Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

e-Water: ICT Framework for Water Resource Management.

e-Research involves research collaborations of multidisciplinary of large or small scale nature among researchers and research organizations. It also refers to the research increasingly performed through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet, using very large data collections, terascale computing resources and high performance visualizations, where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an enabling technology and hence underpin all research collaborative projects. e-Research covers ICT applications in different areas such as Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Sustainable management of water resources is one of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. In terms of adequate drinking water supply, ever-increasing population, accompanied by urbanization, has affected one third of the world’s population. Both Australia and China have identified water resources issues as a priority research area and both countries have been conducting significant R&D activities. They have supported extensive national collaborative efforts to enable the future deployment of large scale water resources management systems. The sharing of data resources and the experience of managing water resources among practitioners will be invaluable in a collaborative effort to solve the problem of sustainable water resources.

This program develops a framework for analysis and development of management policies for sustainable management of water resources in both Australia and China. The benefits of such collaboration would include integration and sharing of data collected, capacity building leading to standardisation of data protocols, application of models developed for a particular region to other regions, and ability to ‘tap’ into each other’s unique expertise and experience in managing regions with different characteristics. The challenging issues involve semantic and heterogeneous data integration, metadata extraction and schema transformation, modelling and model interoperability in water management domain as well as accessibility and security.

Partners
Yellow River Conservancy Commission of China, Queensland Waterway and Catchments Partnership, The University of Queensland, The University of Melbourne, The University Of New South Wales.

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