Prof Hector Malano

Research Interests
water resource management
water allocation
irrigation
water management
conjunction management surface and ground water

Hector graduated in Agricultural Engineering in 1973 at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. In 1981 he was awarded a Masters degree in Irrigation and Drainage Engineering from Utah State University (USA) for research carried out into the behaviour of infiltration under surge flow hydraulics.

He was subsequently awarded a PhD in Irrigation Engineering from the same university in 1985 for his research into two-dimensional numerical modelling of interceptor drains. In 2006, he was appointed Head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.

Hector has conducted research on various aspects of water resources at three scales: (i) On-farm modelling of surface irrigation systems, (ii) Modelling of irrigation distribution networks; and (iii) water allocation between competing uses at the catchment level (iv) Management and modelling of the urban water cycle with special emphasis on complex systems. This research focuses on the design of evidence based planning policies for achieving fit-for-purpose utilisation of multiple sources and multiple demands of water.

Hector has extensive involvement in international professional and research organisations. More recently, he concluded a 3-year term as Vice-President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage. He has consulted for several international organisations including the World Bank, AusAID and Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

Hector has authored and co-authored over 150 scientific papers on these topics. He is currently Chief Investigator of several research grants including Allocation Modelling in the Krishna Basin (India), Regional and Economic Benefits Through Smarter Irrigation (Hydraulic Modelling). He is the node coordinator of the CRC for Irrigation Futures and is involved in the CRC for eWater.

Departmental Research Group involvement:
Hydrology
Global research profiles:
ORCID: 0000-0001-6387-7078
ResearchID: F-1562-2015
Scopus Author ID: 6603386419

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FEATURED Journal article

Estimation of industrial water demand in India using census-based statistical data

Hector Malano's selected work

International Workshop On Adaptation Of Water Resources Management To Climate Change

Research Grant

The opportunity costs of increasing reliability in irrigation systems

Journal article

Establishing A State-Level Systemic And Adaptive Water Governance Authority Of Excellence ..

Research Grant

Are We Objective? A Study into the Effectiveness of Risk Measurement in the Water Industry

Journal article

An End-User Multi-Sectoral Urban Water Demand Model

Research Contracts

Irrigation-Induced Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks and Their Impacts on Indian Summer Monsoon

Journal article

Projects

Displaying the 21 most recent projects by Hector Malano.

International Workshop On Adaptation Of Water Resources Management To Climate Change

2014 - 2015

Completed

Establishing A State-Level Systemic And Adaptive Water Governance Authority Of Excellence In India

2011 - 2014

Completed

An End-User Multi-Sectoral Urban Water Demand Model

2011 - 2014

Completed

Impacts Of Climate Change And Watershed Development On Whole-Of-Basin Agricultural Water Security In The Krishna And Murray-Darling Basins

2010 - 2015

Completed

The Impact Of Rainwater Tanks At The Whole-Of-Urban Water System Scale: Probable Water Savings

2010 - 2010

Completed

Australia-India Workshop On The Future Of Water Security Under Climate Change

2009 - 2009

Completed

Soil Moisture Remote Setting

2009

Active

Future Water Supply And Demand Assessment In Peri-Urban Catchments Using System Dynamic Approach - Student Project

2009 - 2009

Completed

Water Allocation In The Krishna River Basin To Improve Water Productivity In Agriculture

2008 - 2009

Completed

Conjunctive Surface-Groundwater Allocation For Connected Systems To Minimise Productivity And Environmental Risks

2008 - 2013

Completed

Sharing Modelling Methodologies And Results To Foster Synergies Between Aciar Water Research Projects

Completed

Project Agreement 2.10: Improved Seasonality Of Flows Through Irrigation Demand Management & System Harmonisation- Prof S Khan

