CAPACITY BUILDING AT ALL LEVELS FOR EFFICIENT WATER MANAGEMENT

PANEL DISCUSSION ON “CAPACITY BUILDING AT ALL

LEVELS FOR EFFICIENT WATER MANAGEMENT”

A. K. Gosain, Professor Civil Engineering Department

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi [email protected]

Monday, April 24, 2023

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Water resource development Shall always remain one of the

preferred options to cater to Inherent Spatial variability and Temporal variability of this resource Climate change impacts


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Implications of Development

-(or Interventions) Water resource is finite (within natural

variability) Any development big or small involves in

moving the water around (more often upstream)

Thus every intervention has an associated impact


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What are the issues & concerns? No mechanism in place to arrive at

tradeoffs between the competing demands No mechanism to decide the extent of

watershed management Promoting rainwater harvesting without setting

the limits Ignoring the environmental demand Ignoring the hydrological health (interaction

between surface and ground water) Ignoring the water quality issues

Sustainability This brings us to the question of

sustainability Which is about maintaining the hydrological

and environmental health of the drainage system

IWRM philosophy has been the scientific option available but seldom used Watershed being the natural system where

water balance can be resolved and thereby impacts of the manmade interferences quantified

Way forward

Strengthen the scientific basis of decision making Use the basin approach for development Implement IWRM principles Bring in the environmental sustainability Be conscious of water quality issues

Involve the society in the decision making process on Water Resources development Generate scenarios to present various options Translate information that is integrated and

understandable – e.g., indices

Capacity building of various kind is required Strengthen the existing programmes Develop inter-disciplinary programmes Improve the in-service training

Introduce some portion of permanent faculty (open)

Have regular training of trainers Add experts on missing disciplines

Create comprehensive databases (initiative of NWM) and put them in public domain

Enhance interaction between water managers and academia

Some of the Good initiatives

Data of IMD in public domain An extensive contribution being made

by NRSC WRIS put up by MoWR & NRSC A framework for an integrated water

resources information base for climate change scenarios http://gisserver.civil.iitd.ac.in/natcom


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http://gisserver.civil.iitd.ac.in/natcom

http://gisserver.civil.iitd.ac.in/natcom/



Focus of discussion Critical analysis w.r.t. capacity building

Requirements of the water sector Existing capacity building facilities &

shortcomings Actions required to be taken


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Thank You

CAPACITY BUILDING AT ALL LEVELS FOR EFFICIENT WATER MANAGEMENT

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