India

Course contents

• Challenges to access WASH in India: Areas for intervention
• Innovative approaches for WASH service delivery
• WASH: Indian Perspective & Policy
• CSR Projects & Programs in WASH: Systems for scale
• Collaboration opportunities in WASH

Who should attend?

Since the 1990s, it has often been predicted that all the conflicts over this century will be over water and that they will be fought in the South Asian region, which is undergoing a rapid growth in population coupled with a gradual decrease in water resources.

India has almost 17% of the world's population and 4% of the global water resources – a situation that threatens to push it towards a water crisis in the coming years. To add to this, are other reasons such as:

The Forum has instituted an internship programme for students in its present phase of work. In the past many students – both from India and abroad – had approached the Forum to work as interns on water and more specifically on water conflict issues.

New Water Ministry, Clean Ganga Portal, Ganga Manthan: Goverment makes efforts towards rejuvenating the Ganga

States get a free hand towards the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Tamil Nadu Government fails to implement its long-term rehabililation plans post tsunami 2004

Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies has planned to organize its 7th IDSAsr National seminar on the theme Recycling of Waste Water and Reuse System in the mid of March 2015.  All are invited to contribute their well thought research paper on any of the sub theme within the main theme of the seminar.

Fishermen unhappy with Centre's revised guidelines for deep sea fishing

Location: Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)

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