The organisation focuses both on applied and basic research, and providing research on status, use and changes of aquatic ecosystems and their linkages in landscape and related environmental risks, waste and packaging waste management, as well as the professional support to water protection, flood prevention and management of waste and packaging waste, based on the research mentioned above.

To survey the current state and method of management of the infiltration areas and to test procedures that will improve or maintain water quality and usable quantity. Also, to formulate of procedures (local and general) for the wide-area management in the landscape and for the decision-making of the state administration for the targeted protection of this and other underground sources of drinking water.