Applications and other Software Programs

The global water tool by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
A free and easy-to-use, high-level tool for companies and organizations to map their water use and assess risks relative to their global operations and supply chains Posted on 12 Dec, 2010 04:18 PM

The WBCSD's Global Water Tool, launched at World Water Week 2007 in Stockholm and updated in 2009 for the

Multi stage aerobic bio reactor for sewage treatment
AN attempt to overcome the problem of clogging and wash out of microbes from reactor, and to enhance the mixing and settlability of microbial granules within the reactor, Posted on 01 Oct, 2010 10:13 PM

About CAT “MAR” (Multi Stage Aerobic Bio Reactor)

This reactor was developed with the aim to overcome the main problem associated with SBR, MBR & FABBR, i.e.,

  • The plugging & clogging of filter and
  • Wash out microbes from the reactor        
Solids, Materials and their Mechanics – A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
A web-based course on solids, materials and their mechanics to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country Posted on 27 Sep, 2010 09:31 PM

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Solids, Materials and their Mechanics has been developed by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner.

Applications for Development Competition
The Open data initiative is a way forward towards better interaction between developer and development communities Posted on 27 Sep, 2010 12:21 PM


The World Bank

Visualizing Bangalore temperature
An app to visualise temperature of different regions Posted on 23 Sep, 2010 11:22 AM

I Love Bangalore

I was going through weather data exposed by India Water Portal and I was thinking about an interesting application which would show my love to Bangalore. The best part of Bangalore is its temperature, rains and clouds. So I wrote this small app which uses the data provided by India Water Portal (which in turn is by CRU). IWP has data for all the districts in India, for every month and for multiple parameters. They have data for 100 years. It quite an amount of data to play with if you are interested. They have an easy way of filtering and downloading.

Parsing and visualizing Indian flood forecast
Assessing the relevancy of flood forecast alerts Posted on 23 Sep, 2010 11:09 AM

Flood forecast alerts are provided by Central Water Commission. They have boring maps and tables. Also they don’t provide data in program accessible format. Members of ICTD for asia are working on parsing and storing that data. In the meantime I wanted something to play. I found ScraperWiki (hacker news discussion) which can be used to scrape data from any page and schedule it for running. It allows php, python and ruby languages. Its easy and gives lot more flexibility than Y! pipes to scrape that data. Here is my scraper to get the flood data. You will have to register to get an API to use the data. Data is available in JSON, XML, PHP etc.

Notes on rainfall data visualization of Karnataka
Visualising the rainfall data on Google visualisation API Posted on 23 Sep, 2010 10:51 AM

After watching “developing world” video on TED, I was eager to try out Google visualization API. When I found the rain fall information, I thought its the best suited data to play around. Go check out the Visualization of Rain Fall in Karnataka.

Effective groundwater management in urban areas
Often groundwater pumping is undertaken assuming the resource to be infinite. This myth has been shattered in the last few decades with increasing scarcity and deterioration in terms of quality as a consequence of over-exploitation and mismanagement of this resource to meet competing demands for drinking water and other needs in urban cities. However, managing groundwater is not an easy task. This is simply because a groundwater molecule underground is always in motion but never visible in situ. This inherent dynamic and hidden nature of ground water in terms of quality and quantity makes it difficult to manage groundwater resources Posted on 20 Jun, 2010 06:32 PM

Often groundwater pumping is undertaken assuming the resource to be infinite. This myth has been shattered in the last few decades with increasing scarcity and deterioration in terms of quality as a consequence of over-exploitation and mismanagement of this resource to meet competing demands for drinking water and other needs in urban cities. However, managing groundwater is not an easy task.

Water Evaluation And Planning(WEAP) in the Indus and Ganges basin
An evaluation on the water evaluation and planning in the Indus and Gangetic basin Posted on 04 Dec, 2009 11:57 AM

This couldn't have been more relevant to the conversation that we are having here.

Using GIS in Water Quality
A website that contains research papers on using GIS in water quality Posted on 18 Sep, 2009 10:34 AM

Using GIS in Water Quality: The website  contains several research papers on using GIS in Water Quality.

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