Water management

This is the time of globalization of knowledge. But the bad example of this is that many of developed countries and international institutions are pushing on paradigms which are toAccording to Charles Darwin, “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” and we being the scientists and engineers can bring about this change. Lots of research is going on in our universities and research centers, but we are not being truely benefited from these researches as the results are not reaching to the field. The need of the hour is to use those researches for the benefit of the society. We should be able to use those results practically for the benefit of mankind. Here I would like to quote an example of Anil Gupta, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, who has been described as ‘a global guru of grass-root invention’ by a MIT scientist. His mission of life is to find, celebrate and promote creativity of rural & small-town in India and discovering the grass-root innovators and helping them developing the ideas commercially.


Today we hear a lot that there is a water crisis. But if we look at it carefully, the world is not facing water crisis, what it is facing is a crisis in managing its water. Water is continually managed inefficiently. Next twenty years we are going to see profound changes, all of which will have implications for water. The world of water management will change because of water business. There are bound to be radical changes in economic performance of the countries and this will affect water in various ways.

Urbanization and growth of mega cities (population 10 million plus) has serious implication on water sector and water demand. Water can improve quality of life of people.

When we want to teach people water conservation, it is not easy. When people pay very less for water, there is no way water is going to be conserved.
----Er. Neelima Garg--Water Conservationist