1. Impact assessment of KC Valley large water recycling project

Investigators: Prof. L.N. Rao and Prof. M. Sekhar (IISc Bangalore)

• The project is meant to treat 440 million liters of sewage water daily and recharge groundwater in the drought-prone districts of Kolar and Chikkaballapur in Karnataka, India.

• AMBHAS-1D groundwater model was implemented to estimate the recharge rates which showed a tenfold increase in daily recharge rates, resulting in a significant increase in the GW levels.

2. Rejuvenating Watershed for Agriculture Resilience through Innovative Development (REWARD)

Investigators: GoI, Watershed Development Department of Karnataka and IISc Bangalore 

• The program aims to adopt improved watershed management for increasing farmers’ resilience and support value chains

• Focussed on the hydrological assessment of watershed to provide input for Decision Support System 

3. Early warning system for flood prediction in the rivers of India

Investigators: GoI, CDAC, CWC, IISc Bangalore and PEC Chandigarh

• Focuses on development of a user-friendly and comprehensive early warning system for flood prediction (EWS-FP) on HPC platform and deploy geospatial portal for information dissemination.

• Contributed in flood prediction and sediment transport modelling using ANUGA model. 

4. Storage, transport and chemical evolution of infiltrating water in Critical Zone (CZ), western Himalayas

Investigators: Kashmir University, IISc Bangalore and Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmadabad)

• The broad aim of the proposal is to study the storage, transport and chemical evolution of infiltrating water in a mesoscale (481 km2) mountainous catchment (Firozpur, Upper Jhelum Basin) in western Himalayas and to establish Critical Zone Observatory (CZO).