A delegation led by Professor Steve Wells, President of Desert Research Institute, USA, visited Hohai on September 24, 2012. The delegation includes Director of Dr. Kumud Acharya, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, and Mr. Tom Gallagher and Mr. Leonard Lafrance from Nevada Education Foundation.
President Cheng Wang met with the delegation and discussed the potential collaboration in interdisciplinary research, staff and student training and information exchange, made a plan in cooperative researches on water system intelligent, information system construction, as well as physical and numerical studies in the field of Water Resources, Hydrology and Environment. Both parties hoped to strengthen the cooperation in joint training, seminar, conference and publication.