1. Rodolfo Nobrega Research Assistant Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

2. What is the CISA Project? Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG) Technology and Natural Resources Center Civil Engineering Department/Water Resources Engineering Area Joint ICASALS/TTU – UFCG Projects CISTERNAS Project SegHidro Project My visit to TTU

4. 1.Short-term Graduate Students Exchanges 2.Technical visits by researchers 3.Thematic meetings, workshops and mini courses 4.Research activities in selected watersheds in Northeast Brazil.

5. Public Policies for Semiarid regions Methodologies applied to the use of Non- Conventional Water Resources Water Resources Management

6. Artificial Groundwater Recharge Wastewater Reuse Water Treatment Methodologies Water Desalination and reject use Water Harvesting for human and animal use

7. What is the CISA Project? Federal University of Campina Grande Technology and Natural Resources center Water Resources Engineering Area The Projects related with this interchange at TTU CISTERNAS Project SegHidro Project My visit to TTU

9. About 120 faculty Departments: Atmospheric Sciences, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering and Agricultural Engineering. 34 Laboratories

10. 10 full-time Professors 3 Laboratories Hydraulics Lab I Hydraulics Lab II School and Experimental Basin

11. What is the CISA Project? Federal University of Campina Grande Technology and Natural Resources center Water Resources Engineering Area The Projects related with this interchange at TTU CISTERNAS Project SegHidro Project My visit to TTU

12. Rainwater harvesting to supplement drinking water supply in rural areas Research on the institutional and sanitary aspects of the management of the rainwater harvesting. Field work in rural communities of Brazilian Semiarid

13. To identify the relation between existing water laws and the institutions responsible for rainwater harvesting with cistern systems in rural areas of Northeastern Brazil. To evaluate the application of federal water policies at the local level.

15. Cisterns Health care system Water Management Sanitary and Environmental Education Governmental Policies and Programs Early Warning Systems

16. The SegHidro is a Decision Support System conceived as computational platform that provides: The aggregation of computing and storage resources through grid computing middleware. The sharing of data. The discovery of data and resources through a distributed information service. The coupling of models through a workflow composition tool. Tools for enabling communication among users.

17. Current implementations: Module for: data, storage and simulation models. Simulation models of basin, aquifer and harvesting systems behavior Groundwater modelling Regional impact of climate change scenarios

18. What is the CISA Project? Federal University of Campina Grande Technology and Natural Resources center Water Resources Engineering Area The Projects related with this interchange at TTU CISTERNAS Project SegHidro Project My visit to TTU

19. To diagnose some of the most important legal and institutional frameworks related to rainwater harvesting and aquifer management of the State of Texas. To improve the Early Warning System (EWS) under development by considering the uncertainties associated to climate forecasting, monitored data and model parameterization.

21. Basic approaches to scenario generation and evaluation. Experiments in Brazilian semiarid aquifers and rainwater harvesting systems had been made. These experiments improved the parameterization of small shallow aquifers and showed which EWS components had to be improved.

22. Cooperation meetings and understands : II WASLIC/ICASALS Conference in Gravatá – Brazil Partnership between ICASALS (Dr. A. C. Correa) and CISA (Dr. Carlos Galvao, UFCG) to appoint faculty and student exchange. ICASALS and WRC’s experience on semi-arid aquifer modeling and management. State of Texas advanced institutional framework on rainwater harvesting.

24. Improvement of the scenario generator and evaluation procedures uncertainties associated to input variables to take into account. Water demands. Seasonal rainfall forecasts. Models parameterization. Physical characteristics of aquifers and rainwater harvesting systems with cisterns.

25. Sumé shallow aquifer, Paraiba, Brazil. Relationship between groundwater availability and water demands

26. Parameterization of the small shallow aquifer Seasonal climate forecasts Hydraulic heads estimate Hydraulic heads variation Uncertanties: water demands, seasonal rainfall forecasts, and characteristics of aquifer.

27. Rainwater harvesting with cisterns SJC1 Cistern

28. SJC1 Cistern: estimate vs observed water volume in storage. Water Demand and Model Parameterization Uncertainties

29. Legal and Institutional Aspects Brazilian public health regulations do not address the quality of water in cisterns.

30. Which TX government policies promote water harvesting through small systems? What are integrated (Federal, State and Municipal) water harvesting policies? What are the legal aspects of water harvesting in Texas? What are the characteristics of the Texas harvesting practices that could be applied in Northeastern Brasil?

31. Activities schedule 1. Data collection; 2. Data analysis and report writing ; 3. Improvement of modeling algorithms based on Texas water harvesting practice. Oct/2009Nov/2009Dec/2009Jan/2010 Weeks Activities 1 - 23 - 45 – 67 - 89 - 1011- 12 1 2 3

32. Rodolfo Nobrega rodolfo@hidro.ufcg.edu.br CISA Project Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brasil