Water resources and melioration

In 1942, the Hydro-Reclamation Faculty was established on the basis of KazSHI, which included the Department of "Hydro-Reclamation". In 1947, the first graduation of hydraulic engineers took place. During the Great Patriotic War, Lashkar Yesenkulovich Tazhibaev, a graduate of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, was at the origins of the training of hydraulic engineers. 
In 1963, the Department of "Hydraulics and Agricultural Water Supply" was organized on the basis of the Department of "Water Energy Use". The head is associate professor L.D.Arkhangelsky.
Since 1970, the Department of Hydraulics and Agricultural Water Supply was again headed by the Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor L.E.Tazhibaev. The staff of the department, along with the training of specialists, was fruitfully engaged in research work. By a joint order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR and the Ministry of Water Management of the USSR, since February 1979, the department has organized a branch scientific research laboratory for agricultural water supply and irrigation of pastures (ONIL).
In the period 1979-1996, the department carried out scientific research in all three organizational areas: state budget, contractual and postgraduate topics. All research works of the department were aimed at solving urgent problems of irrigation and irrigation reclamation and water supply in Kazakhstan, which were combined into a common problem "Development and implementation of rational systems for integrated use of groundwater for agricultural water supply, irrigation of pastures and irrigated feed production, creation of scientific and technical foundations for the utilization and use of wastewater from livestock complexes and-household wastewater from settlements for the production of feed." The scientific and technical foundations have been developed and a fundamentally new system of automated cultural grazing of cattle has been created, which has been tested and recommended for widespread implementation in various regions of the country.
In 2002, the Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation named after L.E.Tazhibaev was established on the basis of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering. At the time of formation, the staff of the department was only 9 people. During the formative years of the department, leading specialists, doctors and candidates of sciences were invited from other universities, and by 2007 the staff of the department had increased to 28 units. In the same year, a new department "Hydraulics and agricultural water supply" was separated from the department and created.
In the formative years, the department was headed by:
2001-2009 – Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Grigorievich
2009-2011 – Aulanbergenov Abdinabi Akhmetovich
2012-2014 – Tleukulov Almas Toktasynovich
2014-2017 – Kalybekova Yesenkul Myrzageldievna
2017-2018, 2020-2021 – Sarkynov Erbol
2018-2019 – Seytasanov Ibrahim Smatovich
2019-2020 – Aldiyarova Ainur Yesirkepovna
2021-2024 - Zhaparkulova Ermekkul Dukenovna

2024-Until now – Aldiyarova Ainur Yesirkepovna

The department has 9 specially equipped educational and scientific laboratories:

The material and technical support of the department meets the requirements for conducting the educational process and conducting research.
There is a situation center for advanced training and retraining of personnel of water management systems.

On the basis of the cooperation agreement between the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences and the Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, concluded on June 02, 2019, the Department of Water Resources and Land Reclamation is implementing the master's program of double-degree education "Water Resources Management using IT technologies".
This educational program is aimed at training highly qualified personnel for the water industry of Kazakhstan and improving the competitiveness of specialists in the labor market. 
The program allows undergraduates to master and develop knowledge and practical skills in the field of sustainable and integrated water resources management and modern water engineering. 
Students will improve their professional, intercultural, linguistic and interpersonal competencies. Tools to achieve these goals will include joint field research and practical training (both in Poland and Kazakhstan), distance learning, as well as the participation of invited scientists from European universities.
The dual degree program also contributes to improving the quality of educational services, the university's rating, and gaining international experience. The principle of the program is that undergraduates master certain disciplines at KazNAIU, and the rest at a partner university, with recognition of academic credits at both universities. Since 2019, 20 undergraduates of our university have been trained under this program and received master's degrees of the European standard.