Crc If Postgraduate Scholarships Awarded To Nick Carr

Crcif Postgrad Scholarship For Matthew Berrisford

Student Project Agreement - Crc If Scholarship Agreement With Edward Mosley: The Social And Environmental Benefits Of Urban Irrigation In Public Open Spaces

Services Agreement - Soil Moisture Remote Sensing

Completed

Aciar Workshop June 2012

Completed

Crc For Irrigation Futures

Water Allocation In The Krishna River Basin To Improve Water Productivity In Agriculture

Uni Melbourne System Harmonisation Research

Crcif Postgraduate Scholarships Awarded To Avril Horne

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Projects

Project Types

Research Contracts

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 186 most recent scholarly works by Hector Malano.

Estimation of industrial water demand in India using census-based statistical data

Naveen Joseph, Dongryeol Ryu, Hector M Malano, Biju George, KP Sudheer, undefined Anshuman

Journal article | 2019 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling

The opportunity costs of increasing reliability in irrigation systems

B Davidson, P Hellegers, B George, H Malano

Journal article | 2019 | Agricultural Water Management

Are We Objective? A Study into the Effectiveness of Risk Measurement in the Water Industry

Anna Kosovac, Brian Davidson, Hector Malano

Journal article | 2019 | Sustainability

A survey of 77 water practitioners within Melbourne, Australia, highlighted the lack of objectiveness within current risk scoring ..

Irrigation-Induced Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks and Their Impacts on Indian Summer Monsoon

Chihchung Chou, Dongryeol Ryu, Min-Hui Lo, Hao-Wei Wey, Hector M Malano

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Climate

Integrated Evaluation of Hybrid Water Supply Systems Using a PROMETHEE-GAIA Approach

Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Ashok Sharma, Magnus Moglia

Journal article | 2018 | Water

Understandin the impact of hybrid water supply systems on wastewater and stormwater flows

Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Magnus Moglia, Ashok Sharma, Francis Pamminger

Journal article | 2018 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling

A novel generic optimization method for irrigation scheduling under multiple objectives and multiple hierarchical layers in a canal network

Dilini Delgoda, Hector Malano, Syed K Saleem, Malka N Halgamuge

Journal article | 2017 | Advances in Water Resources

Prediction of urban residential end-use water demands by integrating known and unknown water demand drivers at multiple scales II: Model application and validation

K Rathnayaka, H Malano, M Arora, B George, S Maheepala, B Nawarathna

Journal article | 2017 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Prediction of urban residential end-use water demands by integrating known and unknown water demand drivers at multiple scales I: Model development

K Rathnayaka, H Malano, M Arora, B George, S Maheepala, B Nawarathna

Journal article | 2017 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Hybrid Water Supply Systems

M Sapkota, M Arora, H Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2017

Traditional urban water systems based on centralised only water supply are facing challenges to meet the increasing water demand d..

Putting the personal into risk measurement: exploring the roles of psychological and sociological factors in the perception of risk in the water industry

A Kosovac, A Davidson, H Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2017

Adaptive policy responses to climate change scenarios in the musi catchment, India

B Davidson, B George, H Malano, P Hellegers

Conference Proceedings | 2017 | Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering

Assessment of Sustainability of Urban Water Supply and Demand Management Options: A Comprehensive Approach

Kumudu Rathnayaka, Hector Malano, Meenakshi Arora

Journal article | 2016 | Water

Editorial

HM Malano, KS Yoon

Journal article | 2016 | Melbourne Art Journal

Irrigation control based on model predictive control (MPC): Formulation of theory and validation using weather forecast data and AQUACROP model

D Delgoda, H Malano, S Saleem, MN Halgamuge

Journal article | 2016 | Environmental Modelling & Software

Abstract This research proposes A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK based on model predictive control (MPC) for irrigation control to minimize..

