1 - MoWR - Overview of HP-III Workshop-15th Sep 2014

RELIABLE, TIMELY, QUALITY, CONSISTENT, PUBLIC DATA

Avanish Kant

Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

Hydrology Project Phase – III

Approach towards Integrated Water Resources Management

“India Water Resources Management Programme: Hydrology Project”

www.indiawrm.org

HYDROLOGY PROJECT – the journey so far

(1995-2003) Hydrology Project-I (HP-I)

was taken up to develop Hydrological

Information System (HIS) for

collecting hydrological,

meteorological, water quality data.

(2006-2014) HP-II was taken up to

extend and promote the use of

Hydrological Information system

(HIS) developed under HP-I by all

potential users concerned with the

Water Resources Planning and

Management, both in public and

private, thereby contributing to

improve productivity and cost

effectiveness of water related

investments.

INDIA

HP-1 States

New States

Map not to scale

Highlights of Journey From HP-I to HP-II

From Manual Data Collection ------ Real Time Data Acquisition

System

From Desktop Data Management ------ Web-based Data

Management

Collating Data into Analyzed Information for Decision Making

(DSS Planning, HDA, PDS)

Up gradation to real time flood forecasting and reservoir operation systems

(RTDSS & RTSF & ROS )

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Hydrological Information System

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Key Achievements under HP-II

1. Upgradation/ strengthening of Hydrological Information System (HIS)

A. Construction of Data Centres

B. Strengthening of

meteorological stations

Sl No. Description

1 Manual FCS, Raingauges and SRRG

2 Digital Raingauges and AWS without

telemetry

3 Automatic Weather Station (AWS) with

telemetry

4 Digital Rain Gauges (DRG) with

telemetry

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Key Achievements under HP-II

C. Strengthening of hydrological stations

D. Strengthening of Groundwater Monitoring

Water Level Recorder

Hydrological Equipment

1 Automatic water level recorder -

shaft encoder type/Bubbler/RADAR

2 Current Meter

3 ADCP

Ground Water

1 DWLR without telemetry

2 DWLR with telemetry

Digital GW Recorder

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Key Achievements under HP-II

E. Strengthening of Water Quality stations

Sl. N

Water Quality monitoring stations

1 Real time Water quality Stations in Ganga

and Yamuna by CPCB (10 Parameters)

2 Real time Water quality Stations by CWC

(6 parameters)

Construction & establishment of

Laboratories

3 Level 2+

4 Level 2

5 Level 1

Achievements under HP-II

E. Development of Web-based Data Management System

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Key Achievements under HP-II

A. Hydrological Design Aids (HDA)

– The tool facilitates and expedites the hydrological design of infrastructure and provides uniform approaches

2. River Basin Planning and Management Tools

i. Surface water planning for investments and inter-sectoral water allocation

ii. Integrated operation of reservoirs for flood and irrigation management.

iii. Conjunctive water use planning for surface and groundwater use

iv. Drought monitoring and management v. Water quality management

B. Decision Support System (DSS) for Water Resources Planning and Management

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Key Achievements under HP-II

C. Stream Flow Forecasting and Reservoir Operation Systems for Flood Management

Bhakra – Beas Basin

Upper Krishna & Bhima Basin

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Key Achievements under HP-II

3. Groundwater Management (Aquifer Mapping)

Details Area (sq km)

Baswa-Bandikui Watershed, Dausa District,

Rajasthan – I – AQRAJ

598

Maner-Khagaul Area, Patna Dist, Bihar II – AQBHR 521

Watershed Nagpur district, Maharashtra - III –

AQMAH

360

Parts of Tumkur District, Karnataka - IV – AQKAR 376

Lower Vellar, Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu - V –

AQTND

344

Part of Thar Desert, Jaisalmar District, Rajasthan. -

VI – AQDRT

675

• 6 pilot projects of aquifer mapping was carried out to develop the framework for large scale mapping.

• The projects piloted use of advance techniques including heliborne techniques for faster and accurate mapping of aquifers.

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Key Achievements under HP-II

4. Purpose Driven Studies (PDS)

• 39 specific studies have been undertaken across the Hydrology Project implementing agencies (supported by external consultancies or universities where needed)

• The studies includes: - groundwater management, - water quality issues, - reservoir sedimentation problems, and - improved water management practices to address crop water needs.

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India Water Resources Management Programme: Hydrology Project

• 9 States • 6 Central Agencies

HP-I

INDIA

On Going States

New States

Map not to scale

• 13 States • 8 Central Agencies

HP-II HP-III

Across All Indian States and UTs

HYDROLOGY PROJECT – Journey Ahead

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Objectives of India Water Resources Management Programme: Hydrology Project

Standardize Water Resources monitoring and information system for the country with uniform procedures and database.

Modernize water resources assessment at spatio-temporal scale for improved planning and management using physical and remote sensing based techniques.

Introduce country wide generic solutions for flood forecasting and water resources management.

Introduce site specific solutions for water resources planning and management.

