At the conclusion of the 2011 Egypt WaterHackathon, software developers and water specialists presented their innovative ICT-based solutions to real-world problems of water access and sanitation. This presentation highlights one of these solutions.

1. Team Name: Patats.
Member: Mohamed H. El-Trawy.

2. Problem description
 Better water management: decrease amount of unused
water.
 Reducing manual data entry.

3. Inputs
 Defining wells available in the system (farms).
 Defining each Pivot daily water requirements.
 Defining daily total irrigation water needed (Quantity).
 Define Data needed to be reported by pivot staff.

4. Methodology
 We are working on 2 different aspects
1. Irrigation water management system.
2. Data collection system.

5. Irrigation water management system.
 Let the pivot staff report the quantity sucked from each
well and other information on regular intervals and
submit it through the mobile application.
 The server collects data from all pivots and once daily
limit is reached, pumps turned off.
 A water distribution system takes control from here, in
which it open and close valves to distribute water to the
nearest pivot.

6. Water Distribution system
 In which there is pipe lines between pivots.
 Each line ends with a digitally controlled valve which
can be operated on on/off/percent modes.
 Once there is an excess water sucked from one well, it
will be redistributed to the nearest pivot that haven’t
got its daily requirement yet.

7. Data collection system.
• An agent that takes the data from the server and transfer it
to the current expert system.

8. Achievements
 A daily water requirement limit has been reached.
 Less manual data entry by system users.

9. Thanks.