Root zone soil moisture prediction models based on system identification: Formulation of the theory and validation using field and AQUACROP data

D Delgoda, SK Saleem, H Malano, MN Halgamuge

Journal article | 2016 | Agricultural Water Management

An Integrated Simulation and Visualisation Platform for the Design of Sustainable Urban Developments in a Peri-Urban Context

Meenakshi Arora, Ngo Tuan, Lu Aye, Hector Malano, Oliver Lade

Book Chapter | 2016 | Water Science and Technology Library

An Integrated Framework for Assessment of Hybrid Water Supply Systems

Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Magnus Moglia, Ashok Sharma, Biju George, Francis Pamminger

Journal article | 2016 | Water

Life Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Analysis of Groundwater-Based Irrigation Systems

Sharmila Acharya, Biju George, Lu Aye, Sudeep Nair, Bandara Nawarathna, Hector Malano

Journal article | 2015 | Irrigation and Drainage

Productivity and water use of grazed subsurface drip irrigated perennial pasture in Australia

Lucy Finger, QJ Wang, Hector Malano, Deli Chen, Michael Morris

Journal article | 2015 | Irrigation Science

Mapping Flooded Rice Paddies Using Time Series of MODIS Imagery in the Krishna River Basin, India

Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Dongryeol Ryu, Biju George, Jeffrey P Walker, Hector M Malano

Journal article | 2015 | Remote Sensing

Seasonal Demand Dynamics of Residential Water End-Uses

K Rathnayaka, H Malano, S Maheepala, B George, B Nawarathna, M ARORA, P Roberts

Journal article | 2015 | Water

An Overview of Hybrid Water Supply Systems in the Context of Urban Water Management: Challenges and Opportunities

M Sapkota, M ARORA, H Malano, M Moglia, A Sharma, B George, F Pamminger

Journal article | 2015 | Water

Interactions between centralized and decentralized water systems in urban context: A review

M Arora, H Malano, B Davidson, R Nelson, B George

Journal article | 2015 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water

Comment on the Reference to Makkink Potential Evaporation Equation

TA McMahon, HM Malano, B Schultz

Journal article | 2015 | Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Factors affecting the variability of household water use in Melbourne, Australia

K Rathnayaka, S Maheepala, B Nawarathna, B George, H Malano, M Arora, P Roberts

Journal article | 2014 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Estimation of the environmental risk of regulated river flow

Kilisimasi Latu, Hector M Malano, Justin F Costelloe, Tim J Peterson

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Hydrology

Water-energy-greenhouse gas nexus of urban water systems: Review of concepts, state-of-art and methods

Sudeep Nair, Biju George, Hector M Malano, Meenakshi Arora, Bandara Nawarathna

Journal article | 2014 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Effective management for acidic pollution in the canal network of the Mekong Delta of Vietnam: A modeling approach

Dang Phong Ngo, Thai Hoanh Chu, Phuc Tuong To, Hector Malano

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Environmental Management

Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-urban Futures

Hector Malano, B Maheshwari, Vijay P Singh, Ramesh Purohit, P Amerasinghe

Book Chapter | 2014 | Water Science and Technology Library

Securing Water Supply in Western Sydney: An Analysis of Water Use, Demand and Availability in the South Creek Catchment

Ranvir Singh, Basant Maheshwari, Hector Malano

Book Chapter | 2014 | Water Science and Technology Library

A fair irrigation scheduling method prioritizing on the individual needs of the crops and infrastructure limitations

D Delgoda, MN Halgamuge, H Malano, SK Saleem

Conference Proceedings | 2014 | 21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshop 2014: Improving Water Quality and the Environment

Integrated Water Cycle Modelling of the Urban/Peri-urban Continuum

Hector Malano, Meenakshi Arora, K Rathnayaka

Book Chapter | 2014 | Water Science and Technology Library

Mutopia: platform for envisioning future and transition scenarios of sustainable urban developments

T NGO, L Aye, M Arora, P Mendis, H Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2014

Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Decentralised Water Supply Strategies in Peri-urban Areas of Sydney

