STIWM 2018: International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Intelligent Water Management 2018 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee, India, February 16-19, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.iwrs.org.in/stiwm/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stiwm2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 15, 2017 |
Submission deadline | January 15, 2018 |
International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Intelligent Water Management -STIWM 2018
India is the second most populous and largest democratic country in the world. It is one of the few countries that are endowed with abundant land and water resources. The majority of its population relies on agriculture for sustenance. Since independence, considerable efforts have been made for attaining food security to meet the increasing demand of food for its growing population, and there has been a remarkable success. Undoubtedly, the Green Revolution technologies of the 1960s addressed the challenge of food security, enhanced the yield with better irrigation prospects and successfully increased crop production using high-yielding seed varieties.
The prevailing concept of smart cities in the country relies on multiple utility infrastructure systems that are characterized by complexity and accompanied by high investment and management costs. These smart cities and other urban centers are expected to face water resources distribution challenges due to increased population flow, energy supply issues due to depletion of fossil fuel resources, increased investment overheads, spiraling maintenance and management costs, and improper land resource utilization. Innovative and sustainable technologies for intelligent water management are deemed vital to minimize the impact of these emerging challenges.
Urbanization, on the other hand, is leading to desertification, waterlogging, soil salinity, and water born epidemics, not to mention that the cultivated area is alarmingly decreasing. For increasing food production, improvement and expansion of agricultural water management by scientific storage, transport, distribution and proper management must be undertaken.
It is a common experience that climate change and agriculture are interrelated. IPCC speculates 10-40% loss in crop production in India by 2080-2100 due to global warming, despite the beneficial aspects of increased CO2. The warming of Indian sub-continent is reported to be between 1 0C and 2 0C by 2030, leading to prospects for more severe droughts and/or floods with changes in precipitation and evapotranspiration rates.
Today's cropping yield is most vulnerable to climate variability, calling for modernization of existing irrigation with well-designed and incorporated drainage systems. There is a need for increasing water storage (of all sizes) to make agriculture and the large population of farmers more resilient to climate change impacts.
Energy plays a vital role in the overall growth of a nation. Since energy resources are limited, the focus is on renewable sources of energy. Hydropower is one of such proven and clean sources of energy with annual global hydropower generation having reached about 3,900 TWh, providing 16.6% of global electricity. Hydropower being the most economic and preferred source of electricity notwithstanding, its share has been declining steadily since 1963; from 50% in 1962-63 to about 15% of installed capacity in January 2017.
Thus, the scope of this conference is fairly wide and includes any combination of theoretical/ conceptual/applied, analytical/computational, and/or experimental/field approaches used for furtherance of the understanding in various facets involving intelligent hydro-informatics, river basin water management for urban and rural area, irrigation, hydropower, environment, health, disaster, governance, coastal management, capacity building, and so on.
This conference will provide an opportunity to policy makers, academicians, researchers, and students to share their experiences and knowledge by the presentation of fundamental/applied scientific advances made in the field of water resources engineering and management for sustainable development.
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts of papers (not exceeding 150 words) on the above session themes of the Conference are invited latest by September 15, 2017, and the acceptance will be notified by October 31, 2017. The authors of the accepted abstracts are requested to submit the full-length papers latest by January 15, 2018.
The abstract of the papers can be uploaded on the https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stiwm2018 or email to secretaryiwrs@gmail.com. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers
List of Topics
• Applications of ANN, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, and other evolutionary methods
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing Applications
• Intelligent decision support systems
2. Intelligent river basin management
• Issues and challenges of large river basin management
• Hydraulics and waterways
• Floods and drought management
3. Intelligent urban and rural water management
• Urban hydrology and storm water management
• Smart cities and urban water supply management
• Smart water technologies
• Drinking water management in rural and hilly areas
4. Sustainable irrigation water management
• Irrigation rehabilitation and modernization
• Precise irrigation methods
• Command area development and management
• Optimal cropping pattern and yield maximization
5. Sustainable hydropower management
• Risk and uncertainties in hydropower development & management
• Sediment management
• E-flows
• Conflict resolution
6. Intelligent & sustainable coastal water management
• Saline-water Intrusion
• Modeling and monitoring
• Mitigation of saline-water intrusion
7. Water, Environment, and Health
• Water pollution
• Water supply and sanitation
• Water quality and environment protection
• Wastewater quality and management
8. Global warming and impact of climate change on society
• Climatic variability and extremes
• Detection of climate change
• Impact of climate change on arid and semi-arid regions
9. Water governance and capacity building
• Water laws & policy: problems, prospects and consumer perspective
• Knowledge engineering and management
• Education and training
• Internet-based applications
Registration Fees
The fee includes access to all sessions, Conference Proceedings, Lunch and Conference banquet, Tea/coffee during the session break. The participants will be provided with accommodation on payment basis.
Registration | Category | Fees |
INDIAN | Delegates | INR 12000 |
Students | INR 4000 | |
FOREIGN | Delegates | USD 300 |
Students | USD 100 |
DETAILS OF ACCOUNT HOLDER:
E OF ACCOUNT HOLDER: | INDIAN WATER RESOURCES SOCIETY |
COMPLETE BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER: | 10660279735 |
BANK NAME: | STATE BANK OF INDIA |
BRANCH NAME WITH COMPLETE ADDRESS: | SBI BRANCH, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROORKEE |
IFSC CODE: | SBIN0001069 |
MICR CODE OF BANK: | 247002094 |
Publication
STIWM 2018 proceedings may be published in IWRS Journal.
Venue
The conference will be held at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Ashish Pandey, organizing Secretary Email ID: secretaryiwrs@gmail.com.