For effective, sustainable management use a digital water information system


Whether for home, agricultural, or industrial uses, water is a vital resource that we all need in our everyday lives. Most of us are either oblivious of or ignore the fact that every product we use has a water footprint. The worth of an asset frequently does not equal the value of the water needed to create it.
Making an ecosystem that attempts to educate stakeholders about their water footprint and the importance of water is crucial to effective water management. It is crucial to determine the worth of each object based on how much water was needed to create it.
Standard water management schema are necessary for greater water security, water-sharing based data-driven decisions to minimize obstacles and cross-border disputes, and water management at the national, state, district, or individual level. This makes the creation of a more sophisticated and standardized technical system necessary for a better comprehension of the resource and its management for more equal resource allocation and overall resource planning.
The Indian government founded the National Water Informatics Centre (NWIC) to maintain a single-source comprehensive database of water resources data because they understood the value of high-quality research and accurate data.
Making informed decisions requires the use of scientific facts. In order to effectively manage and sustainably develop the nation's water resources, a specialized central organization was founded. Its mission is to gather, compile, maintain, update, and provide value-added products and services to all stakeholders.
The purpose of NWIC is to use the Water Information Management System to gather data in a variety of formats from different organizations and state authorities (WIMS). In order to share the information with the public via the India-Water Resources Information System (India-WRIS) platform, it also wants to create a new database and organize the data in a standardized GIS format.
To perform proper research, convert data into conclusive results, and determine the asset's value using data-driven evidence, structured data sets are necessary. A variety of data sets, including historical and real-time time-series data for rainfall, water level, flow, water quality, hydro-meteorological parameters, and other relevant issues, have been added to the India-WRIS database.
A comprehensive strategy for addressing problems related to effective water resource management will be made possible by detailed mapping of the available water resources. India-WRIS also offers data on artificial recharge structures, snow glacier data, land-use and land-cover information, and mapping of irrigation projects in addition to a wealth of information on factors linked to surface and groundwater.
In order to provide a thorough picture of water resource situations, India-WRIS provides tools for building value-added maps utilizing multilayer stacking of geographic information system (GIS) databases. Additionally, it offers a set of tools for entering information about irrigation projects and the nation's current artificial recharge systems.
WIMS is a platform for data collecting that collects field data manually and through telemetric devices from numerous organizations and agencies. All stakeholders can then access this data after it has been organized and updated on the India-WRIS platform.
Furthermore, since data from WIMS's flood forecast module is updated in real-time, departmental officials and agencies can alert first responders like the National Disaster Management Authority and district administration to impending floods in advance and provide them with the information they need to act quickly.
Through the active collection and dissemination of water resources data by WIMS and the India-WRIS platform, NWIC seeks to inform and include every stakeholder and citizen in the process of integrated water management in the nation.
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