National Conference on “Sustainable Water Resources Planning, Management and Impact of Climate Change”

Climate change is one of the major challenges to researchers in recent times. The impact of climate change on water resources around the globe has serious implications like, changing water levels and climatic temperatures which in turn affect the economy and future as a whole. In addition, water resources are depleting day by day due to the exponential demand from sectors like irrigation, domestic consumption and industry. Along with quantity, quality is also deteriorating mainly due to the indiscriminate use of ground water to hazardous levels, pollution of rivers and improper management of wastewater. This necessitates water conservation strategies to be adopted at the national, state and local levels. On the one hand, numbers of advanced techniques have been developed by researchers and on the other hand government and non-governmental organizations are engaged in the implementation of low cost and traditional methods of water conservation. Thus, there is a need to understand and integrate these aspects. To achieve this objective, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad campus is organizing a National Conference on “Sustainable Water Resources Planning, Management and Impact of Climate Change”on April 5 & 6, 2013. The objective of the conference is to identify ways to reduce the gap between research and action and bring relevant stakeholders together, to share their experience and expertise.

Besides other technical sessions, a special session has also been planned to discuss the specific problems on impact of climate change in India. In addition, a brain storming session will be organized for the benefit of researchers. The significant deliberations of the conference will help in framing suitable policy measures which can be implemented by the organizations concerned.