The growing global population poses significant challenges to current approaches in sharing water resources and mitigating risks from natural hazards. DHI bridges the gap between risk and action and helps ensure a more sustainable future through an integrated water resources management approach.
Our solutions include:
Integrated water resources management – Using real-time monitoring and reporting decision support systems, we help nations share information on flood and drought, water availability, diversions and quality for transboundary water sharing and the protection of biodiversity and freshwater ecosystems
Sustainable river management – Assisting river and reservoir managers in meeting the various demands of riverine environmental management
Flood risk management – Supporting governments, authorities and emergency responders to capture flood hazards, quantify impacts, design interventions and evaluate adaptation pathways, disseminate flood risk alerts, transfer residual risks through parametric insurance and more
Groundwater management – Providing reliable assessments of the total groundwater resource, balancing abstraction with recharge, and ensuring water quality is maintained
Efficiency improvement for irrigation systems – Optimising irrigation systems through smart technology, improved reuse and enhanced reservoir and river operations
Forecasting flows and water levels in Segura River In a 2023 project supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Development, backed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), DHI and partners have
designed and implemented a digital twin that is expected to improve water management in the Segura River Basin.
‘The digital twin draws on a range of real-time data sources, meteorological forecasts, satellite observations, integrated hydrological/hydraulic models and data assimilation to provide daily updated forecasts of water use, storage, flows, water levels and water balances in a single web platform to support decision-making’, says Peter Torp Larsen, Country Manager of DHI Spain.
Supporting shared water resources planning in the Mekong River
Together with Royal HaskoningDHV, DHI started working on a project in 2023 for the Mekong River Commission (MRC). The ‘Proactive Regional Planning’ project aims to develop an adaptive basin plan that is aligned with stakeholders’ priorities, as well as supplements national plans through joint and national investment projects that increase overall benefits and decrease costs at the basin level. Project Manager Henrik Garsdal says, ‘DHI is leading the project to upgrade the current decision support framework into a flexible tool for planning and operation. We will also strengthen proficiency in using the tool to facilitate the adaptive basin planning process and support improved implementation of the MRC procedures.’ The overall aim is to enhance MRC’s ability to evaluate and propose joint investment options for the Mekong countries, taking future challenges like climate change, population and economic growth into consideration when planning for sustainable use of shared water resources in the Mekong River basin.