Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation
Abstract Digital twins are transforming the paradigm of water management and water hazard mitigation globally, facilitating more effective governance. However, comprehensive digitalisation at the basin scale still faces major challenges in data, modelling, policy incentives, and, most critically, wi...
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| description | Abstract Digital twins are transforming the paradigm of water management and water hazard mitigation globally, facilitating more effective governance. However, comprehensive digitalisation at the basin scale still faces major challenges in data, modelling, policy incentives, and, most critically, widespread inequity. This article outlines a framework for building widely applicable digital-twin basins and addressing the main obstacles. Ensuring high-quality water data requires more comprehensive and well-controlled data aggregation and provision protocols. Significant improvements to the existing data infrastructure are necessary to support this effort. Most existing water models are not effectively integrated and do not include multi-physics to reflect all essential correlated physical processes at the basin scale. The current advancement in physics-informed data-driven approaches may provide a solution. Furthermore, global initiatives are critical to reducing major inequity in less developed regions, particularly the Global South, during digitalisation. It is imperative that researchers, practitioners and policymakers take decisive actions to prioritise research and allocate resources to foster transboundary collaborations towards integrated and extensive digital-twin basin systems, promoting the sustainability and resilience of global water resources. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e4ffaf326e3048ed95443ab090b46ea52024-12-15T12:06:36ZengNature Portfolionpj Natural Hazards2948-21002024-12-01111710.1038/s44304-024-00047-2Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigationYifan Yang0Chen Xie1Ziwu Fan2Zhonghou Xu3Bruce W. Melville4Guoqing Liu5Lei Hong6State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan UniversityHydraulic Engineering Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteHydraulic Engineering Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteNational Institute of Water and Atmospheric ResearchDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of AucklandHydraulic Engineering Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteHydraulic Engineering Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteAbstract Digital twins are transforming the paradigm of water management and water hazard mitigation globally, facilitating more effective governance. However, comprehensive digitalisation at the basin scale still faces major challenges in data, modelling, policy incentives, and, most critically, widespread inequity. This article outlines a framework for building widely applicable digital-twin basins and addressing the main obstacles. Ensuring high-quality water data requires more comprehensive and well-controlled data aggregation and provision protocols. Significant improvements to the existing data infrastructure are necessary to support this effort. Most existing water models are not effectively integrated and do not include multi-physics to reflect all essential correlated physical processes at the basin scale. The current advancement in physics-informed data-driven approaches may provide a solution. Furthermore, global initiatives are critical to reducing major inequity in less developed regions, particularly the Global South, during digitalisation. It is imperative that researchers, practitioners and policymakers take decisive actions to prioritise research and allocate resources to foster transboundary collaborations towards integrated and extensive digital-twin basin systems, promoting the sustainability and resilience of global water resources.https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-024-00047-2 |
| spellingShingle | Yifan Yang Chen Xie Ziwu Fan Zhonghou Xu Bruce W. Melville Guoqing Liu Lei Hong Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation npj Natural Hazards |
| title | Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation |
| title_full | Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation |
| title_fullStr | Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation |
| title_short | Digital twinning of river basins towards full-scale, sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation |
| title_sort | digital twinning of river basins towards full scale sustainable and equitable water management and disaster mitigation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-024-00047-2 |
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