Schedule

Promoting sustainable water usage and management with water data, AI and policy

Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)

IT landscape in water management

Water quality:

a. Surface & groundwater, drinking and wastewater quality: Introduction, relevant issues

b. Governmental regulations and policy development process: Background

Water quality data

a. Data sensing

b. Data communication

c. Existing databases- strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for database development and maintenance

d. Sources and ownership of data

e. Assessment of water quality from space and open datasets

Analytics using AI

a. AI methods

b. Use cases: Water pollution: trends, causal pathways, climate impacts

c. Policy analysis and development using AI: case studies and applications across India and US,

Use cases, tool development

a. Pollution control boards (central and state)

b. Groundwater monitoring boards

c. Water and sanitation boards of Tier I and II cities

d. Governmental agencies such as MoEF, Swachh Bharat Mission, Namami Gange, Jal Jeevan mission

e. Data-driven policy making

Call to action

a. Resources

b. Community: Use “AI in India” google group