Nexus Conference India // "Sustainable and Integrated Water Resource Management Systems"

Water is life and it nourishes the economic, social, environmental and cultural strata of the society. Ensuring the sustainability of our water resources is cardinal to the sustenance of life on earth. Predictions are that the next world war will not be for oil, but for water. According to the recent United Nations World Water Development Report, if our current pattern of water consumption continues then by the year 2030 the world will have only 60% of the water it needs. With rapidly depleting groundwater reserves, rampant and unsustainable infrastructure development activities, deforestation, pollution, destruction of traditional sustainable methods of water conservation and irregularity in rainfall patterns due to climate change, countries like India are adversely affected. According to this report, unsustainable development and ineffective water resources management have significantly impacted the quality and availability of water resources, compromising their capacity to generate social and economic benefits. Unless the balance between demand and finite supplies is restored, we will face an increasingly severe global water deficit.

Where and when

Stock Exchange
Mumbai
India 7 Jan 17
9:30am - 5:30pm

Organised by

• Govardhan Ecovillage
• National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur
• Shree Halari Visa Oswal Vidyalaya & Commerce College
  (affiliated to the University of Mumbai)
  

Agenda

09:30
Tea and Registration 10:15 – 12:00
Inauguration & Keynote Talks

Welcome by Guest of Honor

• Mr. K Kumar
  MD & CEO, ICCL
• Sushri Uma Bharti
  Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
• Babanrao Lonikar Ji
  Minister of Water supply and Sanitation, Government of Maharashtra
• H. H. Radhanath Swami
  Founder, Govardhan Ecovillage
• Mr. Madhur Bajaj
  Vice Chairman & Whole-Time Director of Bajaj Auto Limited.

12:00 – 12:10
Break 12:10 – 12:40

• Dr. Rakesh Kumar
  Director, CSIR-NEERI
• Dr. Riess Potterveld
  President, Graduate Theological Union

12:40 – 12:45
Award Ceremony
Nexus Eco-Stewardship Award 2017
Award of Excellence to Rajendra Singh Ji 12:45 – 13:30
The Story of The Waterman of India
Interview of Rajendra Singh Ji by Dr. A D Sawant
Water Conversationalist 13:30 – 14:30
Lunch and Networking 14:30 – 15:45
Panel Discussion on Integrated Water Resource Management and Sustainable Development

• Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni
  Founder Trustee and Executive Director, ACWADAM
• Dr. Pawan Labhasetwar
  Scientist and Head,, NEERI, Nagpur
• Dr. Rita Sherma
  Director, Center for Dharma Studies
• Mr. Arun Lakhani
  National Body of Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation
• Mr. Sudarshan Suchi
  Head, Rural Transformation Initiative of Reliance Foundation
• Mr. Ramani Iyer
  Founder, Every Drop Counts Foundation

15:45 – 16:00
Break 16:00 – 17:00
Panel Discussion on Protecting our Water Future

• Mr. Vishwanath S
  Founder, Rainwater Club
• Mr. Aviram Rozin
  Founder and International Director, Sadhana Forest
• Mr. Piyush Manush
  Founder, Salem Citizens' Forum and COOP Forest
• Mr. Arun Krishnamurthy
  Founder, Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI)
• Mr. Nimai Lila Das
  Cief Sustainability Officer, Govardhan Ecovillgage

17:00 – 17:30
Valedictory Success Stories
Case Study Presentations

More information

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