How to use ICTs to promote efficient water management?

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  1. Hello friends, This is Er.R. Ilangovan from Tamil Nadu State in India. Major portion of the Water is being used for Agriculture,Industry and Domestic. Among all Agriculture sector shares 70% of water in Tamil nadu.Inspite of going towards drip and sprinkler irrigation we have to take decision for stopping all chemical based farming system in to Organic Based farming in which 30% water saving is proved for all kind of crops. It has multi number of benefits such as increase in soil fertility,water conservation, sustainable farming practice,pollution less water, easy and debtless farming and healthy produce. So all the Government must take proven system Organic Farming for conserving water. Tamil Nadu farmers already in the process. We the Water Resources Department of Tamil nadu Government has already given training to 2.00 lakh farmers through various seminar, training and exposure visit. Our scientist cum Doctor MR.KODUMUDI NATARAJAN has invented Panchakavya ( cow dung cow urine, milk, curd and ghee ) Navakavya ( additional 4 ingredients) and Dasakavya (additional 5 ingredients ) and Bio Repellent etc for doing Organic farming. Under these system more than 60% expenditure for agriculture practice is saved. More than 10,000 farmers are now practicing the organic bio diversity farming methods.. All these farmers use 30% less water in all kind of crops. By stopping all chemeical inputs we can also reduce the golbal warming effects. The urban solid waste can also converted in to bio compost and linked to Organic Farmers. But few scientists says organic farming will reduce the yield.It is not correct statement. It has well proved by Tamil nadu Agricultural University Scientist Dr. Selvaraj from OOTY in Nilgris District that organic farming reduces water consumption,increase healthy yield and reduces the cost. We can show more than 1000 success field. But the Policy makers shall come forward to look these changes from field and guide the Governments to adopt the Changes as proactive aspects. This is my 15 years experience. Thank you and best wishes to all who work for water.

  2. Hi Juan, great to meet you on the forum. There are various ways of using ICTs to improve efficient water management. What is most crucial here is that the ICT tools are developed in collaboration with stakeholders and system operators. You can build a water smart grid using only mobile phones and IVRs. One of the successful examples is the Urban Water Information System built on a human powered smart grid using the above mentioned technology in India. I will be presenting a technical paper on how we created the smart grid and the resulting improvements in the existing water distribution system on the 9th. Would be happy to connect there.

  4. Hi Vikramsingh, here are some ICT projects that are related to efficient water management, for example, our research group is working on a platform that allows rural school students to learn about practices for water management . We have also worked on issues of e-learning and project planning with this community.

  5. Hi Juan, I read some where that the effective management of water is becoming more and more important as the world's supply of clean, fresh water is steadily decreasing. ICTs are an important enabler to help improve the management of this valuable natural resource. They could do so through advanced metering technologies which would for example allow for real-time communication of consumption patterns or through innovative demand forecasting technologies. I guess in our countries we are not using it at the rate it shld be..what is the senario in your part of the world?