Nizamiddin Mir Alisher Navoi, the great figure of the 15th century, was born in Herat on the 17th day of Ramadan (February 9, 1441). The city of Herat was  the second capital of the great empire founded by Amir Temur in the first half of the 15th century. It was one of the prosperous settlements under the younger son of Temur Shahrukh Mirzo.

February 26, 2020, at the Department of Irrigation and Reclamation, Head of the Institute of Water Problems, Hydropower and Ecology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, held a meeting with Professor Yarash Ergashevich Pulatov.

On March 4, 2020, talented students of the Eureka club, which operates at the Department of Hydraulics and Hydroinformatics of the Department of Irrigation and Reclamation, visited the Information and Analytical and Resource Center of the Ministry of Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

"The HydroLeaders" team won the honorable 1st place among 74 teams that took part in the Republican competition for youth in the framework of the project “Youth of Uzbekistan against climate change” and won a cash prize of 2000 US dollars.

The Large-scale constructions in the field of hydropower to increase the energy potential of our country. One example of them is the construction of the Pskom HEPS, which is being built on the Pskom River.