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Dr.
KAPIL GUPTA, Ph D (Sheffield, UK) Professor Department
of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai,
Mumbai 400076, INDIA Email:
kgupta[at]civil.iitb.ac.in Phone
+91-22-2576 7324 FAX +91-22-2576 7324 |
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International affiliations |
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Indian Project
Investigator for European Union 7FP funded project “CORFU: Collaborative
Research on Flood Resilience in Urban areas” (2010-2014) (http://www.corfu-fp7.eu/) ·
Member - UNESCO International Working Group on Sustainable Urban Water
Strategies, VII IHP, (2008 -2013) ·
Member - International working groups of the IAHR/IWA
Joint Committee on Urban Drainage: o
Sewer Systems and Processes Working Group (SS&PWG), o
Urban Rainfall Group (URG) ·
Member- Editorial
Board: Urban Water Journal ·
Peer reviewer for international archival journals |
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National affiliations |
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Advisor, National Disaster Management Authority,
Government of India, New Delhi •
Convener and Member of Expert Committee for drafting
NDMA Guidelines on Urban Flood Disaster Management (http://ndma.gov.in/ndma/guidelines/Management_Urban_Flooding.pdf) •
Member, Expert Committee for drafting
Manual on Urban Drainage, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
(Note on Return Period and Rainfall Intensity for
Drainage Design in India) |
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Areas of
SPECIALISATION AND RESEARCH
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Water Engineering
o Urban Water Management
o Urban Climate systems and Urban Flood Mitigation
o Urban Drainage and Flood management , Flood Protection Structures
o Hydrologic Disaster Management
o Automation and Early Warning Systems for Urban Flood Alerts
Education
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University of Sheffield, Sheffield,
England, UK, Ph.D., Water and Environmental Engineering –Pollutant
Modelling in Urban Drainage Systems, 1996
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Indian Institute of Technology, Madras,
Chennai, India, M.Tech., Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering,
1987
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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,
India, B.Tech., Civil Engineering, 1984
Awards
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UKIERI (British
Council)
Visiting Fellowship Award, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. December 2012.
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Awarded the ACU
“Quality of Life Award” by the Association of Commonwealth Universities,
London, UK to carry out research at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield,
U.K. during May-June 2003: “Investigation of Invert Trap Configuration for
Minimization of Overflows by Trapping Sediments in Stormwater Channels”.
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Awarded the Royal
Society (London, UK) fellowship to carry out research at the University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, UK during 4th December 2005 to 15th
January 2006 : “Optimization of the Use of Stormwater Channel Invert Traps for
Urban Indian Catchments”
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Awarded the ICEWaRM
- International Centre for Excellence in Water Resource Management (a
Government of Australia initiative) fellowship for academic collaboration at
the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, during 7th
May to 9th June 2006.
Keynote speaker
· “Cities Resilient to
Floods”, UNESCO special session, 12th International Conference on
Urban Drainage, 11-16 September 2011, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
· "Mitigating Urban
Flood Disasters in India", International Urban Water Conference, 15-19 September, 2008, Leuven, Belgium.
· "Real time Decision Support System for Urban Flood Disaster
Management during Extreme Rainfall",
13th National Hydrology
Symposium, Delhi, 28-29 August, 2008.
· " Meeting urban
infrastructural challenges of 21st century: efficient sewerage and drainage
management", All India Seminar on ”Urbanization in India: Meeting
Urban Infrastructural Challenges of the 21st Century: Efficient
Sewerage and Drainage Management”, 5-6 June, 2008, Institution
of Engineers (India): Kolkata.
Professional Training Courses
(CEP)
on “Urban Drainage Management
-State-of-the-Art”
•
Trained over 1300
officers from over 150 organizations (in 66 JNNURM cities) through 34 courses
including UNESCO-WSSC funded international course
•
In-house training
programs (17) for
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Governments of
Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Orissa
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Municipal
Corporations of Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mangalore, Chennai,
Mumbai, Thane, Guwahati, Chennai
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Greater Mohali
Development Authority, Mohali, Punjab
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International
Airports Authority of India. Mumbai
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Open (17) at IIT
Bombay
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Attended by officers
from almost all cities/states/ organisations as well as private consultants
•
International courses at IIT Bombay:
1. TETT (IWA) International Course (UNESCO-IHP/
WHO_WSSCC) at IITBombay, 5-7 Feb., 2003
2. OPEN International Programme at IIT Bombay (3–day) 4-6
January 2007
Consultancy Works
Undertaken several
consultancy works for mitigating urban flooding and drainage problems in major
cities - Mumbai/Navi Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Surat, Chandigarh,
etc.
