Dixon H - UEI Day 1 - Kochi Jan18

1. Dr Harry Dixon
IUKWC Coordinator, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Improving freshwater monitoring frameworks and data for research and management
User Engagement Initiative
23 – 25 January 2018
Kochi, Kerala, India
Introduction to IUKWC
User Engagement Initiatives

2. Past IUKWC Activities - Science Workshops
Developing Hydro climatic services for
Water Security (Pune, India – Nov/Dec
2016)
• Focused on climate information and
tools for water management
• Identified knowledge/data gaps and
opportunities for future
collaboration
• Enhanced links between scientists
and end users of hydro-climatic
services
Improving freshwater monitoring
frameworks and data for research and
management (Stirling, UK - Jun 2017)
• Explored the state of the art in Earth
Observation (EO) capability and data
products for freshwater monitoring
• Considered practical applications, for
example to improve water quantity
and quality monitoring for water
supply, agriculture and aquaculture
• Identified synergies and
opportunities to develop and exploit
EO capability for effective early
warning of freshwaters
Workshop reports and briefs published on IUKWC website

3. Past IUKWC Activities - Researcher Exchange Schemes
India to UK
• Ecosystems Services Assessment
and its Implementation in UK
• Quantifying resilience of water
infrastructure to extreme
precipitation events in urban areas
• Understanding the Water, Energy
and Food Security Nexus to Design
Technology and Policy Approaches
for Enhanced Adaption to Climate
Change in India
UK to India
• Consolidating Learning about
Stakeholder Engagement across
Research and Practice: Toward the
Development of Hydro-climatic
Services
• The use of passive sampling
devices to improve the monitoring
of anthropogenic pollutants in river
catchments in India
Exchange reports and briefs published on IUKWC website

4. Past IUKWC Activities – Pump Priming Projects
Project 1
• Ways of optimising
new hydro-climatic
services for
stakeholders
Project 2
• Current opportunities
and challenges in
developing hydro-
climatic services in the
Himalayas
Project 3
• Synergistic utilisation
of EO-based soil
moisture
observations:
Applications in the UK
and India

5. However, it is not all about new
research ideas and collaborations!
While individual projects have got
better at engaging users during
their work, a significant divide
remains between research
scientists and stakeholders
Co-design
Co-delivery
Assisting adoption

6. “Knowledge exchange conferences targeted towards specific stakeholders to
present the latest in water security science and technology”
• Focus on translating the results of current and past India-UK science into
policy/operational practice;
• Designed to bring together scientists with policy makers, regulators or
commercial companies to support:
a) the translation and communication of India-UK water science to users;
b) the collection ideas from stakeholders about where research outputs
could be useful and further extensions or innovations which are needed to
translate research into operational/policy use.
User Engagement Initiatives

7. • Online Poll amongst IUKWC Open Network of India-UK Water Scientists
to:
Community Designed Events
1. Select theme;
2. Prioritise
target
stakeholders;
3. Identify
expected
outputs;
4. Help design
the agenda.

8. “Improving freshwater monitoring
frameworks and data for research and
management for Regional Water Policy and
Management Bodies”

9. Aim of the Workshop
To present outputs of joint India-UK water security research to state government
stakeholders from across southern Indian states, with a view to helping improve:
• Water supply and management monitoring;
• Water quality monitoring;
• Ecotourism and biodiversity monitoring;
• Water for agriculture & irrigation monitoring.

10. Day 1: Joint India-UK water security research - Talks by scientists and Q&A
Day 2: Stakeholder centric: Current freshwater monitoring methods used and
sector specific gaps perceived in different aspects of state level
freshwater monitoring
Case study visit: Vembanad Lake
Day 3: Participatory group & plenary discussions:
• Potential uses of previous UK-India joint research in the sector
• Impact of using new science
• Further collaboration between researchers and stakeholders
needed to enable the sector to make use of the science
• Best way to achieve the above needs
Workshop Structure

11. Any questions?

12. Dr Harry Dixon
IUKWC Coordinator, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Improving freshwater monitoring frameworks and data for research and management
User Engagement Initiative
23 – 25 January 2018
Kochi, Kerala, India
Introduction to Day 1

