Water Management Information System (WMIS)


Definition of the WMIS
The Water Management Information System (WMIS) is an Information Technology Tool based on a relational and distributed Database. Its objective is to provide relevant information for water management in the Jordan Valley.

Water Management and Decision Making:
Periodical cross-checking between water demand and water resources
Ensuring the water balance for the coming months
Deciding whenever necessary upon water allocation between competitive requirements.

The strategy results in the following major decisions
Diversion of water from water resources,
Allocation of water quota to the various consumers,
Definition of a reservoir strategy (monthly target levels) .

Water Supply
Management of the hydraulic infrastructure
Supplying water to Amman
Divided in four tasks:
Water supply management
Operation of infrastructures
System Monitoring
Water Supply Control

Water Distribution
Distribution of water to single users (i.e. farm turnouts)
Divided in four tasks:
Organization of Irrigation Schedule
Water Delivery to the Farmers
Billing & Accounting
Water Demand Assessment
    

The Water Management System:
 O Static Data 
  · Nodes:
         · Resource Nodes: rivers, wadis, rainfall, wells, springs and external resources.
         · Buffer Nodes: reservoirs, canals, river course and carrier.
         · Consumer Nodes: irrigation network, waste water, Amman, etc.

   · Links:
         · Connection between nodes
         · Either virtual
         · Or Physical infrastructure: pipe, pumping station, etc.
O Historical Data
  · Field measurement:
       · River daily flows
       · Reservoirs levels
       · Reservoirs daily inflows and outflows
       · KAC daily inflows and outflows
       · Farm consumption & accounting data
       · Monthly planting register

O Water Management Data
       · Planning Data:
       · Forecasted water resources
       · Reservoir target volumes
       · Consumer Monthly water requirements and quotas
       · Supplier Monthly and Daily quotas
       · Irrigation Schedule
       ·Irrigation Orders

O Water Management Data
     · Planning Data:
     · Forecasted water resources
     · Reservoir target volumes
     · Consumer Monthly water requirements and quotas
     · Supplier Monthly and Daily quotas
     · Irrigation Schedule
     · Irrigation Orders


                                    WMIS Application Modules

O Water Management Strategy (WMU)
     · Surface Flow Forecasting
     · To Forecast monthly flow rates
     · Water Management Strategy
     · To Balance water resource with water demand
     · Water Management Performances
     · To Monitor the water management strategy
     · To compute the Water Balance
     · To Compute the Water Efficiency

O Water Supply Activity (GCC)
    · Water Supply Management
          · To Perform the Water Balance
    · Historical Data Management
          · To Transfer Data from the SCADA to the WMIS or enter manually measured Data
          · To transfer Data from the WMIS to the SCADA
          · To perform simple statistics
          · To provide summary reports

O Water Distribution Activity
  · Irrigation Scheduling Program (Dir./SO)
      · To Establish the Irrigation Schedule

   · Irrigation Orders Processing (SO)
     · To Produce Irrigation Orders

   · Billing and Accounting Program (SO)
      · To Enter Water Consumption, compute water Bills, establish invoices and enter Payments

   · Planting Register Processing (SO)
      · To Enter the Planting Register

O Water Distribution Activity
   · Water Consumption Statistics (Dir.)
       · To Establish monthly statistics

   · Planting Records & Water Demand (Dir.)
       · To Validate and aggregate the Planting Register
       · To compute the corresponding Water Demand

                       Water Management Flow of Information

Benefits of using the WMIS

O Operation of the Hydraulic Scheme
     · To improve of the global efficiency
     · To make short time adjustments

O Organizational benefits
    · To share the same data at every levels
    · To compute easily of lot of data
    · To eliminate errors of computation or missing data
    · To update easily data (crops, water demand, etc.)

  O Technical benefits
    · To be able to transfer data from or to another system automatically
    · To get user friendly tools
    · To have information available

O Decisional level
   · To get reports regularly
   · To aggregate data
   · To watch historical data easily
   · To make simulation for comparison
   · To help you to take a good decision
 

Ministry of Water & Irrigation