An introduction to the emerging branch of Hydro-informatics Engineering.The presentation tries to highlight the salient points of this new specialization which involve contribution from various engineering ,science and management disciplines for the single objective of optimizing the utilization of water or water power resources.Various soft computation tools and techniques are generally used to achieve this objective.That is why, the knowledge of the subjects as well as the techniques are required to become an expert or professional from this stream.

1. HYDRO-INFORMATICS
A BRANCH OF ENGINEERING WHICH DEALS WITH
WATER, WATER POWER AND INFORMATICS

2. INTRODUCTION
• ABNORMALITIES IN CLIMATIC
PATTERN
• LARGE SCALE URBANIZATION
• INCREASE IN POPULATION
• ADVANCEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY
• DEMAND FOR LUXURY
• NON-OPTIMAL UTILIZATION OF
WATER AND ENERGY RESOURCES
• UNCONTROLLED EXTRACTION OF
THE RESOURCES
• WASTAGE OR UNNECESSARY USE
OF RESOURCES
E F F E C TC A U S E

3. CASE-STUDIES
• “APPROXIMATELY 98% OF OUR WATER IS SALTY AND ONLY 2% IS FRESH. OF THAT 2%, ALMOST 70% IS
SNOW AND ICE, 30% IS GROUNDWATER, LESS THAN 0.5% IS SURFACE WATER (LAKES, RIVERS, ETC) AND
LESS THAN 0.05% IS IN THE ATMOSPHERE”.
• THE MAIN EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS IT “CAUSES POLAR ICE TO MELT INTO THE SEA, WHICH
TURNS FRESH WATER INTO SEA WATER, ALTHOUGH THIS HAS LITTLE DIRECT EFFECT ON WATER
SUPPLY” BUT AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES GET MINIMIZED.
• ANOTHER EFFECT OF THE ABNORMAL RISE IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE IS TO “INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF
WATER THAT THE ATMOSPHERE CAN HOLD” WHICH LEAD TO ”MORE AND HEAVIER RAINFALL WHEN THE
AIR COOLS”.
• IN A REPORT PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN, MORE RAINFALL MEANS MORE FRESH WATER RESOURCES
BUT MASSIVE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL LEADS TO RAPID MOVEMENT OF WATER FROM THE ATMOSPHERE
TO THE OCEANS AND THUS REDUCES THE SCOPE OF STORAGE AND UTILIZATION.
• AS A RESULT SCARCITY OF WATER TAKES PLACE.

4. CASE STUDIES
• EFFECTS OF WATER SCARCITY IS MASSIVE WITH RESPECT TO FOOD
PRODUCTION.
• ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE,
AGRICULTURE RENDERS ABOUT 70% OF GLOBAL WATER WITHDRAWALS
AND COMPETES WITH “DOMESTIC, INDUSTRIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
USES FOR A SCARCE WATER SUPPLY”.
• CHINA EXPERIENCES RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH IN RECENT DECADES,
BUT HAVE “ONLY 7% OF THE WORLD’S ARABLE LAND AVAILABLE TO
FEED 22% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION”
• LACK OF ASSESSMENT ABOUT THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE “ON
CHINA’S WATER RESOURCES AND AGRICULTURE AND THEREFORE
CHINA’S ABILITY TO FEED ITS PEOPLE” WILL DISTURB THE FOOD
SECURITY IN NEAR FUTURE.
• ACCORDING TO PIAO ET.AL.(NATURE,2010), WORK RELATED TO THE
IMPROVEMENT OF “REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS—ESPECIALLY OF
PRECIPITATION—AND DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE
MANAGED AND UNMANAGED RESPONSES OF CROPS TO CHANGES IN
CLIMATE, DISEASES, PESTS AND ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS” MUST BE
ENCOURAGED AND PRACTICED TO PREPARE AN OPTIMAL DISASTER
MANAGEMENTPLAN.