Key Publications
1.
A SVM Based Model for Short-Term
Rainfall Forecast at Local Scale in the Mumbai Urban Area (India), 2013, J. Hydrol. Eng.,
10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000875 (Jul. 4, 2013) (with Nikam, Vinay).
8. Integrated Approaches to Urban Drainage in Thane City,
2009, J. of the Indian Waterworks Association,
41, 1, 59-64. (with Nikam, Vinay and Lalla, K.D.)
9. Conservation of Thane Creek and Ulhas River Estuary,
India, 2009, J. of Environ. Science & Engg., 51, 3, 157-162. (with
Nikam, Vinay, Kumar, Arun and Lalla, K.D.)
15. Wastewater Disposal in the Major Cities of India, 2006, International Journal of
Environmental Protection, 28,
1 / 2, 57-66.
17. Hydrological Simulation for
sizing treatment plant for reducing pollution in Hussain Sagar Lake, Hyderabad
(India),2006, J. of the Indian Waterworks Association, 38, 2, 15-21
18. The drainage system of Indian cities, 2005,
Waterlines: International J. of
Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation, 23,
4, 22-24.
19. Industrial Wastewater Treatment using Subsurface Flow
Wetland, 2003, J. of the Indian Waterworks Association,
35, 3, 205-215, (with T.V. Reshmidevi).
20. Hydraulic Design of a Constructed Wetland for an Urban
Area, 2002, J. of
the Indian Waterworks Association, 34, 2, 149-152, (with
C. Rajeswaramma).
21. Software review: ILSAX, Software for Urban Drainage
Modelling in a Developing Country, 2001, Waterlines:
International J. of Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation,
19, 3, 26.
22. Sizing On-site Detention in a Developing Country using
ILSAX: Case Study of Jaipur, India, 2000, Australian
J. of Water Resources, 4,
1, 43-50.
23. Discussion paper on "Use of Regression Models for
analyzing Highway Storm-water loads".2000, Journal of Env Eng.
(ASCE), 126, 6,
577-579.
24. Water Quality Management for the Talkatora Lake,
Jaipur- A case study, 1999, Water
Science and Technology, 40, 2, 29-33, (with A.
B. Gupta and R. Jain).
25. Discussion paper on "Systematic Evaluation of
Pollutant Removal by Urban Wet Detention Ponds", 1997, J of Env. Eng.
(ASCE), 123, 11, 1167.
26. Specific Relationships for the First Flush Load in
Combined Sewer Flows, 1996, Water Research, 30,
5, 1244-1252 (with A.J. Saul).
27. Suspended Solids in Combined Sewer Flows, 1996, Water Science and
Technology, 33, 9, 93-99 (with A.J. Saul).
28. Udaipur Water Supply Augmentation Project: Estimation
of Yield for Wakal-I Dam, 1992, J.
of the Indian Waterworks Association, 24, 3, 253-256, (with K.K
Tripathi).
29. Residential Water Conservation in an Urban Area of
Rajasthan: A Pilot Study, 1992, J.
of the Indian Waterworks Association, 24, 2, 217-219 (with N.K
Purohit, P. Thakkar, and O.P. Chhangani).
30. Multiobjective Planning in Small Watersheds, 1990, J. of the Inst. of
Engineers (India), 70, CV6, 193-196 (with H. Raman and S.
Vasudevan).
Refereed conferences/
proceedings
1.
Vulnerability assessment of flood protection
structures on Mithi River, Mumbai, India. IWWA 45th Annual Convention,
Pune, 10-12 January, 2013 (with K. Mujiburrehman, Nikam V. S)
2.
Technological and Innovative Measures to Improve Flood
Disaster Recovery following Mumbai 2005 Mega-flood International Workshop on Disaster Recovery: Used or Misused Development Opportunity, University of Kyoto, Kyoto,
Japan, 3-4 December 2012 (with Vinay Nikam),
3.
Towards Flood
Resilient Cities in India, International Conference on Urban Flood management, UNESCO, Paris, France, 25-27 November
2009,
4.
