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Why smart water journal?
Smart Water Pub Date : 2016-06-21 , DOI: 10.1186/s40713-016-0001-7
Philippe Gourbesville

Future water shortages require immediate action on development of resources, reduction of demand and higher efficiency in treatment and transmission. Future flood risk management requires immediate action in risk assessment, defence and alleviation systems, forecasting and warning systems and institutional and governance measures. Technology has been revolutionized over recent years and now, matured with mass production allowing wider uptake of methods and devices. After the development phase, technology is now entering an application and implementation phase that is targeting several fields including environment.

At the worldwide scale, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been identified as a key factor for sustainable growth both where efficiency has to be achieved and where alternative to classical engineered solutions could be developed and implemented. In such context, ICT refer to technologies that provide access to information through telecommunications. It is similar to Information Technology (IT), but focuses primarily on communication technologies. This includes the Internet, wireless networks, cell phones, and other communication mediums that are today massively used in modern societies and reshaping deeply current business processes. A low level of maturity concerning standardization of ICT solutions and business processes characterizes the current situation in the water domain. The massive and rapid spread of communicating devices and their application to the industrial sectors is not really coordinated. The implementation of solutions is only driven by opportunities and partial visions that are related most of time to local conditions, demands and resources. The gradual rationalisation of ICT solutions for several domains like energy and water will request a formalization effort in order to identify how solutions may help to improve the water cycle management and provide real added value.

The water cycle can be addressed through three domains that are associated to specific activities and business processes:

Protection of natural environment and ecosystems;
Natural hazards mitigation and disaster prevention;
Water uses.

The first domain considers all actions needed to assess and advice on the environmental impacts of development proposals and projects related to specific water uses. Results are used by regulatory services. The domain covers also all conservation actions of water related ecosystems.

The second domain is focused on water related natural hazards mitigation actions. Floods, droughts, water-borne and vector disease outbreaks, famines, landslide and avalanche events are the processes covered by this domain. Every year, disasters related to meteorological, hydrological and climate hazards cause significant loss of life, and set back economic and social development by years.

The last domain covers the added influence of human activity on the water cycle. Generally, the water uses refer to use of water by agriculture, industry, energy production and households, including in—stream uses such as fishing, recreation, transportation and waste disposal. All of those uses are directly linked to specific activities and processes that are potential targets for deployment of ICT solutions. According to the defined water domains, the water uses represent the largest field where ICT solutions can be developed and implemented. In the coming years, new approaches for the water cycle management will appear with the solutions deployment and their gradual integration within a global Information System (IS) offering interoperability and avoiding redundancy. The development of this approach will request a close collaboration among professionals from various communities: water and IT domains have to work closely for ensuring a consistent vision. For the time being, very few opportunities are offered to the both communities to exchange and to share. The Smart Water journal has the ambition to create a common space where visions, ideas, strategies, scientific results, innovations, technical experimentation results, standards from water and IT domains will be shared and discussed.

The Smart Water Journal is also an initiative of @qua – Smart ICT for Water. The motivation of the @qua entity (www.a-qua.org) which gathers major actors from water and ICT domains, is to ensure the interface with the different actors of the water domain and to elaborate a consistent vision for the future of ICT solutions within the water domain. This activity is essential in order to ensure a productive R&D/IT implementation focused on high benefit “niches” and to develop agile environments (interoperability) able to deal with the massive flow of data (Big Data) and constant technological innovation (M2M). The Smart Water Journal has the vocation to be the platform and the forum where visions can be shared. The journal scope covers emerging domains which overlaps the ICT and the water domain. Obviously the target audience includes researchers, professionals and stakeholders from the water and IT sectors, in particular practitioners from the industrial sector in order to promote standards, guidelines and good practices. The Smart Water Journal is published as an open publication in order to ensure a quick access to the articles and an efficient spreading within the professional communities. A growing numbers of international events are dedicated to the Smart Water concepts and it is essential to offer a specific space where ideas and results can be concentrated and referenced.

The Editorial board that gathers great experts and professionals who have accepted the challenge of the new journal, will be there to receive your contributions, suggestions, comments, advices in order to ensure the journal quality and to be sure that the publication serves the scientific and professional communities. With my colleagues of the board, I hope to hear from you soon either through submissions or ideas you might wish to share.

