A K Mohile, Dr S Narasimhan, Dr S M Rao, Dr H Raman, Shri T K Sasi and Prof. Jayakumar K.V. (Member-Secretary). Research Committee A Research Committee consisting of all scientists of the Centre assist in monitoring the progress of research works and in carrying out preliminary screening of the project proposals.   Prof. K. V. Jayakumar, PhD (IIT Kanpur), Executive Director Tel: +91 495 2351802, 2351803, 2351804 Fax: +91 495 2351808 E - Mail: kvj@cwrdm.org; ed@cwrdm.org; kvjayco@gmail.com