Workshops and Meetings
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11 Dec
2023
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Training Program on Advanced Technologies for Water Resources Management held during 11-15 December, 2023
A training program on Advanced Technologies for Water Resources Management, sponsored by the National Water Academy (NWA) was held at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, between 11-15 December, 2023. A total of 24 participants are practicing Chief Engineers and Executive Engineers in the Central Water Commission (CWC). The workshop comprised lectures and tutorials by experts, covering topics of Introduction to Remote Sensing, GIS and DEM, drought and flood monitoring, Reservoir Operation, Applications to Reservoir Operation, River Basin Planning and Flood Risk Management, Urban Flooding: Introduction to urban hydrology, IDF relationships, Climate change impacts, and Internet of Things (IoT) Applications. They also visited KSNDMC (Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre) where the officials described the various types of disasters observed in Karnataka, their monitoring and early warning systems. Focusing specifically on the flood early warning systems and briefly on earthquakes and the importance of monitoring near dams. A live functioning of the Varuna Mitra helpline and instruments used to monitor disasters was demonstrated. The training program also includes a visit to the Smart Water grid laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering where they learned about Drag/Pressure loss reduction experiments, Digital Twin, SCADA (Supervision Control and Data Acquisition), and water quality experiments.
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09 Oct
2023
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Training Program on Engineering Hydrology held during 09-21 October, 2023
A training program on engineering hydrology, sponsored by Advanced Centre for Integrated Water Resources Management, was held at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, between 09-21 October, 2023. A total of 25 participants, who are practicing engineers working in the Water Resources Department, Government of Karnataka underwent training in Engineering Hydrology. The workshop comprised lectures and tutorials by experts, covering topics of the hydrologic cycle, India’s water resources, rainfall-runoff models, introduction to floods and droughts, precipitation, streamflow, use of remote sensing and GIS in streamflow estimation, abstractions from precipitation, hydrographs, flood routing, groundwater, operational groundwater recharge estimation in India based on GEC methodology, intensity-duration-frequency relationships, and streamflow measurement. All the participants visited Kanva Dam and Manchan Ebele Dam, where officials described the importance of the dam and the functioning of gate operations and other salient features of the dam. They also visited KSNDMC (Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre) where the officials described the various types of disasters observed in Karnataka, their monitoring and early warning systems. Focusing specifically on the flood early warning systems and briefly on earthquakes and the importance of monitoring near dams. A live functioning of the Varuna Mitra helpline and instruments used to monitor disasters was demonstrated.
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07 Aug
2023
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Monsson School on Urban Floods held during 07-12 August, 2023
Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore organized a one-week workshop titled “Monsoon School on Urban Floods” during 07 – 12 August, 2023. The Monsoon School was funded by the research project titled, “National Supercomputing Mission”, sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
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06 Feb
2023
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Training Program on Engineering Hydrology held during 06 – 17 February, 2023
A training program on engineering hydrology, sponsored by Advanced Centre for Integrated Water Resources Management, was held at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, between 06 – 17 February, 2023. A total of 25 participants, who are practicing engineers working in the Water Resources Department, Government of Karnataka underwent training in Engineering Hydrology. The workshop comprised lectures and tutorials by experts, covering topics of the hydrologic cycle, India’s water resources, rainfall-runoff models, introduction to floods and droughts, precipitation, streamflow, use of remote sensing and GIS in streamflow estimation, abstractions from precipitation, hydrographs, flood routing, groundwater, operational groundwater recharge estimation in India based on GEC methodology, intensity-duration-frequency relationships, and streamflow measurement. All the participants visited Kanva Dam where officials described the importance of the dam, the functioning of gate operations, and other salient features of the dam.
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02 Feb
2023
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14th meeting of the Project Appraisal and Monitoring Committee (PAMC) On Hydrology & Cryosphere
“Brainstorming Session on Urban Flood Management” A brainstorming session on the theme of urban flood management was held at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, Karnataka. 3rd February, 2023, under the purview of the Programme Appraisal and Monitoring Committee (PAMC) on Hydrology and Cryosphere. Venue: Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru DATE: 2nd and 3rd February 2023
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06 Dec
2022
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Discussion Meeting held on “Hydrology in the Anthropocene“
Discussion Meeting held on “Hydrology in the Anthropocene“, during December 6-9, 2022, in Hoysala Village Resort, Hassan. For a detailed report on the Discussion Meeting please click here.
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09 Sep
2022
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Discussion meeting with Prof Andrew Western, from the University of Melbourne, Australia @ ICWaR
The meeting focused on discussing various work carried out at ICWaR and the University of Melbourne.
