FREEWAT (FREE and open source software tools for WATer resource management) is a HORIZON 2020 project financed by the EU Commission under the call WATER INNOVATION: BOOSTING ITS VALUE FOR EUROPE. FREEWAT's main result is an open source and public domain GIS integrated modelling environment (the FREEWAT platform) for the simulation of water quantity and quality in surface water and groundwater with an integrated water management and planning module.
If you are interested in water management and in simulation tools please visit the Software and Training page of this web site. FREEWAT is conceived as a composite plugin for the well-known GIS open source desktop software QGIS (http://qgis.org).
As composite plugin, FREEWAT is designed as a modular ensemble of different tools: some of them can be used independently, while some modules require the preliminary execution of other tools.
In this framework, the following tool classifications can be defined:
Read more details about the upcoming remote training programme (5th March - 3rd June) here http://www.freewat.eu/news/new-round-of%C2%A0freewat-remote-training.
The Freewat software can be found here http://www.freewat.eu/software-0
This article was contributed to the India Water Portal by Craig D'Souza from Datameet, Pune.