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Hydroinformatics engineers participate in defining, building and supplying the tools that enable decisionmakers to manage aquatic resources and the environment. List of topics for projects in water resources engineering is numerous. Hydroinformatics in hydrology, hydrogeology and water resources. Finally, section 6 discusses some of the current issues of debate in the field. Hydroinformatics for integrated water resources management overview worlds water resources are under severe stress due to demands arising from increasing human population and the resulting pollution due to deforestation, urbanization and intensification of agriculture. Hydroinformatics, as an interdisciplinary domain that blurs boundaries between water science, data science and computer science, is constantly evolving and reinventing itself. Combining hydroeconomic and water quality modeling for.
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