5th Global DWAT Workshop

DWAT helps improve understanding of the impacts of past and present water management practices on water resources, as well as the interactions between climate, water and landscape. The tool can be used to assess water resources at the operational level in all 192 WMO Member countries. 

DWAT trainings have been performed over several years with experts across all WMO regions, where they were able to apply the tool in a basin of importance to their country.

A new version of the tool (2.0) has been released and a 5th DWAT Workshop will be held on 30 November to 1 December 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. The objective will be to share the results of DWAT case studies applying the new version of the tool, understand how it can be applied under different basin characteristics across all WMO Regional Associations and showcase functionalities of DWAT.

For more information on DWAT please check the DWAT Website and DWAT Technical note

 

 

AGENDA AND PRESENTATIONS

5th DWAT Global Workshop

29 November 2023

Venue: United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC-BKK), Bangkok, Thailand

14:00 – 17:00 (IndoChina Time)

Wednesday, 29th November 2023

14:00 – 17:00

Final work on case studies

participants

 

 

30th November and 1st December 2023

Venue: United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC-BKK), Bangkok, Thailand

09:00 – 17:00 (IndoChina Time)

 

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Time (ICT)

Item

Facilitator

08:30 – 09:00

Registrations

KICT

09:00 – 09:15

Opening remarks

Dr Hyeonjun Kim, Vice President for Research,

Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology (KICT)

 

Dr Hwirin Kim, WMO

 

Dr Hyo Seob Cho, Chair, RA II CP-Hydrology

09:10 – 09:20

Welcome remarks

Ms. Hae Yun Choung,
Senior Deputy Director,

Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea

09:20 – 09:30

Introductions and group photo

KICT

09:30 – 09:50

SC-HYD Activity 9 – Water Resources Assessments and Management

Roberto Silva Vara, WMO

09:50 – 10:10

Presentation for the development of the Dynamic Water resources Assessment Tool

Dr Cheolhee Jang, Senior Researcher,

Hydro Science and Engineering Research Institute, KICT

10:10 – 10:30

Coffee/tea break

10:30 – 12:30

Testing and piloting of DWAT by experts across different RAs with a focus on how to apply the tool to Water Resources Assessments and Management

Case study presentations by

national experts (15 mins each)

- Iran

- Russia

- El Salvador

- Niger

- Kazakhstan

 

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30

Testing and piloting of DWAT by experts across different RAs with a focus on how to apply the tool to Water Resources Assessments and Management

Case study presentations by

national experts (15 mins each)

- Argentina

- Belize

- Malaysia

- Peru

15:30 – 15:40

Coffee/tea break

15:40 – 17:00

Interactive Session: Fine-tuning/Adjusting DWAT Applications

WMO Region experts and DWAT Development Team

 

Friday, 1 December 2023

Time (ICT)

Item

Facilitator

09:00 – 09:15

Recap of Day 1

KICT

09:15 – 10:30

Testing and piloting of DWAT by experts across different RAs with a focus on how to apply the tool to Water Resources Assessments and Management

Case study presentations by

national experts (15 mins each)

- Thailand

- Lao PDR

- Cambodia

- Kenya

- Myanmar

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee/tea break

10:45 – 11:10

DWAT Next Phase (new developments, next workshop)

+

Bangladesh presentation

Dr Hyeonjun Kim, Vice President for Research,

Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology (KICT)

11:10 – 11:40

Drafting session of workshop report and recommendations

KICT

 

11:40 – 12:00

Closure of the Workshop

KICT & WMO

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch Break

       

 

Presenters – Roberto Silva Vara, WMO & Nakul Prasad, WMO

Rapporteurs Roberto Silva Vara, WMO, Tommaso Abrate, WMO,Jochen Luther, WMO RAP &
Deokhwan
Kim, KICT