Smart Water Management Task Force
Why focus on Smart Water Management?
Smart Water Management (SWM) uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and real-time data and responses as an integral part of the solution for water management challenges. SWM is becoming an area of increasing interest as governments from around the world integrate smart principles into their urban, regional and national strategies. The potential application of smart systems in water management is wide and includes solutions for water quality, water quantity, efficient irrigation, leaks, pressure and flow, floods, droughts and much more.
By applying SWM infrastructure such as sensors, smart meters, monitors, GIS and satellite mapping, and other data sharing tools to water management, real-time solutions can be implemented and broader networks can work together to reduce current water management challenges.
Objectives
The SWM Task Force is made up of selected IWRA members, supported by its Executive Board and Secretariat. Task Force members have the opportunity to:
• Contribute to IWRA’s Smart Water Management projects, by reviewing and providing advice to IWRA publications and activities.
• Provide their input and share insights on Smart Water Management with the broader water community.
• Interact and create meaningful networks and relationships among IWRA members and to contribute to projects and initiatives that otherwise would be inaccessible for individual professionals in the field.
The Smart Water Management Task Force has been involved in two main IWRA projects on Smart Water Management.
Task Force Bureau
- Kola Kareem (Chair)
- Henning Bjornlund (Australia)
- Sinafekesh Girma (Ethiopia)
- Neil Grigg (United States)
- Shaofeng Jia (China)
- Grisell Medina (Mexico)
- Paul Omondi Agwanda (Kenya)
- Fernando Ortiz Westendarp (Mexico)
- Pamela Rojas (Mexico)
- Mary Trudeau (Canada)
- Muhammad Wajid Ijaz (Pakistan)
