BlueWater

Tutorials:

• Tutorial on Promoting Sustainable Water Usage and Management With Water Data, AI and Policy, in conjunction with 6th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (10th ACM IKDD CODS and 28th COMAD) (CODS-COMAD 2023), Bihu Suchetana, Biplav Srivastava, Hari Prabhat Gupta, and Manabendra Saharia, January 4–7, 2023, Mumbai, India. [Water Tutorial]

• Tutorial on AI for Data-Driven Decisions in Water Management, in conjunction with 31st Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), Biplav Srivastava, Sandeep Sandha, San Francisco, USA, Feb 2017. 

Apps / tools

1. Water Advisor. A chat based advisor to taking decisions related to water taking into account water pollution.  Demo video (Sep 2017)

2. Water watch app. (Google play store, code on Github, demo Video). (Sep 2017)

3. GangaWatch app for water pollution information on Google playstore. See video and description in a blog.(Jan 2016)

4. Neer Bandhu (Water Friend) app on Google playstore. See description here in the blog.(Nov 2015)

5. CreekWatch app for Apple devices by IBM Research, our predecessor and akin to Neer Bandhu. See site. (2010-)

Press

1. [March 2018,  Opflow India] Leverage the Power of Data and Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Water Quality Management, by Bihu Suchetana 

Talks

1. Environmental Decision Support in the Presence of Piece-Meal Water Pollution Data: Much is Possible Despite Odds, 2016 US-China Forum: Water and Urban Development, University of Chicago, Oct 14, 2016. Video available on Youtube. Details: http://ime.uchicago.edu/events/4633/

   1. 1. ACM DSP talk at IIT-BHU, India, Sep 20, 2016

      2. At Conference on Conservation, Computation, & Criminology (C4), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 6-8, 2016. Video available on Youtube.

2. Blue Water at CSE Workshop on Mainstreaming Citywide Sanitation: Opportunities and Challenges in Excreta Management during 4-5 April, 2016 at IHC, New Delhi, India. Slides are on site as well as on slideshare.(April 2016).

3. Talk on Data management practices and multi-sensor data fusion in water management, at IIT Kharagur (March 2016) and IIT Madras (Jan 2016.)

Blogs

1. [1 August 2016,  Water pollution data] Ganga Watch and Blue Water Revisited – Collected Data is Now Externally Available, As-is, by Biplav Srivastava

2. [18 January 2016, Water usage app] Ganga Watch – An App for Using Water Data in Every Day Decisions, by Biplav Srivastava

3. [18 January 2016,  App details] Ganga Watch: Mobile Computing to Monitor River Water Quality in India, by Sandeep Sandha

4. [20 December 2015, Water data collection] Two Days on Yamuna – Collecting Water Pollution Data is Both Simple and Complex,, by Biplav Srivastava

5. [3 December 2015, Water crowd source app] Neer Bandhu, for Water Friends, by Biplav Srivastava

6. [September 2015, Randomized inspection] Can Game Theory Help Clean the Ganga? Randomized Inspection is a Case in Point, Benjamin Ford, Biplav Srivastava*, Milind Tambe. At data.gov.in's envivonment community.

Data

1. From GangaWatch, also as REST from here.

2. From Neer Bandhu (Water Friend), also available from the mobile app. Find here.

3. From Creek Watch, also available from web site. Find here.

Papers

1. Biplav Srivastava, “Regulation intelligence (RIWater ): AI for promoting better understanding of water’s regulatory context for informed decision making,” in American Geophysical Union, 2023.

2. Bihu Suchetana, Vaishnavi Anand, Khushi Porwal and Biplav Srivastava, Understanding and Working With Large Language Models (LLMs) for Water Decision Support in India, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA, 2023 [Water, AI]

3. Enforcing Environmental Compliance through Strategically Randomized Factory Inspections, Benjamin Ford, Matthew Brown, Amulya Yadav, Amandeep Singh, Arunesh Sinha, Biplav Srivastava, Christopher Kiekintveld, Milind Tambe, Artificial Intelligence and Conservation, Cambridge University Press, 2019

4. Jason Ellis, Biplav Srivastava, Rachel Bellamy and Andy Aaron, Water Advisor - A Data-Driven, Multi-Modal, Contextual Assistant to Help with Water Usage Decisions, AAAI 2018. [Demonstration paper].

5. An Open, Multi-Sensor, Dataset of Water Pollution of Ganga Basin and its Application to Understand Impact of Large Religious Gathering, Biplav Srivastava, Sandeep Sandha, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Sukanya Randhawa, Viral Kapoor, Anmol Agrawal On Arxiv at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05626, December, 2016.

6. The GangaWatch Mobile App to Enable Usage of Water Data in Every Day Decisions Integrating Historical and Real-time Sensing Data, Sandeep Sandha, Biplav Srivastava, Sukanya Randhawa, Demo paper. On Arxiv at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08212, January 2017.

7. A multi-sensor process for in-situ monitoring of water pollution in rivers or lakes for high-resolution quantitative and qualitative water quality data, Sukanya Randhawa, Sandeep S Sandha and Biplav Srivastava, 14th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2016), August 2016.

8. The GangaWatch App and BlueWater Platform to Enable Usage of Water Data in India in Everyday Decisions Integrating Historical and Real-time Sensing Data,

9. Sandeep S. Sandha, Sukanya Randhawa, and Biplav Srivastava, Data Flow: Grand Challenges in Water Systems Modeling, Data Management, and Integration, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, May 9-10, 2016.

10. Protecting the Nectar of the Ganga River through Game-Theoretic Factory Inspections, B. Ford, A. Yadav, A. Singh, M. Brown, A. Sinha, B. Srivastava, C. Kiekintveld, M. Tambe, 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Sevilla, Spain, June 1-3, 2016.

11. Blue Water: A Common Platform to Put Water Quality Data in India to Productive Use by Integrating Historical and Real-time Sensing Data, Sandeep S Sandha, Sukanya Randhawa and Biplav Srivastava, IBM Research Report RI15002, 2015.