5. CASE STUDIES
• IN A REPORT AUTHORED BY DIEGO JUAN RODRIGUEZ AND
MARCELINO MADRIGAL(THE WATER BLOG,2014) THE AUTHORS
STRESSED THAT MORE THAN HALF OF THE GLOBAL POWER
UTILITY AND ENERGY COMPANIES HAVE EXPERIENCED “WATER-
RELATED BUSINESS IMPACTS”. WATER IS NOW A SUBSTANTIVE RISK
TO BUSINESS OPERATIONS FOR TWO THIRD OF THE COMPANIES
THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE STUDY.
• THE GLOBAL POPULATION HAS INCREASED TO 9 BILLION AND SO
IS THE COMPETITION FOR USE OF WATER AMONG THE DIFFERENT
SECTORS LIKE ENERGY, AGRICULTURE ,DOMESTIC, INDUSTRY ETC.
• IN THE SAME REPORT THE AUTHORS DESCRIBED ABOUT THE LACK
OF SUFFICIENT WATER RESOURCES IN SOUTH AFRICA WHICH
IMBIBED THE THERMAL POWER PLANTS INTO DRY COOLING
SYSTEMS THAT “COST MORE TO BUILD AND ARE LESS EFFICIENT
THAN WATER-COOLED SYSTEMS”.
• THE REPORT ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE CONDITION OF
CALIFORNIA’S HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATION IN 2012
WHEN THE POWER PRODUCTION WAS 38% LOWER THAN THE LAST
SUMMER DUE TO “REDUCED SNOWPACK AND LOW PRECIPITATION”
• AS A RESULT, "THE NEED FOR INTEGRATED ENERGY-WATER
PLANNING TO IDENTIFY AND REDUCE RISKS, MAXIMIZE BENEFITS
AND AVOID FINANCIAL LOSSES” BECOMES NECESSITY.

6. NEED OF THE HOUR
• OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF WATER/WATER POWER
• UTILIZATION AS PER REQUIREMENT
• INTELLIGENT ALLOCATION OF WATER/WATER
POWER
• MINIMIZATION OF UNCERTAINTY
• ANALYSIS OF IMPACTS
• REAL TIME MONITORING AND EARLY WARNING
SYSTEMS
• PREPARATION OF MITIGATION PROCEDURE
Development of
system for
communication
Application of
soft computation
tools
Utilization of the
knowledge
gained from the
application of
softcomputation

7. LEADS TO….
EXPERTISE IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF
HYDRO-INFORMATICS ENGINEERING
(HIE)
scarcity
water
soft-computation
communication
populationtechnology
BENEFICIARY BENEFICIARY
T O O L S A N D T E C H N I Q U E S
PROBLEM
RESOURCE
H I E

8. HYDRO-INFORMATICS ENGINEERING
• DECISION MAKING TOOLS
• PREDICTIVE MODELS
• STATISTICAL METHODS
• UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
• GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS Engineering knowledge

9. SUB-DOMAINS
STATISTICS ENGINEERING SOFT-
COMPUTATION
MANAGEMENT

10. STATISTICS
• PROBABILITY ANALYSIS
• RELIABILITY ANALYSIS
• DISTRIBUTION
FUNCTION
• CONTROL CHART
• GRAPH THEORY
• DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
• INDEX
• PREDICTIVE MODELS
• OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
• DECISION SCIENCE
Knowledge of the
following statistical
concepts are pre-
requisite for working
in the field of hydro-
informatics

11. ENGINEERING
• CIVIL
• (HYDROLOGY)
• MECHANICAL
• (HYDRAULIC, PIPE NETWORK)
• ELECTRICAL
• (HYDRO POWER, PUMPS)
• ELECTRONICS
• ( MONITORING SENSORS )
• COMMUNICATION
• (INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND
TECHNOLOGY(ICT)
• COMPUTER SCIENCE
• (PROGRAMMING, IMAGE
PROCESSING)
• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• (ICT)
• AGRICULTURE
• (IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT, AGRI-
MACHINERY)
• PRODUCTION
• (DECISION MAKING, AUTOMATION)
• INDUSTRIAL
• (OPERATION MANAGEMENT,
DECISION MAKING)
Engineers of
following depts.
can do research in
hydro-informatics

12. SOFT COMPUTATION
• MATLAB
• OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
• NATURE BASED ALGORITHMS
• GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
SYSTEM
Expertise in Tools
and Techniques
like the following
are required to
work in Hydro-
informatics
• MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING
TOOLS
• R
• NEURAL NETWORKS
• DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

13. MANAGEMENT
• OPERATION MANAGEMENT
• FINANCE
• IT
• SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Hydro-informatics
is all about
optimal
management
• DISASTER MANAGEMENT
• INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
• HUMAN RESOURCE
• MARKETING

