NATIONAL HYDROLOGY PROJECT An Overview Ministry of Water

NATIONAL HYDROLOGY PROJECT An Overview Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 23. 05. 2017, New Delhi

National Hydrology Project (NHP) Project Development Objective: To improve the extent, reliability and accessibility of water resources information and to strengthen the capacity of targeted water resources management institutions in India.

River Basin State map Implementing HP 1 1995 -2003 Agencies HP 2 NHP 2006 -2014 9 6 - 19 2 6 1 37 2 8 2 Total HP-I: Major Highlights • Manual Data Collection • Desktop data management States UT Central agencies RBO 15 28 49 NHP: Major Highlights • Pan-India coverage • Web-based National HP-II: Major Highlights Database – India. WRIS • Real Time Data Acquisition • River basin based water • Web-based data accounting. management • Advavnced Flood forecasting system

National Hydrology Project (NHP) Project Components: A. Water Resources Data Acquisition System (WRDAS) B. Water Resources Information System (WRIS) C. Water Resources Operation and Planning (WROP) D. Institutions Capacity Enhancement Total Cost - INR 3640 Crore + INR 39. 77 Crore for NWIC World Bank Loan – USD 175 Million IBRD Duration - 8 years

What is new under NHP? National Water information system • Standardization of RTDAS • Integration of state and central data and make it accessible to states in river basin scale through establishment of NWIC. • Introduction of state WRIS • Improve accessibility through use of Cloud based database management, web-based applications, standard telemetric system including INSAT, VSAT. • Minimize duplicity for all including spatial and temporal data River Basin approach – collaborative modeling • IWRM & Water budgeting for River basin with information on water availability in tributaries, streams level • Flood forecasting & Inundation Modeling

Database Improved Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits Decision Making: Better Planning and Operational Decisions in Water Management NHP Concept Beyond Project Communica tion Framework Decision making tools: Basin Planning, FF, etc. Scenario Generation Within Project Modelling & Analysis

Better Basin Planning and Operational Decisions in Water Management C: Water Resources Planning & Operation System D. Institutional Capacity Enhancemen t B: Water Resources Information System Centre of Excellence GIS Layers High Resolution DEM Weathe r Forecas t Generic Hydrological Products Remote Sense Imagerie s DSS for River Basin Planning States-WRIS Maharashtra Karnataka AP Telangana Krishna Basin WRIS Collaboratio n with National/ International Institutes Flood management Reservoir Operation A: Water Data Acquisition System Capacity Building Groundwater management Irrigation management Meteorologic River/Reserv Groundwat Community Water SCADA for oir al Monitoring er monitoring/ Quality canal/ reservoir Monitoring crowd sourcing State Data Centers Outreach and Awareness

A: Water Resources Data System

Water Resources Data Acquisition System Hydro-met Instruments to be installed under NHP Automatic Weather Stations Water Level Recorder River Flow (ADCP) Snow Pillow Water Quality Station Digital GW Recorder

Water Resources Data Acquisition System Type and number of equipment (approx. ) Category Meteorological Type of Station Rain gauges Automatic weather stations Rivers Dams/barrages (integrated) Surface water level Canals monitoring SCADA in irrigation systems Total Groundwater level/flow Groundwater monitoring Water quality sampling sites Number 2, 000 500 1, 300 650 300 50 2, 300 7, 000 1, 700

COMPONENT A – PRESENT STATUS • To establish and integrate a country-wide hydro-met monitoring network system: • Proposal for development of additional modules of centralized database management software: v. Automatic Data acquisition system for both SW & GW v. SMS based Applications Module for communication of Data v. Module for Inventories of H. O & Met equipment at each site. v. Module for linkage of various data with India-WRIS v. Development of e-training modules and e-courses etc. • Frame Work Agreement for standardization of Equipment is ready • Hydro-met network for 8 states discussed & finalized • Band width allocation for data acquisition has been made by ISRO • Earth Receiving Stations (ERS), CWC is ready • Proposal for State Data Centre received from some states

try me ele e. T lit tel Satellite Sa Manual data entry/SMS based etc. Data Collection Platform (DCP) Feedback in design Sensors NWIC (India-WRIS) Earth Receiving Station Cellular Tower Internet Lease line Cloud server Internet Lease line State Data Center (State-WRIS) (Local Server with e. SWIS and e. GEM software) Spatial & Remote Sensed Information

B: Water Resources Information System

Water Resources Information Products Development of State-WRIS Digitization of Water related data The states should follow the India. WRIS standards for integration, The purpose of State-WRIS is to “serve” and exchange with other stake holders such as Drinking, Agriculture and watershed department.

National Water Informatics Centre Objectives of NWIC a) To create the GIS platform with the participation of all the Implementing Agencies. • India-WRIS is envisaged to play the pivotal role. • Institutional linkages for sharing of data through web map services/web feature services. b) Maintenance, updation, and management of national level water resources database and generate new data sets. c) Dissemination of customized Information and application products for various applications (DSS etc. ). d) Develop platform for web based data processing and services e) Capacity building activities f) Collaboration with National and International Institutes

India-WRIS MOWR, RD & GR SOI NWIC IMD NRSC River Basin Data Centralized Data India WRIS CGWB River Basin Data CPCB River Basin Data NIH River Basin Data CWC State WRIS River Basin Data Water Resources Agencies and other Water Allied Stakeholders for Application and R&D

Knowledge products • Centralized Procurement of High Resolution DEM • Centralized procurement of RS products: real time ET • Centralized arrangement for weather forecast DEM: 20 M ha ( 0. 5 m 3 m – whole country

