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Real-time Water Dashboard: Intersecting Science and Digital Platforms to Deliver Big Data for Flood Management

2 October 2018
The Real-time Water Dashboard offers features that are not only useful, but lifesaving, too. These include hydrological, hydrodynamic modeling and flood forecasting, early warning against floods, and river basin management. The dashboard provides data that can help us look at vulnerability under…

Data Clearing House for IWRM

2 October 2018
Recent improvements in GIS and remote sensing technology has made spatial data widely available. These data are huge, complex, and wide spread. A centralized library or a common platform can help manage and analyze these data to see their patterns, trends and associations.

Mahaweli System Daily Water Balance Model Using RiverWare in Sri Lanka

2 October 2018
This model aims to ensure the adequacy of water for planned inter and trans basin transfers without affecting existing water users. It aims to enhance water management and provide more precise control of water flows throughout the system.

Opening Remarks

2 October 2018
Opening remarks by ADB Vice-President Bambang Susantono at the Asia Water Forum 2018 on 2 October 2018, ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines

Evolving thinking on Agricultural Water Productivity: Objectives, Concepts and Contexts for Effective Water Conservation

2 October 2018
Evolving thinking on Agricultural Water Productivity: Objectives, Concepts and Contexts for Effective Water Conservation

Variability of Field Scale Water Productivity in Different Crops on Policy

2 October 2018
Variability of Field Scale Water Productivity in Different Crops on Policy

Monitoring water productivity of investments in agriculture

2 October 2018
Monitoring water productivity of investments in agriculture

Value of Remote Monitoring Support for Local Desalination Plant Operation

2 October 2018
Pacific atolls suffer from severely limited fresh water resources. Although desalination was introduced in these areas since the 1980s, only a few have been successful. This presentation shares learnings from the Ebeye Water Supply and Sanitation Project that uses remote monitoring of desalination…

Artificial Recharge as a Solution for Water Shortage

2 October 2018
Artificial recharge can increase groundwater levels and help restore ecological conditions. It can be a secure water supply resource for urban areas. It can help solve drinking water shortage problems. This presentation shares lessons from a pilot articifical recharge project in the People's…

Increasing Water Supply by Reducing Losses

2 October 2018
To effectively increase water supply, leakage reduction, not capacity production, must be prioritized. By reducing water losses, we can ensure efficient resource utilization, efficient utility management, enhanced customer satisfaction, and postponement of capital-intensive additions to capacity…