Science Roundtable: Climate and Water Resources Modeling in India
Summary
The Government of India has invested almost $250 billion in the country's water sector during the last decade. These efforts have focused primarily on improving drinking water supply and sanitation. However, the source sustainability of these water supply systems depends on the overall sustainable management of water resources.
To identify and support effective water resource management approaches, USAID/REAL-Water held the State of the Science Roundtable: Climate and Water Resources Modeling in India in New Delhi on 19 July 2024. Experts from government agencies, research institutions, and nonprofits across India participated in the event and discussed the following questions:
- How to link climate and water resources threats in India to drinking water security;
- How to position research for uptake by decision-makers in the Indian context; and
- How to improve collaboration between researchers and the government on data, methodologies, and applications?
These video recordings provide insights from six of the workshop participants:
- Dr. Nitin Bassi, Senior Program Lead, Sustainable Water, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
- Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Dean, School of Environment and Sustainability, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
- Dr. Vimal Mishra, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
- Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Dr. PS Rao, Director (Technical), Advanced Centre for Integrated Water Resources Management (ACIWRM)
- Mr. Anuj Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Arghyam