Overview
Theme: Digitalization of the Water Industry – boosting efficiencies
Water is the most critical resource and India is facing one of its major and most serious water crisis. India is the second most populous country in the world, with more than 1 billion citizens, millions are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic with the added challenge of living without access to safe water. The scale of need in India is immense, making India the concentrated centre of the global water and sanitation crisis. These factors, combined with the current political push to end this crisis, and has created unprecedented urgency to implement effective solutions to increase access to safe water and sanitation.
Looking at the current situation, there is a need for a paradigm shift. We urgently require a transition from this 'supply-and-supply-more water' provision to measures which lead towards improving water use efficiency, reducing leakages, recharging/restoring local waterbodies as well as applying for higher tariffs and ownership by various stakeholders. A recovery-based closed loop system is the need of the hour.
The virtual summit will focus on India’s mission to lead the change in building a smart and resilient water ecosystem essentially needs understanding and discussion around the critical challenges and how digitalisation of water can lead the way, more so given the implications of the pandemic.
Who should attend?
- Ministries of Urban and Rural Development
- Ministry of Water Resources
- Ministry of Agriculture
- National Agricultural Agencies
- Regional Water Resources Organizations
- Research Organizations and Academia
- Industrial Players
- Scientists
- Policy Makers
- Data Providers
- Consultants
- Construction agencies
- National Water Agencies
- Municipalities
- Utility Management Agencies
Agenda
Time | Session |
1400 – 1405 hrs |
Opening by Geospatial World |
1405 – 1420 hrs |
Step towards Water Conservation Policy Guest AddressG. Asok KumarMission Director, National Water Mission |
1420 – 1510 hrs |
Session: Waste Water Management and Sanitation Intelligence
Keynote and ChairD.P MathuriaExecutive Director (Technical), National Mission for Clean Ganga SpeakersDr. V.K ChaurasiaJoint Advisor, Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organization Rahul PriyadarshiExecutive Engineer, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board |
1510 – 1515 hrs |
Break |
1515 – 1615 hrs |
Session: Digitalization of Water Infrastructure
ModeratorR.K JainChief Engineer, National Water Development Authority Industry KeynoteChandra Mohan Singh AdhikariSenior Manager, ESRI SpeakersMS RathoreJoint Director, National Water Informatics Centre Dr. Abdul Hakeem KEngineer 'G' & Head, Water Resources Informatics Division, National Remote Sensing Centre Jyoti GadeDeputy Executive Engineer, Mission Bhagiratha, Govt. of Telangana |
1615 – 1655 hrs |
Panel: India Water Scarcity: Challenges & Solutions
MODERATORSudhakar ReddySenior Assistant Editor, Times of India PANELISTSDr. K.J RameshFormer Director General, India Meteorological Department Peeyush GuptaReal-time Specialist, National Mission for Clean Ganga G Prasad RaoScientist – SF, Andhra Pradesh Space Application Centre S.K JainScientist G, National Institute of Hydrology Prof. Vimal MishraAssociate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar |
1655 – 1700 hrs |
Closing |
Contact
Anshita Rawat
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anshita@geospatialworld.net