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Hydroinformatics (or water informatics) can be seen as a synergetic use of modelling tools and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within a single methodological approach dealing with physical, social and economic aspects of sustainable water management. This interdisciplinary field, which transcends traditional boundaries of water/environmental science and engineering, informatics/computer science (including Artificial Intelligence, data mining and optimisation techniques) and environmental engineering, has applications in various areas of water management, including:

• development and application of decision-support systems, simulation and optimization models to improve understanding and provide solutions to water engineering problems;
• computational tools and techniques and their effective application to managing risk and uncertainties associated with water systems;
• cross-disciplinary complex system approaches to water resource management;
• understanding of water systems, including technical, socio-economic and environmental issues.

On this module, you will improve your understanding of water systems (supply, drainage, flood management, structural/non-structural measures, risk management, their impact on social structures/interactions, etc), ICT and operations research techniques (simulation, optimisation, data mining/ machine learning, Geographic Information Systems, Bayesian Belief Networks, etc.) with a view of integrating them into a systems analytic context to analyse and solve problems in water resource design, planning and management practice. By the end of this module, you should have a strong grasp of a number of Hydroinformatics tools and be able to develop or use the developed tools to model and optimise various water resource systems, as well as present your findings making sure the content is accurate, teaches the audience something, but in a way that is new, updated and technologically advanced. 

_{Please note that all modules are subject to change, please get in touch if you have any questions about this module.}