Saturday, 12 February 2022 | PNS | Roorkee
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) Roorkee are jointly organising the second edition of the Roorkee Water Conclave (RWC) during March 2 -4. The water conclave is being organised broadly focusing on water security for sustainable development. The conclave would broadly focus on understanding water security and its multiple facets underpin sustainable water resource management and a key component of social development. IIT-R and NIH plan to use this opportunity to network with groups in India and abroad and work with the central and state governments to help find sustainable solutions to the challenges facing the water and allied sectors.
NIH Roorkee director Jaivir Tyagi said that water security has emerged as a major theoretical framework in environmental governance and resource management. An insecure supply of clean water and safe access to fresh water and sanitation raises the dangers of economic disruption, social tension, and even conflict over water resources at both the domestic and international levels. It is imperative to outline that these dangers are greatest where water is scarce and governance is poor. This conclave will serve as a platform for such frameworks, developed by communities, should form the basis for a national water policy based on sustainability.”
IIT Roorkee director Ajit K Chaturvedi said that to sustain water resources management and enhance social development, it is crucial to understand water security and its many facets. He further said that the three -day event would focus on water scarcity, aging or inadequate infrastructure, population growth, pollution, more intense and more frequent storms, droughts, and floods—all these pressures are converging to lend urgency to the need to increase global investment in water infrastructures and to develop smart water conservation and management solutions. About 33 international experts from the USA, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, UK, Australia, Austria, Japan, Italy, and from IITs and user ministries have been invited for making the presentation of their key papers on various conclave themes.
