PROJECT SUMMARY 

AMU Project code 

EXT/vliruos/TH01/AWTI/WRRC/01/2014 

Project status 

Ongoing 

Acronym  

IoT-WATER 

Project phase 

I 

Partner(s)/ country(ies) 

VLIR-UOS (Belgium), 
Ecuador, Provinces of Pichincha and Azuay, highlands  
South Africa, Western Cape Province 
Other countries involved: Bolivia, Kenya, Uganda, Palestine. 

AMU coordinating office(s) 

AWTi, Water Resources Research Center 

Project type 

multi-type 

Project location 

Ethiopia, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region 

Target communities 

Ministry of Water and Energy, National Mereological Institute, Rift Valley Lakes Basin Development Office 

Project description 

 

Project coordinator  

Mekuanent Muluneh 

Project manager 

Dr. Abdella Kemal 

Principal investigator 

Mekuanent Muluneh 

Total project budget (€) 

89,891 

Project start 

01-Jan-20 

Project end 

31-Aug-22 

Contact person (e-mail) 

Mekuanent Muluneh (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 

Project Management Office 

 

Office of the Director for Grant and Collaborative Project Management: Dr. Thomas Torora (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is an approach to develop efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to water problems. It needs a combination of various disciplines and the active involvement of all stakeholders. Many water resources engineers in the Global South are now trained in using hydrological models to assess how ongoing trends or new policy measures will affect water resources in the longer term.  They often lack weather and hydrological data to apply these models for IWRM. Novel Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and sensors now create an opportunity to collect such data at an affordable cost, even though citizen-science projects.  The proposed project aims to provide training in the use of IoT technologies for monitoring water resources and to set up a network of water resources specialists who develop and share software (sensor monitoring scripts, smartphone apps), hardware information (sensors, IoT devices, building instructions), IoT network and cloud infrastructure, and best practices on how to involve stakeholders in water monitoring and IWRM.