Lu Aye, Bandara Nawarathna, Biju George, Sudeep Nair, Hector Malano

Book Chapter | 2014 | Water Science and Technology Library

Valuing the Water Used in Peri-urban Regions of Hyderabad, India and in Western Sydney, Australia

Brian Davidson, Hector Malano, Petra Hellegers, Biju George, Bandara Nawarathna

Book Chapter | 2014 | Water Science and Technology Library

Water cycle modelling of peri-urban hydroecological systems: A case study of the South Creek catchment, Australia

R Singh, B Maheshwari, HM Malano

Journal article | 2014 | Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology

The hydrological and economic impacts of changing water allocations in political regions within the peri-urban South Creek catchment in Western Sydney II: Scenarios

Brian Davidson, Hector Malano, Bandara Nawarathna, Basant Maheshwari

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Hydrology

The hydrological and economic impacts of changing water allocation in political regions within the peri-urban South Creek catchment in Western Sydney I: Model development

Brian Davidson, Hector Malano, Bandara Nawarathna, Basant Maheshwari

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Hydrology

Water-Energy-GHG emissions accounting for urban water supply: A case study on an urban redevelopment in Melbourne

M Arora, L Aye, HM Malano, TD Ngo

Journal article | 2013 | Water Utility Journal

This paper presents a conceptual accounting framework to quantify the life cycle energy use and GHG emissions of alternative urban..

Multiple Model Predictive Flood Control in Regulated River Systems with Uncertain Inflows

Dilini K Delgoda, Syed K Saleem, Malka N Halgamuge, Hector Malano

Journal article | 2013 | Water Resources Management

Development of a framework to evaluate the hybrid water supply systems

M Sapkota, M Arora, H Malano, B George, B Nawarathna, A Sharma, M Moglia

Conference Proceedings | 2013 | Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Reallocating water for the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia

AB Davidson, HM Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2013 | Green growth and water allocation

An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India

R Nune, B George, H Malano, B Nawarathna, B Davidson, D Ryu

Conference Proceedings | 2013 | Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Seasonal Water Allocation: Dealing with Hydrologic Variability in the Context of a Water Rights System

Hang Zheng, Zhongjing Wang, Siyi Hu, Hector Malano

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

A System Dynamics Framework for Assessing the Environmental Sustainability of Urban Water Systems

S P S, HM Malano, BA George, M Arora, BN Nawarathna

Conference Proceedings | 2013 | Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Model predictive control for real-time irrigation scheduling

SK Saleem, DK Delgoda, SK Ooi, KB Dassanayake, L Liu, MN Halgamuge, H Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2013 | Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Conference on Modelling and Control in Agriculture, Horticulture and Post Harvest Industry

ENERGY AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION ACCOUNTING FRAMEWORK FOR GROUNDWATER USE IN AGRICULTURE

Alice Tyson, Biju George, Lu Aye, Bandara Nawarathna, Hector Malano

Journal article | 2012 | Irrigation and Drainage

Sustainable Urban Water Management

M Arora, HM Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2012 | Proceedings of XII International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology, Energy and Global Sustainable Development

Water-Energy-GHG emissions accounting framework for urban water supply and wastewater treatment options

M Arora, L Aye, HM Malano, TD Ngo

Conference Proceedings | 2012 | Proceedings of IWA World Water Congress

Innovative modelling and visualisation platform for sustainable cities - MUtopia

PA Mendis, TD Ngo, L Aye, HM Malano, A Rajabifard

Conference Proceedings | 2012 | Proceedings of ICSBE2012

Now more than half the world’s population lives in towns and cities and this proportion will rise to nearly two thirds by 2030. Ma..

