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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Clean water is an important
requirement for not only the country’s rapidly expanding
population, but also water is an essential component to expand
the county’s industrial and commercial developments, and
meeting increasing food and accelerating energy requirements.
As India’s water requirements for all purposes are steadily
increasing, the quality of its water bodies has been regularly
decreasing. The social and health costs of using such poor
quality water now runs to billions of rupees per year to the
Indian economy. There is no question that unlike in the past,
water planning and management in the coming years can no
longer improve incrementally if the future needs and
aspirations of the Indian people can be met in a timely and
cost-effective manner. This will be a difficult challenge, but
one that has to be met. The main objectives of the executive
development programme will be how to ensure a quantum leap in
improved water planning and management in India through the
use of new management practices, advanced technological
developments, and innovative ways to solve the old problems
which would result in significantly better solutions that
would be acceptable to the society as a whole.
The programme will be conducted
through an interactive workshop wherein international and
Indian experts will participate as lecturers and moderators.
Equally, the participants will learn from each other as to
what solutions have worked, why and what solutions also have
not worked and also the technological advances in the field of
Water Resources Engineering and Management. The course would
be appropriate for professionals from government water
agencies (central, state or municipal), universities, research
organizations, private sector companies, NGOs and
self-employed water professionals
THEMES
The workshop aims to include the
following broad themes on water resources engineering and
management.
1. Groundwater Resources and Management
2. Water Governance: Reforms in water sector for socio
economic Development
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