Within the research environment of the Community of Madrid, there are research groups belonging to different public organisms from several areas of knowledge that base their research on water resources quality and waste water treatment and management. In addition to the aforementioned five groups, there is also TRAGUA (Water Treatment and Reuse), formed by 122 researchers, mainly doctors.

The main scientific areas from which this research is approached are: Contamination, Protection Technologies, Ecotoxicoloty, Biotechnology, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Agriculture, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles and Ecology.

This Institute must incorporate all the groups from the centres dedicated to water I+D in the Community of Madrid, the 20 laboratories of the Laboratory Network of the Madri+d System with equipments ready to be used, 50 water supply companies, 20 water-treatment companies, 8 equipment supply companies, 7 engineering companies and other centers or companies that could make interesting contributions.