Water

HM Malano, B Davidson

Book Chapter | 2012

An integrated hydro-economic modelling framework to evaluate water allocation strategies I: Model development

Biju George, Hector Malano, Brian Davidson, Petra Hellegers, Luna Bharati, Sylvain Massuel

Journal article | 2011 | Agricultural Water Management

An integrated hydro-economic modelling framework to evaluate water allocation strategies II: Scenario assessment

Biju George, Hector Malano, Brian Davidson, Petra Hellegers, Luna Bharati, Sylvain Massuel

Journal article | 2011 | Agricultural Water Management

Using real options analysis to evaluate the impacts of climate change on water security

B Davidson, H Malano, B George, B Nawarathna, D Ryu

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proc 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Review of residential urban water end-use modelling

K Rathnayaka, H Malano, S Maheepala, B Nawarathna, B George, M Arora

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand

A modeling framework to evaluate climate change and watershed development impacts on water security

B George, B Davidson, B Nawarathna, D Ryu, H Malano, A Kulkarni, S Patwardhan, N Deshpande, P Pavelic, J Anshuman, K Kumar

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proc 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Integrated water-energy-GHG management for a sustainable future

M Arora, HM Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proceedings of International Urban Design Conference

New approach for estimating the environmental risk of a river basin

K Latu, J Costelloe, HM Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proceedings of the 34th IAHR World Congress

A top-down approach to understand the effect of vegetation changes on stream salinity

NM Malana, J Costelloe, HM Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proc 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

A scenario planning approach to climate change adaptation in water management

HM Malano, A Anshuman, BA George, B Davidson, P Pavelic, K Kumar

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Vth World Aqua Congress

Groundwater risk estimation of a river basin

K Latu, J Costelloe, HM Malano

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proceedings of the 34th IAHR World Congress

Analysis of Spectral Measurements in Paddy Rice Field: Implications for Land Use Classification

D Ryu, P Teluguntla, H Malano, B George, B Nawarathna, A Radha

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proc 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Identifying differences in the regionalisation of low flows and low flow salinity

NM Malana, J Costelloe, HM Malano, AW Western

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Proc 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Modelling and decision making in water resource management

HM Malano

Book Chapter | 2010 | Iahs Publication

An integrated model for simulation of border-check irrigated dairy pasture production systems

P Douglas, KB Dassanayake, DF Chapman, IR Johnson, M Khanna, H Malano

Journal article | 2010 | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Integrated land use and multiple water supply-demand modelling framework: a Peri-Urban case study

BNN Nawarathna, HMM Malano, ABD Davidson, B Maheshwari

Conference Proceedings | 2010 | Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Built Environments

Urban Water Supply Strategies for Hyderabad, India - Future Scenarios

Biju A George, Hector M Malano, Ahmad Raza Khan, Anju Gaur, Brian Davidson

Journal article | 2009 | Environmental Modeling & Assessment

Evaporation from water supply reservoirs: An assessment of uncertainty

Lisa D Lowe, J Angus Webb, Rory J Nathan, Teri Etchells, Hector M Malano

Journal article | 2009 | Journal of Hydrology

MANAGING IRRIGATION DEMAND TO IMPROVE SEASONALITY OF RIVER FLOWS

Shahbaz Khan, Aftab Ahmad, Hector M Malano

Journal article | 2009 | Irrigation and Drainage

A Bayesian network approach to knowledge integration and representation of farm irrigation: 3. Spatial application

DE Robertson, QJ Wang, AT McAllister, M Abuzar, HM Malano, T Etchells

Journal article | 2009 | Water Resources Research

A Bayesian network approach to knowledge integration and representation of farm irrigation: 2. Model validation

DE Robertson, QJ Wang, H Malano, T Etchells

Journal article | 2009 | Water Resources Research

A Bayesian network approach to knowledge integration and representation of farm irrigation: 1. Model development

QJ Wang, DE Robertson, CL Haines

Journal article | 2009 | Water Resources Research

A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING THE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL USES OF WATER IN A RIVER BASIN

Hector M Malano, Brian Davidson

Journal article | 2009 | Irrigation and Drainage