ICOLD leads the profession of dams engineers in setting standards and guidelines to ensure that dams are built and operated safely, efficiently, economically, and are environmentally sustainable and socially equitable. ICOLD wishes to be the world’s leading professional organization, dedicated to advancing the art and science of dam engineering and promoting the wise and sustainable development and managment of world’s water and hydropower resources. ICOLD is assisting nations to prepare to meet the challenges of the 21st century in the development and managment of the world’s water and hydropower resources.