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18 Mar
2021
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Third Advisory committee meeting of UFM project
The third annual Advisory Committee (AC) Meeting of the ongoing project, “Urban Flood Model for Bangalore” was held online on the 18th of March, 2021 from 10: 30 am -1:15 pm. The meeting was chaired by Shri S V Ranganath and was attended by the esteemed Advisory Committee of the project, senior academicians and officials from IISC, project stakeholder organizations and project partners. |
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20 Feb
2021
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Second Advisory committee meeting of UFM project
The second advisory committee meeting was held on 20th February 2020 in Interdisciplinary centre for water Research (ICWaR), IISc Bangalore in continuation with the first advisory committee meeting to discuss the progress of the work and to show how UFM team has implemented the suggestions given in the first advisory committee meeting. The major recommendations from the meeting include to extend the scope of the project to address a nationwide problem, implementation of the project at the ground level like multiplicity of agencies, uncertainty in prediction of extreme events and a pilot scheme needs to be designed. Standard Operating Procedure to be prepared before the monsoon season of 2020. Involvement of stake holders must be more in number, use of robotics and artificial intelligence through new companies to map blockages and to convert images posted into data. Improvement of recharge and better use of rainwater. The meeting also suggested to study the inter-linkages between the storm water management system and the sewerage system and implement the low impact development components to reduce flooding.
The minutes of the meeting are available here. |
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01 Dec
2019
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Discussion Meeting held on “Scale Issues in Hydrology”
Discussion Meeting held on “Scale Issues in Hydrology” during 1-3 Dec 2019, in Hoysala Village Resort, Hassan For a detailed report on the Discussion Meeting please click here. |
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23 Oct
2019
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Final Stakeholder Workshop for Upscaling Catchment Processses for Sustainable Water Management in Peninsular India (UPSCAPE)
Final Stakeholder Workshop for Upscaling Catchment Processses for Sustainable Water Management in Peninsular India (UPSCAPE) project held during 23rd October, 2019 |
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23 Sep
2019
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Towards-smart and Nutrition-sensitive Food Systems in India
Meeting held during 23rd to 25th September, 2019 on ” Towards-smart and Nutrition-sensitive Food Systems in India”
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05 Aug
2019
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Monsoon School held during 5th-10th August, 2019
Monsoon School held during 5th-10th August, 2019 Interdisciplinary Center for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore organised a one-week Monsoon School on Urban Floods during 05 – 10 August, 2019. The School was sponsored by the Knowledge Societies Division of UNESCO, Paris and is partially supported by the research project entitled, “Urban Flood Model for Bangalore“, funded by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. |
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02 Aug
2019
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National Workshop on Urban Climate Network
National Workshop on Urban Climate Network held on 2nd and 3rd August, 2019 This workshop was funded by DST and was held in ICWaR on 2nd and 3rd August, 2019. Concept Note |
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01 Aug
2019
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Project Steering Meeting for the project “National Supercomputing Mission Urban”
Project Steering Meeting for the project “National Supercomputing Mission Urban” held in ICWaR on 1st August, 2019
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23 Apr
2019
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Annual Progress Meet for the project “Urban Floods Model for Bangalore City”
Annual Progress Meet for the project “Urban Floods Model for Bangalore City” in “School of Ancient Wisdom” on 23rd April, 2019 The Urban flood Model Team from IISc and KSNDMC visited the School of Ancient Wisdom on 23rd April, 2019. A progress meet was being held at the venue where the project partners from BBMP, BDA, Geokno, Spatika, CStep and KSCST were present.
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12 Mar
2019
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Project Meet on Upscaling Catchment Processses for Sustainable Water Management in Peninsular India (UPSCAPE)
Project Meet on Upscaling Catchment Processses for Sustainable Water Management in Peninsular India (UPSCAPE) was held during 12-14 March, 2019 A project consortium meeting for the collaborative UPSCAPE project with CEH, ATREE, BGS, University of Dundee, ICRISAT etc., was conducted on 12th, 13th and 14th March, 2019 in ICWaR, IISc. |
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12 Feb
2019
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Advisory Committee Meeting on “Urban Floods Model for Bangalore City”
Advisory Committee Meeting on “Urban Floods Model for Bangalore City” was conducted on 12th February, 2019 The first Advisory Committee meeting on the project “Urban Flood Model for Bangalore City” was being held on 12th March, 2019, in ICWaR. The members of Advisory Committee for the project are: Sri SV Ranganath, Former Chief Secretary, GoK; Sri Manjunath Prasad, Commissioner, BBMP; Dr. RK Dave, Founder, RESPECT, Ex. Sr. Specialist (Policy and Plans), NDMA; Dr. Veena Srinivasan, Fellow convener-Centre for Environment and Development, ATREE; Prof. BS Murty, Professor, IIT Madras; Sri S Vishwanath, Water Conservation Expert, Founder and director, Biome Solutions.
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26 Nov
2018
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Project Meet on Accompanying The adaptation of irrigated agriculture to climate CHAnge (ATCHA)
Project Meet on Accompanying The adaptation of irrigated agriculture to climate CHAnge (ATCHA) was held during 26th November to 1st December, 2018 III ANR ATCHA project meeting was held in ICWaR on 26Nov-1Dec, 2018.
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12 Sep
2018
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Project Meet on Coupled Human and Natural System Environment (CHANSE)
Project Meet on Coupled Human and Natural System Environment (CHANSE) for water management under uncertainty in the Indo-Gangentic plain was held during12-14 September, 2018 A project review meeting in ICWAR for the collaborative project with Imperial College London, British Geological Survey, IIT Bombay, University of Exeter UK, ATREE etc., was conducted on 12th, 13th and 14th September, 2018.
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