B: Digital Terrain model Entire India: - Existing India. WRIS in process of acquiring 10 m. - Will aim to improve to 3 -5 m using existing information or Satellite based remote sensing based information. - Proposed for LIDAR under NHP LIDAR is proposed for inundated area for 0. 5 m DTM. - NPMU is coordinating with NRSC to avoid duplicity. - States need to coordinate with other state departments to acquire LIDAR imageries if already taken. LIDAR done by NRSC

C: Water Resources Operation and Planning

C: Water Resources Operation and Planning

Advanced flood forecasting with improved lead time Focus will be on identification of Flood Prone area and development of forecast with more than 3 days lead time 21

Disaster Response: Flood forecasting Disaster Response will be equipped with the streamflow forecast and inundated area 22

Water Resources Management CHALLENGES : § Trans-boundary issues (international/inter-state) § Increasing Demand for water and competition for water among the different sectors § Inefficient Water Management § Drought § Floods § Deteriorating water quality

IWRM Studies Approach Proposed under NHP a) Mo. WR, RD&GR - responsible for developing the river basins assessment and planning systems at Macro level (River basin level) • main stream and first order tributaries of the river; • major and medium reservoirs in the river basin etc. b) The States - responsible to develop detailed Micro level (sub-basin level) river basin assessment & planning tools. o 2 nd and higher order tributaries of the river; o Medium and minor schemes in the river basin etc. Ø Though both the Macro and Micro level systems will be standalone, yet integrated. Ø National Water Informatics Centre (NWIC) to provide all the data available with them to the States for the development of Micro level models.

COMPONENT C – PRESENT STATUS • IWRM STUDIES v. Eo. I for IWRM Study in Krishna, Godawari & Mahanadi basin has been floated – under evaluation v. Other basins are also in pipeline. • Development of systems for Integrated Flood Forecasting v 1 -D Modeling with lead time of 3 days for Flood Prone area of entire country is almost completed and model will be tested in the coming monsoon season. v Bid document for development of dashboard has been prepared. v 2 -D modeling will be carried out in collaboration with NRSC. v The delivery of 10 -m DEM from So. I has started.

Purpose Driven Support Specialized studies – R & D component Some key topics includes: • • Salinity intrusion in coastal aquifers Cloud burst Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) Water Quality Studies Irrigation system benchmarking Effectiveness of groundwater recharging Impacts of checkdams on flow regime of rivers/ rivulets Dam Break Analysis

D: Institutional Capacity Enhancement 27

Component – D (Institutions Capacity Enhancement) Water Resources Knowledge Centre River basin modelling / Excellence centers: - Krishna / Mahanadi / Damodar - Goa Groundwater modelling center: AP/Telangana Centre of Excellent for Water Management - North East Centre of Excellence for Water, Guwahati - CWC Centre of Excellence, Hyderabad Facilitate knowledge exchange: With internationally reputed Institutes - States may consider reforming WALMIs Centers of Excellence does not mean construction of state of art “Building” only. “Excellent water managers” who could work on water related issues and exchange best practices are must for these Centre of Excellence. Major Challenge would be to establish a center that can continue after NHP

Professional Development § § § Training - Training need assessment of Implementing agencies - Customized training - National level training - International training - Web-based training courses Study tours (International/ National) for cross learning Involvement of local universities for capacity building (identifying local universities by State IAs to build their capacity) Development of Master Degree course in Water Resources/ Flood Management in collaboration with IITs. Development of Centre of Excellence for R&D Collaboration with international institutions (UNESCO-IHE, UNESCO WATER, ICE-WARM etc)

Project Management Activity Signing of Memorandum of Agreement by IAs Opening of Bank A/c Project Implementation Plan (PIP) Status 49 47 ( Delhi, Goa) Completed except Delhi Total Release of Fund during 2016 -17 Rs 47. 84 Crore Revalidation of Unspent amount of 2016 -17 Conveyed to IAs Annual Work Plan (2017 -18) Release of funds to IAs during 2017 -18 Loan Agreement Signed with World Bank Effective Date for Loan Agreement Technical Assistance & Management Consultancy (TAMC) Status of NPMU/ CPMU/ SPMU Financial/ Procurement/ Hydromet Manual 39 under approval Release of 140 Crore under process 18 th April, 2017 5 th May, 2017 Advanced stage of evaluation All constituted except Delhi Finalised

Issues Need Attention • Status of Hydro-met system installed during HP-I & HP-II and Need to explore possibility of procuring Data Services • Finalisation of Hydro-met Sites – details of proposed sites along with longitude & latitude Two options Option 1: Commission Hydromet system 1. Framework Agreement for empanelling the make and models is almost ready by CWC. 2. IAs will procure integrator services. IAs will prepare financial bid along with the framework agreement for newly proposed Hydromet stations. However duplication should be avoided. 3. IMD data: CWC & IMD is having Mo. U for sharing of data. Option 2: Procure data services 1. Some firms are already providing services for AWS (Agriculture/insurance department). 2. Now some firms are showing interest for GW Data/ HIS as well.

Issues Need Attention • Creation of State Nodes of WRIS - Actions for States • Administration and policy • Match data policy with National Data dissemination policy. • Sign MOU with other departments such as Agriculture, drinking water supply and others to exchange the information and serve through development of applications. • Minimize duplicity • Weather data is collected by several agencies: agriculture, revenue, disaster, university: can we all integrate and use this project to fill the gap. • Join Central portal • Join central web database management and India. WRIS.

Issues Need Attention • To follow the Maintenance & Payment clause of Hydro-met system • Constitution of State Level Standing Committee (SLSC) for NHP • Physical & Financial Progress – MIS • Constitution of IWRM unit at State/Central Level

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