Waterways Department was organized and founded in 1972 by combining the Dredging and River Conservancy sections of Department of Marine Administration, Ministry of Transport and Communication and parts of Hydrographic Surveying section of Port Corporation, Ministry of Transport and Communications.
In 1999, the Department was extended and reorganized as the Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems.
Directorate of Water resources & Improvement of River systems
၁၉၇၂ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ေရလမ္းထိန္းသိမ္းေရးညႊန္ၾကားမႈဦးစီးဌာနကို ပို႕ ေဆာင္ဆက္သြယ္ေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန၊
ေရေၾကာင္းပို႕ေဆာင္ေရးညႊန္ၾကားမႈဦးစီးဌာနလက္ေအာက္႐ွိေသာင္တူးဌာန၊ ျမစ္ေၾကာင္း႐ွင္းလင္းေရးဌာန
တို႕မွ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ဆိပ္ကမ္းေကာ္ပိုေရး႐ွင္းလက္ေအာက္႐ွိ တိုင္းတာေရးဌာနမွ ၀န္ထမ္း အခ်ိဳ႕ကုိစုစည္း
ေပါင္းစပ္ ဖြ႕ဲစည္းခဲ့ပါသည္။
၁၉၉၉ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုအသစ္ ျပင္ဆင္ေရးဆြဲၿပီး "ေရအရင္းအျမစ္ႏွင့္ျမစ္ေခ်ာင္းမ်ားဖံြ႕ ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရး
ေရးဦးစီးဌာန"ဟုေျပာင္းလဲ သတ္မွတ္ခဲ႕ပါသည္။