The need to establish a National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM) started way back in 1990 as a result from Delft Hydraulic & Co findings. The report acknowledged the establishment of a research institute with a capability to conduct experimental simulation and numerical hydrodynamic analysis, ecological and morphological processes and its interaction with human activities. Subsequently, in the Cabinet Meeting on the 14th April 1993, approved the establishment of NAHRIM with the main objective as follows: