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Utilization of ICT for Enhanced Water Resources Management

&Monitoring Networks at MWRI

Ayman Ibrahim,General Director for Studies and

Projects , Telemetry, MWRIayman16@hotmail.comayman16@mwri.gov.eg

ITU Workshop on “ICT as an Enabler for Smart Water Management”

(Luxor, Egypt, 14-15 April 2013)

ChallengesLimited Water Resources Increased Population, Share 55.5 billion m3 /year according to the 1959 Agreement

Population increase, thereby increasing the requirements of drinking waterIndustry growth9 million acres cultivated area

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Challenges

Pollution & Water Quality deterioration Plan Horizontal Expansion

National Programs adopted by the State to increase the cultivated area in the near future (reclamation and cultivation of 3.4 million acres)

Conflicts between users Illegal Agricultural LandAgricultural Policies

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To face these challenges

Improving the overall water use efficiency in order to minimize the losses out of the system and distributing the available water for agriculture in an equitable way.Improved planning and management procedures are key measures generally prescribed to make the optimum use of the available water resources.

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To face these Challenges

Satisfying future demands in Egypt will highly depend on better utilization and efficient use of present water resources.Development of additional water resources

Re-use of agricultural drainage water,Groundwater, Rain and storm water

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To face these challenges

The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation MWRI is currently adopting the Integrated Water Resources Management IWRM approach and also actively involved in National Water Policy which is also based on integrated water management.

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ICT & Water Resources

The Information technology, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA Systems, telemetry, Remote Sensing and automatic control systems are disciplines that highly contribute in achieving such MWRI goals to face Limited water resources challenges. Part of Mitigation measures

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ICT & Water Resources

A main engine to achieve such goals and face these challenges is the availability of accurate and continuous (real time) water related data about the behavior of the irrigation system. This will help decision makers and water distribution managers take the appropriate and right decisions at the right times.

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ICT & Water Resources

Information technology and rapid development of communication systems definitely help implement such IT systems in a very cost effective way.

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Monitoring Networks

During the last few years the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation has adopted many programs that aim to establishment of different monitoring networks that provides real time data on water quantity and water quality.

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Telemetry Monitoring Network

Implementation of water level monitoring network at the main irrigation structures along the Nile River and main canals. This monitoring system covers now 103 sites on the Nile barrages and main canals and some second order canals.

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Telemetry System Components

At Sites:Data LoggerGSM/GPRS ModemWater Level SensorsPower Supply

Solar Cell & BatteryNEMA Box

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Telemetry System Components

At Irrigation Directorates GDWater Distribution ManagerTelemetry Department

Computer System Equipped with S/W and GSM/GPRS modem

At Ministry CenterServers and GSM/GPRS Modems equipped

with needed S/W

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Data Monitored

MeasuredUp Stream Water LevelDown Stream Water LevelTemperatureBattery VoltagePump Units Status On/Off

CalculatedPump Working HoursWater Flow

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Data Types

Real Time Data Historic Data

Communication Dedicated APN Access Point NameSupports up to GPRS - Edge

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Water Quality Monitoring

Water quality monitoring system includes 25 sites located along the Nile River and main canals and drains. The measured data includes

Dissolved Oxygen , PH, Conductivity and Turbidity

 

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IQ 2020 Data Logger System

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HMI at Site

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Communication System

Dial Up Data SIMPay as you GoOnly SIM at the center pays bill

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Lake Nasser Evaporation Monitoring Network

Number of sites : 8 sites distributed along lake Nasser

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Measured Parameters

Net RadiationWind Speed at 2m & 4mWind Direction at 2m & 4mWater Temperature at different Depths

Surface2m5m10m15m20m

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Measured Parameters

Humidity at2m4m

Air Temperature at2m4m

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Communication System

APN GPRS/EdgeSatellite

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Satellite

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2 Km US High Aswan Dam Station

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240 Km US High Aswan Dam StationToshka

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280 Km US High Aswan Dam StationAbo Sambel

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Main User Interface Screen

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Water flow Monitoring system

Water flow monitoring system include 30 sites located at IWMDs in Gharbyia, Behra and kafr El Sheik directorates The measured data is directly water flow via ultra sonic flow sensors

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Water flow sites

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Conclusions and Recommendations

The Ministry, to some extent, has achieved many of the planned goals by implementing such monitoring networks.

Even though of the great benefits provided by these monitoring networks, more effort towards optimizing its operation is still required.

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Conclusions and Recommendations

The areas of the needed efforts could be summarized as follows:

Information technology part of the system that will utilize the huge collected data. A reliable Information system design is a need at this stage of the project. The system design should carefully define data flows among different users.

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Conclusions and Recommendations

This should also include design and implementation of Decision Support System DSS to support decision makers at different management levels

The existing water level monitoring network should be generalized to allow monitoring of water flows and water volumes to follow Ministry policies related to water volume based allocation.

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Conclusions and Recommendations

The existing monitoring network should be extended to cover the key points at the irrigation network. In order to achieve the Ministry integrated approach in water resources management,

These monitoring networks should be linked together.

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Conclusions and Recommendations

At many sites a real time monitoring of the data is very essential and it is not supported with the existing network.

The real time monitoring is required at the mixing pumping stations where, pump units operation along with water quality and water quantity should be continuously monitored in a real time sense.

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Conclusions and Recommendations

The drawbacks and pitfalls of the recently implemented monitoring networks will be overcome in order to effectively strengthening the capabilities of the Ministry’ operations staff

in the field of water resources management through implementing an integrated monitoring network for water management (quality and quantity) to monitor and analyze water.

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Conclusions and Recommendations

Utilize the data collection network to build a remote control system Design for irrigation structures for possible generalization.

design of sustainable Geographical Information System GIS Decision Support System DSS,

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