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India Water Week

3rd November, 2022

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Context

  • The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Government of India is organizing the 7th edition of India Water Week (IWW) from 1st to 5th November.

 

About India Water Week

  • Every year India Water Week is organized in an effort to raise awareness and conserve and use water resources in an integrated manner. Indian Water Week platform is used to elicit ideas and opinions from global-level decisions makers, politicians, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

2022 Theme

  • The theme of the 7th India Water Week is “Water Security for Sustainable Development and Equity”.

 

Partner Countries

  • Denmark, Singapore and Finland are the partner countries for India Water Week 2022.

 

Sustainable & Equitable Management of Water

  • The five-day long program is set to bring together experts, planners, and stakeholders from across the globe. The focus is to build dialogue, action plans, and address issues of the sustainability of water resources development as well. In addition, it also aims for a management system in accordance with sustainable development goals.
  • Regulating over-extraction of groundwater, tracking water resources in rural-urban areas, access to installing wells, pumps etc for irrigation, protection of aquifers, rainwater harvesting structures like check dams and field bunds, not polluting water resources are some of the ways by which water management and its sustainability can be achieved.
  • Moreover, the use of new technologies, sensors and satellite imagery are enabling us to improve ‘water accounting’ and equitability in water management.

 

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