13. Aim: To demonstrate the outputs of previous joint India-UK water science
research
Format: Expert talks: 35mins/presenter (25 mins presentation +10 mins
discussion)
Four Sessions:
1. Water quality: Monitoring Pollution & Treatment
2. Irrigation - Monitoring availability and consumption
3. Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems & biodiversity
4. Water provision: monitoring supply & consumption
Demo of SALTMED Model
Workshop Dinner (Riviera Suites, 20.00-21.30)
Day 1

14. Joint India-UK Water Science – some background

15. Today’s focus is mainly on research funded jointly by the Natural
Environment Research Council and Ministry of Earth Sciences
However, others have funded/currently fund joint India-UK water
science collaborations including:

16. Natural Environment
Research Council
NERC fund excellent, peer-reviewed
environmental science that helps:
• understand and predict how our
planet works
• manage our environment
responsibly
• Meet society’s needs:
– Benefiting from natural resources
– Resilience to environmental hazards
– Managing environmental change

17. NERC Support
• 3,000 scientists and 1,000 PhD
students
• 1,000 research projects and 60
UK or international
programmes
• 55 universities and 20 research
institutes
• UK national capability: 4 ships,
7 aircraft, 6 polar stations, 6
data centres, 32 community
facilities

18. Partnership with MoES
• Scientific and technical collaboration in natural environmental
research including meteorology, climate variability and change,
oceanography, hydrology, natural hazards and biodiversity.
• Four joint programmes:
• Changing Water Cycle (2010-17)
• Sustaining Water Resources for Food, Energy & Ecosystem Services (2015-19)
• Drivers of Variability in the South Asian Monsoon (2013-17)
• Atmospheric Pollution & Human Health in an Indian Megacity (2014-20)

19. • India-UK Water Quality
programme funded by Dept. of
Science & Technology (DST),
NERC and the Engineering &
Physical Sciences Research
Council (ESPRC)
• 2017-2021
• Eight collaborative research
projects
India-UK Water Quality

20. ….and many more!
Extensive and growing
collaboration in water
science area

21. RCUK India Office – New Delhi

22. Water quality: Monitoring Pollution & Treatment
Session 1

23. Richard Allan
James Hutton Institute
Developing strategies for
delivery of sustainable safe
drinking water in rural
communities

24. Day 1: 23rd January 2018
Session 1: Water quality: Monitoring Pollution & Treatment
9.20 – 9.55: Gopal Krishan, National Institute of Hydrology,
Roorkee
Goundwater quality monitoring in northwest India
9.55 – 10.30: Gary Fones, University of Portsmouth
The use of passive sampling devices to improve the monitoring of
anthropogenic pollutants in river catchments in India
10.30 – 11.05: E.V. Ramasamy, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala
Microplastics: An Emerging contaminant - polluting water bodies -
less studied in India

25. Irrigation - Monitoring Availability and
Consumption
Session 2

26. Session 2: Irrigation - Monitoring availability and consumption
11.25 – 12.00: K.S.H.Prasad, IIT Roorkee
Deep Percolation from Water Intensive Irrigated Crops
12.00 – 12.35: Dr. Ragab, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Increasing Water Use Efficiency and Productivity using new
technologies
12.35 – 13.10: Mr. Sunil Kumar, National Water Academy
Emerging Concepts of Irrigation Water Management & its
Suitability in Southern Indian States
Day 1: 23rd January 2018

27. Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Session 3

28. Session 3: Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems & biodiversity
14.10 – 14.40: Anas Abdulaziz National Institute of Oceanography,
Kochi
Water quality of Vembanad Lake: A proposed case study using
remote sensing, modeling and in situ observations
14.40 – 15.15: Andrew Tyler, Stirling University
Exploiting EO capability to monitor status and change in the
quality of freshwater environments
15.15 – 15.50: Jagadish krishnaswamy, ATREE
Future of India's rivers: Challenges and Opportunities
Day 1: 23rd January 2018

29. Water Provision: Monitoring Supply &
Consumption
Session 4

30. Session 4: Water provision: monitoring supply & consumption
16.10 – 16.45: Prof. Mohan Kumar, IISC
Integrated Urban Water Management
16.45 – 17.20: Andrew Mckenzie, British Geological Survey
Groundwater and water resources – UK India collaborations under
the Newton Bhaba initiative.
Demo of SALTMED Model : 17.20 – 18.20
Dr. R. Ragab Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Day 1: 23rd January 2018

31. Promoting cooperation and collaboration between Indian and UK
water researchers, water policy-makers and water businesses
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