SMARTER WATER ● Dr. Jer Hayes and Dr. Emanuele Ragnoli IBM ● Alchemist Cafe15th November 2011

People only think about water when there is too much of it or too little of it. However, managing a city's water infrastructure presents significant challenges. Similar in extent to electricity infrastructure, it tends to connect to every house and property. By 2030, it is expected that 60 percent of the world's population, or nearly five billion people, will live in cities, putting an overwhelming strain on already overburdened water infrastructure. Much of a city's water infrastructure runs underground, out of sight of the average person. They will discuss the work they have undertaken with the support of Dublin City Council to highlight the hidden water network and which will be part of the Science Gallery's Future of water exhibition.  They will also describe their adventures on several of the other water projects they have and are currently involved in; and which can be described as 'environmental informatics'.

Dr. Jer Hayes and Dr. Emanuele Ragnoli are Research Scientists at the IBM Dublin Research Lab. Emanuele has a background in Mathematics while Jer has a background in Computer Science. Both are committed to making science more open to people and emphasising the highly practical role science plays in our lives.

Date: Tuesday 15th November 2011
Location: Science Gallery TCD

Camera: Marek Bogacki
Produced by DOCUMENTAVI 2010

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Water
• Resources