Dr. Philippe Gourbesville

Editor-in-Chief, SWJ

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Polytech Nice Sophia, Nice Sophia Antipolis University, Nice, France
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Gourbesville, P. Why smart water journal?. Smart Water 1, 1 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40713-016-0001-7

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Received: 07 May 2016
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Published: 21 June 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40713-016-0001-7

中文翻译：

为什么选择智能水日志？

未来的水资源短缺需要立即采取行动，开发资源，减少需求并提高处理和传输效率。未来的洪水风险管理要求在风险评估，防御和缓解系统，预测和预警系统以及机构和治理措施中立即采取行动。近年来，技术已经发生了革命性变化，如今，随着批量生产的成熟，技术和设备的使用越来越广泛。在开发阶段之后，技术现在进入了针对多个领域（包括环境）的应用程序和实施阶段。

在全球范围内，信息和通信技术（ICT）已被认为是可持续增长的关键因素，既要实现效率提高，又要开发和实施传统工程解决方案的替代方案。在这种情况下，ICT是指通过电信提供对信息的访问的技术。它类似于信息技术（IT），但主要侧重于通信技术。这包括Internet，无线网络，手机和其他当今在现代社会中大量使用的通讯介质，它们正在深刻地重塑当前的业务流程。关于ICT解决方案和业务流程标准化的低水平成熟度是水领域当前状况的特征。通信设备及其在工业领域中的广泛快速应用并没有得到真正的协调。解决方案的实施仅由机会和部分愿景驱动，这些机会和愿景通常与当地条件，需求和资源相关。ICT解决方案在能源和水等多个领域的逐步合理化将要求形式化工作，以便确定解决方案如何有助于改善水循环管理并提供真正的增值。

水循环可以通过与特定活动和业务流程相关的三个领域来解决：

保护自然环境和生态系统；
减轻自然灾害和预防灾害；
用水。

第一个领域考虑了针对与特定用水相关的发展建议和项目的环境影响进行评估和建议所需的所有行动。结果由监管服务使用。该领域还涵盖与水有关的生态系统的所有保护行动。

第二个领域侧重于与水有关的减轻自然灾害的行动。洪水，干旱，水源性和病媒暴发，饥荒，山体滑坡和雪崩事件是该领域涵盖的过程。每年，与气象，水文和气候灾害有关的灾害都会造成严重的生命损失，并使数年的经济和社会发展受挫。

最后一个领域涉及人类活动对水循环的附加影响。通常，用水是指农业，工业，能源生产和家庭使用的水，包括诸如捕鱼，娱乐，运输和废物处置之类的流水用途。所有这些用途都与特定活动和过程直接相关，这些活动和过程是部署ICT解决方案的潜在目标。根据定义的水域，用水是可开发和实施ICT解决方案的最大领域。在未来几年中，随着解决方案的部署及其在全球信息系统（IS）中的逐步集成，将出现新的水循环管理方法，从而提供互操作性并避免冗余。这种方法的发展将需要来自各个社区的专业人员之间的密切合作：水和IT领域必须紧密合作以确保一致的愿景。目前，很少有机会提供给两个社区进行交流和分享。Smart Water杂志的志向是创建一个公共空间，在此共享和讨论愿景，想法，策略，科学成果，创新，技术实验结果，水和IT领域的标准。

Smart Water Journal也是@qua – Smart ICT for Water的创举。@qua实体（www.a-qua.org）的动机是收集来自水和ICT领域的主要参与者，以确保与水域不同参与者的联系，并为ICT的未来制定一致的愿景水域内的解决方案。此活动对于确保针对高收益“利基”的高效研发/ IT实施以及开发能够应对海量数据流（大数据）和持续的技术创新（M2M）的敏捷环境（互操作性）至关重要）。Smart Water Journal的使命是成为可以共享愿景的平台和论坛。该期刊的范围涵盖了与ICT和水领域重叠的新兴领域。显然，目标受众包括水务和IT部门的研究人员，专业人员和利益相关者，特别是工业部门的从业人员，以促进标准，指南和良好实践。《智能水杂志》以公开出版物的形式发布，以确保快速访问文章并在专业社区中有效传播。越来越多的国际活动致力于“智能水”概念，因此必须提供一个特定的空间来集中思想和成果，以供参考。

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Philippe Gourbesville博士

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