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Hilo: Hydro Status of Now

We will be updating this with more information over the next few days. Feel free to comment if you have additional ideas or suggestions.

http://www.keyvan.net/images/hydro_status_of_now.png

Project Summary
The project aims to visualize the amount and use of water based on regions and their resources. Where do we get our water from? How are we using it? And how much are we using? (How much water are we wasting day by day?) How about the quality? Is it so clean that we can drink it, straight from the tap? What are the regional differences? How about the global distribution?

Data Sources and Visualisation
In addition to the links below about Spain's water (thanks Medialab!), here are a few links to interesting data sources and visualisations.
* World Water - http://www.worldwater.org/www/data.html
* Worldmapper - global water use, global water resources
* IGRAC - http://www.igrac.nl (maps and data about global ground water)
* Water Footprint - http://www.waterfootprint.org ("indicator of water use that includes both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer")
* Melbourne's Daily Water Consumption - http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/target15 … onsumption (example of a campaign in Australia)

Profile
Katrin is a visual artist and designer with an interest in aspects of communication, structure and space. Keyvan has a background in computer science and an interest in web development and interaction design. We are both currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
http://www.katrincaspar.net
http://www.keyvan.net

Collaborators
We're happy to work with anyone interested in our project. Particularly useful would be anyone with experience in the following areas:

* Environmental sciences (e.g. limnology, geography, etc.)
* Data analysis
* Social science
* Programming
* Graphic design
* Spanish

Wiki
You can follow development on our wiki page http://wiki.medialab-prado.es/index.php … a_de_ahora

ultima edicion por keyvan (15-11-2009 14:46:20)

2 Respuesta por medialab

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hi, Keyvan and Katrin!

some data about local water consumption in Madrid that might be useful, unfortunately only in spanish. Go to Capítulo 6. Infraestructuras básicas, then to 6.1. Abastecimiento de agua

http://www.munimadrid.es/portal/site/mu … 0ca8c0RCRD

3 Respuesta por medialab

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

more links:

In the data base of the National Institute of Statistics there are 3 survey abstracts about the use of water, here is the link:
http://www.ine.es/inebmenu/indice.htm

Ministry of Environment. In this public archives of environmental indicators there are some documents about the water consumption:
http://www.mma.es/portal/secciones/cali … /index.htm

also in the department SIAH of the Ministry of Environmental Issues there is information in real time about the water reservoirs:
http://www.mma.es/portal/secciones/agua … asoc/saih/

Hydrographical Confederation of the Tajo river:
http://www.chtajo.es/

Information about the quality of the water in some sampling stations of Madrid:
http://www.chtajo.es/redes/calidad/agua … es_ICA.htm

Canal de Isabel II, the company that manages the water supply in Madrid does not give access to the water consumption data in its web. Among its publication has a notebook with the title: microcomponents and explanatory factors about the domestic water consumption in the community of Madrid (the pdf can be downloaded but is elaborated material, not a data base):
http://www.cyii.es/cyii.es/web/sociedad … _9602.html

4 Respuesta por guergana

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hola,

quiero colaborar en este proyecto. Mi formación es de Ingeniera en Sistemas Computacionales, Master en Sistemas Interactivos y actualmente estoy en el Doctorado de Teoría e Historia de la Representación Audiovisual de la UAB (Barcelona).

Llevo mucho tiempo sin programar, me he dedicado más bien al video en los últimos años.

Espero poder colaborar en lo que se pueda.

5 Respuesta por JavierT

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hola, me llamo Javier y me gustaría colaborar en el proyecto.
Estudié estadística y en los últimos años me he dedicado al desarrollo web, en especial a lado cliente.  Puedo aportar por tanto en la parte de programación y aunque hace mucho que no realizo estudios estadísticos, espero poder aportar también en esa parte.
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Hi, my name is Javier and i would like collaborate on this project.
I have studied statistics although tiem ago. In recent years i have work in web development, especially actionscript, CSS, javascript. But some experience with PHP and MySQL

6 Respuesta por keyvan

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hi guergana and JavierT,

Sorry for the late reply. Great to hear that you're interested in the project. Looking forward to meeting you and discussing ideas at the workshop. smile

See you soon,

Katrin & Keyvan

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hi Katrin & Keyvan.

I'm a chemical engineer, and in the last three years i've been working in the wastewater area in the public sector. That's why i think i could give some support related to sources of information, and ecological considerations.

Now i'm focusing on development cooperation, so i'm really interested in either conventional or unconventional ways of public participation in basic need's projects.

Btw, i've just loved your websites. Thanks to them i've discovered Processing, and it's amazing.

Hope to see you soon at MediaLab!

M.

8 Respuesta por goodhill

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hi, I'm a Technical Operational Support from an gouvernamental agency. I'm very interested on your project looking for innovation in visual comm's for public data.
I'm the project manager form the unit of automated processes, i'm psychologist and IT engeneer and i've have a lot of experience on datamining, complex events processing and real-time visibility of business intelligence products (like RTView).

Hope to see you soon too.

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hello there,

As a graphic designer it would be great to work with you on this project. I’ve seen that there is no designers/artists collaborators in this group so I think I can add something to the mix!

Oriol.

10 Respuesta por kc

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hello

@ Markovnikov: wonderful!, we would love to have somebody with your experience.
@ goodhill: psychologist and IT engineer, interesting background smile & experience in datamining could be useful.
@ Oriol: you're very welcome

great to see so much interest in our project. We are really looking forward to meeting you all.


see you soon.
Keyvan & Katrin.

11 Respuesta por franbardaro

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hola,
mi nombre es Francesca y quiero colaborar en este proyecto.
Mi formación es de Artes y Tecnicas del Espectaculo Digital (Unversidad La Sapienza -Italia).
Actualmente estoy en el Master de Scenografìa y Sistemas Interactivos en el Frank Mohr Institut (Groningen - Holanda).
Actualmente me estoy dedicando al video y sistemas interactivos para la visualizaciòn en el espacio también con performers.
Me gusta pintar y cualquier forma de expresiòn artistica y creativa que se pueda unir con los nuevos medios.
Espero poder colaborar en la manera mejor posible en lo que se pueda.

Francesca

12 Respuesta por keyvan

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Francesca: sorry for the late reply! We've started work on the project at the medialab and you're very welcome to join us. There's also a link to the wiki now which will give more information on the direction of the project and more up to date information.

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Re: Hydro Status of Now

Hola!
Gracias por contestarme.
De toda manera llegaré el dia 18 en Madrid y espero de dar os mi ayuda en cualquier manera aunqué llegaré con retraso por problemas de trabajo.
Gracias!
Nos vemos pronto!
Francesca