River Basin Digitization is what BWI can do for you
More than 2.3 billion people are facing water stress and almost 160 million children have been through severe and prolonged droughts. Hence, monitoring and predicting water resources and hazards has become key to human life, to political stability, to economic activity.
Nearly 97% of the world’s water is salty or otherwise undrinkable while ice caps and glaciers contain another 2%. Therefore, that leaves just 1% for all of humanity’s needs — all its agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community, and personal needs.
There is an inextricable link between water and climate change. Since global warming affects the world’s water resources in a complex way, looking at past water reserves data, streamflow data or water quality data isn’t enough. Technology is now sufficiently mature to look at the future and anticipate. Policy makers and corporate decision-makers can now make use of AI-powered tools for improved predictions of water levels, water discharge, water reservoir volumes, water quality and hydro-climatic disasters such as floods and droughts.
Climate change is exacerbating both water scarcity and water hazards – such as floods, droughts, and water pollution, as rising temperatures disrupt precipitation patterns and the entire water cycle. Therefore, it is important to do our best to augment climate resilience. BWI subscribers benefit from predictions processed based dozens of data sources – such as space sensors, weather radars, and other ground sensors. BWI also strives to launch a constellation dedicated to monitoring continental freshwater levels at all major basins worldwide. A daily global inland water availability monitoring will help quantify the impact of climate change on water resources.
Water is critical to life. In the next decades, population growth is expected to amplify the already tremendous pressure on water resources while global warming generates more and more extreme hydro-climatic events such as floods, heat waves and droughts, which are mainly affecting the most vulnerable populations. Taking into account the accelerating effects of climate change on water stress is the reason BWI reinforces hydraulic and hydrological models with deep learning, so clients are delivered with state-of-the-art water hazard forecasts.
BWI digitizes river basins
Basin digitization to enhance small hydro assets performance.
Basin digitization to forecast water levels, river discharge, water quality and to provide stakeholders with early warning tools.
All-things-continental-freshwater API
At least 30.000 water level measurement points updated everyday will be made available via an API.
BWI website is low carbon
Did you know that the Internet also contributes to climate change? Have you ever heard of greenhouse gas emissions generated by your online activity?
Using your computer, browsing the Internet with your smartphone, consume energy, via thousands of cables and computers that run permanently in data centers, and also because greenhouse gas have been necessary to manufacture and ship these devices.
At BWI, we’ve applied eco-design practices to this website because of our goal to minimize its carbon footprint.
-The code has been optimized to be generated quickly and with the minimum possible resources.
-Compressed Images.
-Limited CSS styles.
-Few plugins are used to avoid loading useless libraries.
Each visit to this website generates about 0.41g of eCO2. That’s still too much, but we’re working on mitigating these carbon emissions further.
BWI is also a Planet Tech’Care signatory.
