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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…

Where to invest in the Indus Basin Irrigation System in Pakistan to improve land and water productivity Insights from a hierarchical model

2 October 2018
Where to invest in the Indus Basin Irrigation System in Pakistan to improve land and water productivity? Insights from a hierarchical model

Innovative Wastewater Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities

2 October 2018
Wastewater treatment infrastructure are often expensive and bulky. New technology now enables us to make localized wastewater treatment and reuse viable. This presentation illustrates how a private sector-initiated wasterwater treatment plant uses a biological process to treat water using less…

Wastewater Recovery in Three Countries

2 October 2018
Waste water facilities can become resource factories and help achieve seven of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the process. This presentation shares the opportunities of three countries-Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam-for wastewater treatment and resource recovery.

Aerobic Granular Sludge and MicroScreening New Compact Solutions for the Energy Neutral WWTP

2 October 2018
New technologies are now available that help make wastewater treatment more efficient and environment friendly. This presentation discusses two such technologies-MICROPUR® and NEREDA®. They are compact and energy sufficient technologies that can can potentially reduce energy consumption of…

RD and Innovative Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

2 October 2018
Water demand is projected to double globally by 2060. While demand management remains a key approach to ensure water sustainability, research and development (R&D) has also been working on securing a robust, sustainable, affordable and reliable water supply. R&D efforts are geared towards…

Nakhchivans Urban Water Overhaul

2 October 2018
Nakhchivan's population reaches about 400,000, and many of them live in the city with only two hours of water supply and no sewerage network. Most households use pit latrines while some have septic tanks that usually overflowed. This presentation shares how the government, through a joint venture,…

Realtime 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.