Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM UTC+8
Location: Room 1, Singapore EXPO

REGISTER to Participate

IAHR is inviting institutions, professionals, and stakeholders to participate in a high-level meeting that will bring together leading hydro-environment engineering and research institutes from around the world. The objective is present the key findings of the Global Water Institutes Report on Digital Transformation of the Water Sector – Accelerators and Risks initiative. The meeting will be held in the frame of the 41st IAHR World Congress on June 26 2025, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, at the Singapore EXPO.

More than 120 organisations have participated in the IAHR Global Water Institutes Survey on Digital Transformation in the Water Sector, providing outstanding input that will help shape the future of digital water management. This survey aims to gather insights from leadings water institutions to inform a report on digital transformation.

This event represents a unique opportunity for organisations and individuals seeking a broad and informed perspective on the Digital Transformation of the water sector.

Register to participate in the meeting!

The digitalisation in the hydroenvironmental engineering and research is nowadays a key tool for improving the management of the resources, connecting the physical and digital worlds. Through the deployment of sensoring, IoT, artificial intelligence, and interactions with advanced models, environmental data is collected in real time and integrated into Digital Twins. This comprehensive approach makes it possible to optimise the functioning of hydroenvironmental systems and support decision-making with up-to-date information.

For this to be possible, it is essential that the institutions responsible for water and environmental management be fully involved throughout the entire process.

That's why we at IAHR have prepared a report supported with a survey, and based on the results and the experience of some of the experts in each of the five pillars identified in the digitalisation process we would like to share with all the institutions interested the results and the main considerations across any of the topics.”

We invite attendees to actively participate in the debate and share their thoughts on the topics we've considered, so we can expand the survey with more participants in the future and share the results. We'll also look at the next edition of the international conference dedicated to digitalisation to see what progress will be made over the next two years.

 About the Report

The Global Water Institutes Report on the Digital Transformation of the Water Sector is underpinned by the insights and views of major global institutes representing the hydro-environment engineering and research communities in countries around the world. Selected peak organisations from different regions of the world are invited to participate in the development of the report. 

 The report focusses on two key areas: 

•  Digital Accelerators:  Which key technologies, tools and approaches shape the digital transformation of current and future water management.  What is the state of the art and what are the priorities for research, development and implementation? Key areas: Data and sensoring; Internet of Things; Modelling; Artificial intelligence; Big data; Digital twins

• Risks and challenges: What are the major constraints, challenges and inherent trade-offs that accompany the digital transformation journey for countries, water basins, cities and sectoral users. 

The structure of the report is: 

• Preface

• Executive Summary

• Introduction: 

• Data, on site sensing, Internet of Things 

• Data, Remote sensing, Earth Observation 

• Modelling

• Artificial Intelligence 

• Digital twins 

• Conclusions
  

Each thematic area (chapters 2 to 6) will follow the same sub-structure: 

• Overview 

• Why do it? What benefits? What gains? 

• When should we not do it? What should be careful about?  

• What do we need to do? Where should we focus our efforts?  biggest potential or bang for our buck?  what innovations should we keep an eye on?  From perspectives of decision makers, solution providers and researchers.