14. JOURNALS
• JOURNAL OF HYDRO-INFORMATICS ENGINEERING.
• OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE IAHR-IWA-IAHS JOINT COMMITTEE
ON HYDRO-INFORMATICS
• PUBLISHED BY INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION(IWA)
• IMPACT FACTOR : 1.64
• MOST CITED PAPER FROM THE JOURNAL :
• NEURAL NETWORK RIVER FORECASTING WITH MULTI-OBJECTIVE FULLY
INFORMED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
• WATER
• OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ON WATER SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY, INCLUDING THE ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
OF WATER RESOURCES
• PUBLISHED BY MDPI
• IMPACT FACTOR :1.832(2016)
• MOST CITED PAPER FROM THE JOURNAL :
• ADVANCES IN MEMBRANE DISTILLATION FOR WATER DESALINATION AND
PURIFICATION APPLICATIONS
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15. JOURNALS
• JOURNAL OF HYDROGEOLOGY AND HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING (JHHE)
• PUBLISHES ALL THEMES OF HYDRO-INFORMATICS THAT INCLUDE: COMPUTATIONAL
HYDRAULICS, WATER USE AND DESALINATION, WATER QUALITY, WATER RESOURCES,
WASTE WATER TREATMENT, AQUIFER TESTS, SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT, HYDROLOGY MODELLING, STORM WATER PLANNING, MODELLING AND
MANAGEMENT, FLOODWAY ANALYSIS, ECOHYDROLOGY, HYDRO-INFORMATICS,
GROUND WATER QUALITY & ANALYSIS AND EROSION & SEDIMENTATION CONTROL.
• PUBLISHED BY SCITECHNOL.
• IMPACT FACTOR : NEW JOURNAL
• MOST CITED PAPER FROM THE JOURNAL :
• NUMERICAL MODELING OF TSUNAMI-LIKE SOLITARY WAVE IMPINGING AND OVERTOPPING A
SEAWALL THROUGH SPH SCHEMES BY CONSIDERING THE EFFECT OF ENTRAPPED AIR.
• WATER AND INFORMATICS
• EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS PRESENTATION. AIMS TO PUBLISH PAPERS ON
APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS AND DECISION MAKING ALGORITHMS IN WATER
RELATED PROBLEMS
• PUBLISHED BY PRIVITIUM
• IMPACT FACTOR :NEW JOURNAL
• MOST CITED PAPER FROM THE JOURNAL :
• 1ST ISSUE AWAITED
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16. BOOKS
FOUR BOOKS THAT GIVES AN IDEA ABOUT THE SCOPE OF HYDRO-INFORMATICS ENGINEERING
• PRACTICAL HYDROINFORMATICS: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND
TECHNOLOGICAL ...
• EDITED BY ROBERT J. ABRAHART, LINDA M. SEE, DIMITRI P. SOLOMATINE
• GOOD FOR ANALYSING THE CASE STUDIES IN HYDRO-INFORMATICS
• SPRINGER SCIENCE & BUSINESS MEDIA, 2008
• HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON HYDROINFORMATICS: TECHNOLOGIES,
THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS
• AUTHORED BY GASMELSEID, TAGELSIR MOHAMED
• GOOD FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF HYDRO-INFORMATICS IN
SOLVING WATER RELATED PROBLEMS
• IDEA GROUP INC (IGI), 2010
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17. BOOKS…CONTD.
FOUR BOOKS THAT GIVES AN IDEA ABOUT THE SCOPE OF HYDRO-INFORMATICS ENGINEERING
• HYDROINFORMATICS TOOLS FOR PLANNING, DESIGN, OPERATION AND REHABILITATION
OF SEWER SYSTEMS
• AUTHORED BY JIRI MARSALEK, CEDO MAKSIMOVIC, EVZEN ZEMAN, ROLAND PRICE
• GOOD FOR “SEWAGE SYSTEMS, STARTING WITH THEIR PLANNING AND THEN GOING
ON TO DISCUSS THEIR DESIGN, OPERATION AND REHABILITATION
• SPRINGER SCIENCE & BUSINESS MEDIA, 2013
• DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR INTEGRATED URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT:
• AUTHORED BY TIM FLETCHER, ANA DELETIC
• GOOD FOR LEARNING ABOUT “COLLECTION, VALIDATION, STORAGE, ASSESSMENT
AND UTILIZATION OF THE RELEVANT DATA” FOR INTEGRATED URBAN WATER
MANAGEMENT
• CRC PRESS, 2008
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18. GROUPS / ASSOCIATION
• INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION : HYDRO-
INFORMATICS SUB GROUP
• HYDROINFORMATICS CHAIR GROUP IN IHE, DELFT
• IAHR/IWA JOINT COMMITTEE ON HYDRO-
INFORMATICS
• LINKED IN GROUP : HYDRO-INFORMATICS
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19. COURSE
• MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY DEGREE
• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AGARTALA
• STRESSES ON : APPLICATIONS OF HYDRO-INFORMATICS IN
WATER-POWER
• DURATION : 2 YEARS
• ADMISSION THROUGH : CCMT ON THE BASIS OF GATE SCORE
• LOCATION : TRIPURA, INDIA
• GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE (GECT)
• STRESSES ON : PREDICTION AND MANAGEMENT OF BOTH THE
QUALITY AND THE QUANTITY OF WATER IN BOTH
UNDERGROUND (AQUIFERS) AND ABOVE GROUND (LAKES,
RIVERS, AND STREAMS) RESOURCES
• DURATION : 2 YEARS
• ADMISSION THROUGH : CCMT ON THE BASIS OF GATE SCORE
• LOCATION : THRISSUR, KERALA
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20. COURSE …CONTD.
• ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTER'S DEGREE IN HYDRO-INFORMATICS AND WATER
MANAGEMENT (EUROAQUAE)
• EUROAQUAE CONSORTIUM COORDINATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NICE-SOPHIA
ANTIPOLIS
• STRESSES ON : APPLICATIONS OF HYDRO-INFORMATICS IN SMART WATER
MANAGEMENT
• DURATION : 2 YEARS
• ADMISSION THROUGH : DIRECT ENTRY BY APPLICATION
• LOCATION : DIFFERENT CITIES IN EUROPE
• MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE
• NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY
• STRESSES ON : QUANTITATIVE TRAINING IN HYDROLOGY, HYDRAULICS AND
MODERN INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) WITHIN THE
CONTEXT OF WATER MANAGEMENT
• DURATION : 1 YEARS
• ADMISSION THROUGH : DIRECT ENTRY BY APPLICATION BUT A REQUIREMENT
OF IELTS SCORE OF 6.5 OVERALL (WITH A MINIMUM OF 6.0 IN ALL SUB-
SKILLS) IS ESSENTIAL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
• LOCATION : NEW CASTLE, UNITED KINGDOM
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21. COURSE …CONTD.
• MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE
• THE INTERNATIONAL MASTERS IN HYDRO-
INFORMATICS (IMHI) IS A JOINT EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMME OF UNESCO-IHE, DELFT, THE
NETHERLANDS AND HOHAI UNIVERSITY (HU),
NANJING, CHINA
• STRESSES ON : “SOLVE PROBLEMS OF
HYDRAULICS, HYDROLOGY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FOR BETTER
WATER MANAGEMENT USING SIMULATION
MODELLING AND OTHER TOOLS”
• DURATION : 1 YEAR 6 MONTHS
• ADMISSION THROUGH : DIRECT ENTRY BY
APPLICATION
• LOCATION : NANJING, CHINA
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22. JOBS
• AS A CONSULTANT : EXAMPLE : HYDROINFORMATICS INSTITUTE,
SINGAPORE. (FOR MORE SUCH JOBS VISIT : STARTUPJOBS.ASIA)
• AS AN AGRI-CONSULTANT : EXAMPLE : AGRICONSULTING, HYDRO
INFORMATICS SPECIALIST JOBS IN RWANDA ( FOR MORE SUCH JOBS
AJOBSRWANDA.BLOGSPOT.IN)
• AS A RESEARCHER : EXAMPLE : PHD STUDENTSHIP IN UNIVERSITIES OF
BRIGHTON AND DURHAM, USA (FOR MORE SUCH JOBS VISIT :IAHR.ORG)
• AS A LECTURER : EXAMPLE : LECTURER IN CIVIL ENGINEERING (EDUCATION
AND RESEARCH), UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK (FOR MORE SUCH JOBS VISIT
:IAHR.ORG)
• AS AN ENGINEER : EXAMPLE : MID/SENIOR LEVEL WATER RESOURCES
ENGINEER, PORTLAND, OR, USA (FOR MORE SUCH JOBS VISIT :IAHR.ORG)
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23. THANK YOU

24. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• FOR CASE STUDY : HOW WILL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON FRESH WATER SECURITY?
• HTTPS://WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM/ENVIRONMENT/2012/NOV/30/CLIMATE-CHANGE-WATER
• FOR CASE STUDY : THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WATER RESOURCES AND AGRICULTURE IN CHINA
• HTTPS://WWW.NATURE.COM/NATURE/JOURNAL/V467/N7311/FULL/NATURE09364.HTML
• FOR CASE STUDY : WATER SCARCITY AND AGRICULTURE
• HTTPS://THEWATERPROJECT.ORG/WATER-SCARCITY/WATER-SCARCITY-AND-AGRICULTURE
• FOR CASE STUDY : 4 WAYS WATER SHORTAGES ARE HARMING ENERGY PRODUCTION
• HTTP://BLOGS.WORLDBANK.ORG/WATER/4-WAYS-WATER-SHORTAGES-ARE-HARMING-ENERGY-
PRODUCTION
• FOR CLIP ARTS : WATER CLIP ARTS
• HTTPS://OPENCLIPART.ORG/TAGS/WATER