Background
The IWA Digital Water Programme (DWP) acts as a catalyst for innovation, knowledge and best practice. It provides a platform to share experiences, promotes leadership in transitioning to digital water solutions and consolidates lessons to guide utilities during their digital transformation.
To ensure wider engagement with IWA members on digital water, the DWP is encouraging the formation of regional and topical subgroups where members can share experiences, identify gaps, and come up with efficient solutions on a specific topic.
The IWA Digital Water India subgroup has a regional emphasis where members can exchange knowledge, pinpoint gaps, and develop effective digital solutions for India. The proposed goal of the sub-group is to use digital tools and technologies, such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, digital twins, etc., to address problems in the water sector throughout India (and potentially South-East Asia as well). To encourage the Digital Water Revolution in India, the sub-group will also draw on the worldwide IWA knowledge base and expertise.
Objectives of IWA Digital Water India Subgroup
The subgroup aims to:
- Drive digital transformation in the water sector across India by leveraging digital technologies, data analytics, and smart solutions.
- Support water utilities, governmental bodies, and private sectors in optimising water resource management, improving efficiency, and promoting sustainability.
- Identify key areas for discussion including the adoption of IoT, AI, and cloud-based solutions for water distribution, water leakage, wastewater management, and pollution control, aligned with the global agenda of water sustainability and resilience.
Expected outcomes
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Expected outputs
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- Identifying solutions for the challenges faced across the water sector in India (which can be extended to South-East Asia).
- Drive the development of Knowledge Resources for the Digital Water Ecosystem in India/South East Asia.
- Exploration of best practices of digitalisation in Water Sector in India through the understanding of the potential problems and finding technology-based solutions.
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- Webinars, blogs, meetings, white papers
- Water policy briefs
- Creation of Water-Informatics Lab, Book series
- Development of predictive and Machine Learning (ML) models for multiple operations in water management.
- Design of data-driven models for Rural-Water Distribution Management
- Development of analytics-driven management for water mediation and analysing sustainability metrics.
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Steering Group
- Dr Jyoti Gautam (Chair) – Associate Professor Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT)
- Professor Amlan Chakrabarti (Co-Chair) – Professor and Director, A.K. Choudhury School of IT, University of Calcutta & Adj. Prof. IIIT, Delhi
- Dola Gupta (Secretary) – DST Women Scientist, University of Calcutta, Research Institute
- Dr Vijaysai Prasad – Head, Water Technology Centre, Water & Effluent Treatment L&T
- P Ganesh Kumar – Head, R&D, Water Technology Centre, Water & Effluent Treatment, L&T
- Prateek Khatri – Siemens Consulting Companies
- Sham Chaudhari – Sales Director, India/South-Asia at Xylem for the Digital Water Sub-group Consulting Companies
- Sudeshna Chodhury – TCS Software and Communication Technologies, Sustainability
- Achyut Chandra – HCL Software and Communication Technologies
- Seshagiri Rao Ambati – Professor, Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE)
- R.L. Vijayakumar – AGM/NRW Expert, Ceinsys Tech Ltd.
- Anand Jalakam – Director, Jalakam Solutions Private Limited
- Avishek Chaudhuri – Water Industry Advisor, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
- Gaurav Bhatt – Water Lead – India, ARUP
- Giridharan Sengaiah – Cofounder and COO, SmartTerra Urban Water Management Pvt Ltd.
- Aditya Sharma – Founder-CEO, Sparrow Analytics Pvt Ltd.
IWA Secretariat
How to get involved?
Are you interested in joining the subgroup? Join the LinkedIn group and the WhatsApp group.
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