Dear Colleagues,

Placed below is an announcement of a course on DSS.

Training Course on "Decision Support System for Water
Resources Planning and Management"

19-23 September 2005, Roorkee (INDIA)

Introduction:

A DSS is a computer-based interactive tool to aid the
decision-making activities, to better understand the
problem, to explore alternative courses of actions,
and to predict impacts of a decision. DSSs have great
potential for a large variety of problems related to
management of water resources, such as optimal
planning of water resources in a basin, integrated
management of reservoirs, drought assessment and
mitigation, conjunctive use of surface and groundwater
resources, flood management, etc.

Typical components of a DSS are: Database management
system, Analytical tools (rainfall runoff modeling,
flood routing, groundwater modeling, water quality
modeling, optimization, simulation, etc.), Module for
retrieval and display of output, User interface, and
Utility modules.

A DSS is of particular use for decision-makers where
problems are poorly structured and a significant
effort is made/required to collect and generate
information, leaving little time to consider "big
picture". It helps a manager to cope up with the
complexity in model application, assists in
interpretation of model results, and provides timely
information that supports decisions. With the
widespread availability of computers and related
technology, it is but natural that the same is
gainfully employed in water resources management.

In view of the above, it is high time for the water
resources professional to be aware and motivated to
take advantages of the use of the DSS tools in
decision-making in respect of efficient water
resources planning, development and management. This
short-term course is intended to focus on the
fundamentals of DSSs, their applicability/utility of
DSSs in decision making related to floods, droughts,
reservoir operation, conjunctive use of water and
water quality.

Objectives:

To interact with personnel engaged in water resources
planning, development and management in the country,
regarding the utility of DSS in decision making and
the various methodologies that should form part of the
DSS.

This course is being planned as two-way interaction
with the participants so that the requirement of the
field organizations are also clearly identified and
the experiences are shared.

Course Structure:

The Course will consist of lectures by experts in
their respective fields. Faculty will comprise of
Scientists from NIH, Roorkee, IIT Roorkee and other
institutions in India. The lectures will be supported
by tutorials and computer sessions.

Course Contents:

The course will include the following:

* Fundamentals of DSS for water resources planning and
management

* Human decision making process

* Analytical tools and techniques useful in

o DSS for surface water planning

o DSS for Reservoir operation

o DSS for Drought mitigation

o DSS for Conjunctive use

o DSS for Water quality

Participants:

The course is intended for middle/senior level
engineers and officers working in water
resources/irrigation and other related departments of
Central/State Govt and those who are in teaching
profession. The number of seats is limited to 25
participants. The registration shall be done on the
first come first served basis.

Registration:

The registration fee per participant shall be Rs.
7000/- which includes the registration fees, course
material, stay at NIH guest house and working lunch.
However, the participants have to arrange for TA/DA
from their own organisation. Each registered
participant will be provided detailed lecture notes
and other materials.

The participants are requested to register themselves
by filling and mailing the attached registration form
latest by 22nd August 2005, along with a demand draft
in favour of 'National Institute of Hydrology, payable
at Roorkee.

Venue:

The venue of the course shall be National Institute of
Hydrology, Roorkee- 247 667, INDIA. Roorkee is a
medium size town of Uttranachal State and it is well
connected by road & rail from Delhi, Dehradun,
Saharanpur. NIH is situated at about 1 km from Bus
stand and 3 km from Railway Station.

National Institute of Hydrology (NIH):

NIH is the premier research institute of India in the
field of hydrology. It is an autonomous society under
the Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India. NIH
has six scientific divisions: Surface Water Hydrology,
Ground Water Hydrology, Water Resoures Systems,
Agricultural Hydrology, Environmental Hydrology, and
Hydrological Investigations. The institute has
oragnised a number of training courses in a wide range
of topics dealing with all aspects of hydrology at
Roorkee, Patna, Calcutta, Guwahati, Kakinada, Belgaum
and Chennai etc. NIH has well equipped laboratories
dealing with Water Quality, Remote Sensing, Soil and
Ground water, Hydrological Investigations, and Isotope
Hydrology. For more details please visit NIH web site
www.nih.ernet.in.

Address for Correspondence:

Dr. Sharad K. Jain
Scientist F and Head, WRS Division
National Institute of Hydrology
Roorkee 247 667, India

Tel. : (01332) 276417
Fax : (01332) 272123

E-Mail : skj@...


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Registration Form


Training Course on Decision Support System for Water
Resources Planning

(September 19-23, 2005)



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