The speaker line up for the opening day of the conference has some of the most respected names in the water sector, in India. I have put together resource pages for each of the speaker's profiles and the subject of their talk.
Ramaswamy Iyer
Honorary Professor and Former Secretary,
Ministry of Water Resources
Government of India
Keynote Address
His book Water: perspectives, issues, concerns be read on google books here
M Gopalakrishnan
Secretary General
International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage
Country policy support in basin planning - Some case studies in India undertaken by ICID; Presentation download (pdf, 1.6 mb)
Bharat R Sharma
Senior Agri-Water Management Specialist & Head
International Water Management Institute
Managing risk and low productivity of rain fed agriculture through nationwide water harvesting initiative in India; Presentation download (pdf,1 mb)
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Saumitra Mukherjee
Professor
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
Geological information system in rainwater harvesting.
Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande
Director IITK
Prof. of Mechanical Engineering and
Computer Science & Engineering
Welcome Address
Professor, IITK
Conference Chairman
Isha Prasad Bhagwat
Country Head
WaterAid-India
On Policy
S K Jain
Central Ground Water Board
Storm water management, artificial recharge and improvement in ground water regime; Presentation download (pdf,6.7mb)
Paritosh Tyagi
Former Chairman
Central Pollution Control Board
Rain water harvesting: Methodologies and risks; Presenatation download (pdf,24 kb)
S K Sharma
Ground Water Expert
Presentation download (pdf, 1.3 mb)