Case Studies

An Online, GIS-based Solution for India’s Apex Water Resources Body

Water Information System Data Online Management System (WISDOM) is an online GIS-based water information system developed for the Central Water Commission (CWC), India.

Project Overview

The project involved developing a GIS-based customized solution that manages spatial and non-spatial surface water data of 31 CWC locations. It comprises a desktop solution to manage data and disseminate it through a web-based solution.

Major functionalities include:

• Register external formats
• Map-registered formats with features and attributes
• Import data of multiple formats
• Update data availability and view actual data
• Generate metadata and publish in the catalogue
• Import data request forms
• Service data requests
• Export / disseminate data

Client Profile

The CWC is the country’s premier technical water resources organization since 1945. It currently functions as an attached office of the Ministry of Water Resources. The commission’s responsibilities include initiating, coordinating and furthering schemes for the control, conservation and utilization of water resources throughout the country. The schemes may be for flood control, irrigation, navigation, drinking water supply and hydro power development.

Business Situation

In 1995-96, the Government of India and nine state governments entered into a development credit agreement with the World Bank to implement a hydrology project. The project was under a joint financing arrangement, under which the Netherlands government provided related technical assistance in the form of grants. The project -- which was the first concerted effort on this scale to improve HIS in the country -- was to develop a system to collect, process, store and disseminate data on hydrological, geo-hydrological and hydro-meteorological quantity and quality variables.

Solution

Rolta proposed a web-based MIS/GIS integrated solution keeping in view:

• Ease of configuration with no special client package required other than a browser
• Ease of use with simple intuitive GUI
• Efficient metadata creation and publishing utility

Business Benefits

The benefits of the solution were:

• Easy configuration and installation
• More efficient and effective solution for managing surface water data
• Easier business visualization through a GIS-based solution

Client Testimonial 

"Rolta used its domain knowledge in software development to address the specific needs and requirements of CWC, an apex organization in the field of water resources in the country, for a sound, single-point comprehensive solution. The developed solution has gone through rigorous quality control processes and ensured that the application was as per specifications. The application so developed has automated the process of generating data requests and processing the same for successful data dissemination to hydrological data users all over the globe."