Center for Water Informatics and technology

LUMS students continue to make their mark at international platforms. Syed Muhammad Abbas, a PhD candidate at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering and a Research Associate at the Centre for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT), LUMS, recently presented his research at...

Dr. Fozia Parveen, Fellow and Faculty at WIT, participated in Women of the World (WOW) Festival which was held in Karachi from December 14-15. Dr. Fozia was a part of the curatorial body that organised the festival this year. Launched by Jude Kelly on the centenary of International Women’s Day, WOW...

The LUMS Centre for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) has deployed and tested an indigenously developed instrument to measure hydrological parameters like snowfall, snow melt-rate, rainfall, temperature, humidity and the resulting water level of the stream of a small catchment having an area...

The LUMS Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) Centre researchers, Abubakr Muhammad, Zahoor Ahmad and Rubab Khalid presented their work at the 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES); IECON held in Washington DC from October 21-23, 2018. Their co-authored paper was...

Taking a lead from the One Belt One Road initiative, The China Pakistan Marine Information Workshop (CPMI) was held in Harbin Engineering University, China, with the aim to promote scientific research, training and collaboration between the two countries. This training workshop took place from...

LUMS Centre for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) actively became part of the Indus Basin workshop held in two parts on August 21-22, 2018 and August 23-24, 2019 at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal, to discuss water, energy and land nexus scenarios...

The Centre for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT), LUMS, in support with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Department of Agriculture, Punjab, has been engaged in developing the Provincial Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Plan and its implementation guidelines (ADRMOP) for Punjab....

Dr. James L. Wescoat, Afreen Siddiqui, Dr. Abubakr Muhammad This paper presents a socio‐hydrologic analysis of channel flows in Punjab province of the Indus River basin in Pakistan. The Indus has undergone profound transformations, from large‐scale canal irrigation in the mid‐nineteenth century to...

On December 4th 2018, an extensive dialogue discussion, co-convened by Centre for Water Informatics & Technology (WIT), based at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in collaboration with Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change held a Dialogue Discussion, the topic being,...

Centre for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT-SBASSE) in support with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Department of Agriculture held a day-long Focused Group Discussion on, ‘Provincial Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Operational Plan’ (ADRMOP) for Punjab on October 18, 2018...

The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan’s most pre-eminent higher education institution, has recently concluded a series of workshops and mini-courses held from October 11-15, 2018 at LUMS in collaboration with the recently established National Agriculture Robotics Lab (NCRA)...