Realtime rainfall
forecast model for extreme monsoon rainfall conditions in an urban area, EWRI- ASCE International Conference on Water Resources and
Environment, Chennai, 5-7 January 2010 (with Vinay Nikam)
5.
Rainfall forecast
model for extreme monsoon rainfall conditions,
8th International
Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling at University of Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 September, 2009 (with Vinay
Nikam).
6.
Role of water
sensitive urban design (WSUD) in reducing urban flood disasters under extreme
monsoon rainfall conditions, WSUD 2009 Conference, Perth, Australia, 5-8 May 2009 (with Vinay Nikam).
7.
Mitigating urban
flood disasters in India. (Keynote
speaker), International
Urban Water Conference,
Leuven, Belgium, 15-19 September, 2008.
8.
Strategies for
Integrated Urban Drainage Management in Monsoon Rainfall Areas with Special
Reference to India, International Symposium on New Directions in
Urban Water Management, 12-14
September 2007, UNESCO, Paris, France.
9.
Stormwater Flow
Modelling of Mithi River Catchment in Mumbai, Proceedings,
2nd International Conference
on Sewer Operation and Maintenance,Vienna, Austria, 26-28 October 2006 (with M. Sharma).
10.
Optimization of Sediment Trap Configuration using CFD Modeling, Proceedings, 10th International
Conference on Urban Drainage, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-26 August 2005 (with P. Mehta, T. Thinglas, S.J. Tait,
V. Stovin).
11. Dynamic Modeling of
Detention Tanks for Flood Control in Urban Drainage Systems in Developing
Countries, Proceedings, 10th International
Conference on Urban Drainage, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-26 August 2005 (with Sreeja, P.).
12.
Interactions
between Sewers, the Urban Wastewater System and Receiving Waters in Hyderabad,
India, Proceedings, 4th International
Conference on Sewer Processes and Networks, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 22-24 November, 2004, 11-20.
13.
An Early Warning System for Improving
Resiliency of Transport Systems in Urban Areas during Natural Disasters, Proceedings, World Congress on Natural
Disaster Mitigation, New Delhi,
India, February 19-22, 2004,
529-532.
14.
Urban Drainage and Flooding Issues in India, presented at WAPUG (Wastewater Planning
Users Group) Spring Meeting 2003, Birmingham, England, U.K., 14 May, 2003
15.
Real time control strategy for urban drainage management in India,
International Conference on Water and Wastewater: Perspectives of Developing
Countries, Delhi, India, 11-13 December, 2002, 351-358. (with Sreeja, P.);
16.
Stormwater management in metros of India, 1st International
Conference on Sewer Operation and Maintenance, Bradford, UK, 26-28 November,
2002;
17.
Stormwater Flow Modeling of Catchment 125 (Mumbai) using DRAINS, 1st
International Conference on Sewer Operation and Maintenance, Bradford, UK, 26-28 November,
2002; (with Deepak
Shukla)
18.
Urban Wetland Design in Developing Countries, 9th
International Conf. on Urban Drainage, Portland, Oregon, USA,
8 - 13 Sep 2002, (with C. Rajeswaramma);
19.
Stormwater management for a Mumbai Suburb (India), 9th
International Conf. on Urban Drainage, Portland, Oregon, USA, 8 - 13 Sep 2002, (with C. Hauser);
20.
Problems in Modelling On-Site Detention in A Developing Country:
Case study of Jaipur, India, 8th International Conf. on Urban Storm Drainage, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, 31 August - 3 Sept 1999, pp. 365-372, (with D. Sharma and S. Jain);
21.
Problems in Modelling Stormflows in A Developing Country: Case
Study of Jaipur, India, 4th International Conf. On Urban Drainage
Modelling, Imperial College, London, UK, 20-24 Sept 1998, pp. 817-822, (with D. Sharma and S. Jain);
22. Gross solids characteristics and an event
based CSO efficiency prediction methodology International Conf. on Urban
Drainage Modelling, Imperial College, London, UK, 20-24 Sept 1998, pp. 373-382 (with A.J. Saul and V. Stovin);
23. Storage Tank Design for The Retention of
Pollutants in Urban Drainage Systems, III International Conf. on
Environmental Planning and Management, Nagpur, India, 24-26 February, 1996, 342-347.
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