Data Repositories

to store and serve both raw feed and

processed data (on Cloud Platform)

Telemetry

Dissemination Platforms

Crowd-sourced / Community Surveillance Data

Earth observation data access via suitable mechanisms (e.g. Internet, GeoNetCast)

Web Portals (e.g. integrated hydromet

visualization platforms)

Stakeholder Alerts

Soils

Canals

Wetlands

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Rivers

GIS and other datasets Data Rescue

Data Management & Modeling (for weather, hydrological,

inundation & other forecasts – short-

term and seasonal) Operational Control Rooms “Bottom-up” Data Acquisition System

Manual Monitoring Automated Monitoring Radars

Interaction with other Knowledge Base and Analytical Systems

“Top-Down” Data Acquisition System

Satellite Earth Observation

Vision for National Water information Center

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Components under HP-III

Component 1: Upgrading and extension of Ground based Water Resources Monitoring System (WRMS)

• Strengthening of National water information center through following. • Modernize monitoring (including real time) system of Water resources

including: • Weather: Automatic Weather Stations , rainfall and Snow gauges. • Rivers: Stage/discharge, water quality • Groundwater: Water levels, water quality • Reservoir/tanks: Water level, gate position, outflow and spillways • Water use: irrigation canal system monitoring including canal level,

discharge, gate position and canal roster • Water quality for both groundwater and surface water in problem areas. • Sedimentation load monitoring and sedimentation survey in reservoirs.

• Introduce Community based and mobile based monitoring in particular for small streams, groundwater and water bodies.

• Digitize historical water resources information including water quality and water quantity data.

• Upgrade centralized and web-based data storage management and dissemination system including mobile applications for data entry.

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Components under HP-III

Component 2: Development of spatiotemporal, Information and Knowledge Services and Products

Upgrade existing IndiaWRIS or National water information centre with following information. • Development of DEM for the entire country for improved

flood mapping and other planning: • High resolution such as LIDAR surveys for floodplains,

and flood risk maps. • High resolution remote sensing imageries and other

supplementary information to develop DEM for other areas.

• Develop spatial River Basin information system based on historical data/map/imageries including: • Existing water bodies and their usage. • Canal system network • Landuse and performance of irrigation systems • Inventories of water pollution.

Khartoum

Asyut

Luxor

Nasir Reservoir

Kassala

Wad MadaniKusti

Malakal

Tana Lake

E G Y P T

S U D A N

S O U T H S U D A NE R I T R E A

E T H I O P I AAddis Ababa

Asmara

Cairo

JubaGonder

Bahir Dar

Jimma

GDP (million $/sq.km.)Data source: NOAA, 2006

Country boundaryMajor river

Capital city

Lake/Sea

E N T R OEastern Nile Technical

Regional Office

0 - 0.5

2 - 1

2 - 3

4 - 5

6 - 10

11 - 25

26 - 50

51 - 100

101 - 150

151 - 1,194

Monthly Blue Nile Flows at Khartoum

Annual Blue Nile Flows at Khartoum

Blue Nile Sub-Basin

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Components under HP-III

Component 2: Spatiotemporal, Information and Knowledge Services and Products

• Using temporal remote sensing based information to update spatial water resources assessment for entire country including: • Pattern of water storage in water bodies. • Precipitation, snow melt, soil moisture, land use,

actual evapotranspiration and soil moisture • Web-based runoff estimates using various

procedures/techniques. • Monitoring floods, risk and drought. • Monitoring performance of canal irrigation

systems. • Water logging and salinity

• Develop a web-based hydrological modelling system for the entire country.

• Improve or identify sets of climate forecast systems (in addition to IMD).

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Components under HP-III

Component 3: Tools for planning, design, operation and Management of Water Resources system

• Develop generic Flood forecasting models based on rainfall runoff modelling for key locations in entire country.

• Develop river basin and reservoir operation systems for specific river basins for IWRM: daily and seasonal planning.

• Develop canal operation and scheduling systems using physical and remote sensing based systems.

• Issue based studies: Develop detailed information system, models/ assessment tools for site specific issues.

• Introduce Hydrological Design Aids (HDA) to all State SW agencies in order to improve current design practices of water resources infrastructure.

• Support the shift from “Groundwater Development” to “Groundwater Management” under the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017)

• Introduce tools for the assessment of potential impacts of future climate changes and land use changes on water resources availability, design floods and droughts through pilot studies.

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Components under HP-III

Component 4: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building

• Establishment of a permanent WRIS Coordination Secretariat. • Establishment of the National Water Informatics Center, aimed at

generating, organizing and providing an up-to-date water database in the public domain with allied themes, and developing value added Information and Knowledge products and services for Integrated Water Resources Management.

• Specialized training and international exchange programs for various HIS levels, domestic study tours and international study tours, cross learning from participating States, etc;

• Provide Training-of-Trainer (ToT) courses and develop training programs for central agencies (NWA, CGWB, CWPRS, IMD and NIH).

• Protocol in action for data sharing and dissemination, joint data validation by Central and State Agencies, and data utilization for design, planning and management purposes.

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Thanks for your kind attention