The Water Resources Agency (WRA) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs is the accepted authority in Taiwan for flood and drought prevention and any necessary rescue operations. The WRA main focus is on the prevention of disasters to mitigate their impact when one occurs. Due to special characteristics of the climate and geology in Taiwan, hydrological events that exceed the design criteria are inevitable. This inevitability makes it a high importance to have a good preparation and a fast and flexible response when a disaster occurs. Preparation and response tasks involve fundamental science research and technology development in the social, scientific, and engineering fields. In the past, no systematic method has been available to review and evaluate these related studies. According, the application and the management of the preparation and response tasks becomes very difficult. In 2014, WRA completed a study on flood and drought mitigation and early warning research. This study seizes the opportunity to develop a structure and a method to review, classify, and evaluate the related WRA studies. The results provide (1) the assessment of studies in the past, (2) the issues needed to be solved, and (3) the suggestions for the future technology development.