INDIAN NOMINATION AND CORRESPONDENCE About DEPT. OF WATER RESOURCES CBIP - 2018 Awardee “Best R&D Institute in Water Resources Sector” Interested International Water Professionals DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT should send their nominations in the enclosed Performa duly sponsored by the appropriate Established in 1955, the authority/self-sponsored along with the details of Department offers M.Tech. course fee payment to Course Coordinator. Visa and Post Graduate Diploma/ information is available at www.iitr.ac.in/ icws. training programmes for International Short-Term Course specialization in the fields of No. of Seats & Course FEE Wa t e r R e s o u r c e s on The number of seats is limited to 30 only and Development (for civil, these shall be filled purely on first come first serve electrical and mechanical engineers) and Water and Society basis. The course fee is US$ 5200/- (US$ Five Irrigation Water Management (for civil engineers, (January 3 - 24, 2019) thousand two hundred only) for each participant, agricultural engineers and agricultural scientists) which includes Institutional Overhead Charges, separately and organizes short duration courses study kit, boarding and lodging at IIT Guest on various topics in the water sector. House for 23 days, domestic travel from delhi About CONTINUING EDUCATION airport to Roorkee and back, tours and all other taxes as applicable. The last date of CENTRE (CEC) registration is December 20, 2018. Participants CEC offers a platform for the professionals and shall be awarded Certificates for their officials to relearn the fundamentals and the Participation. advances made in the cutting edge science and technologies. It helps the professionals to unlearn PAYMENT of course fee the obsolete and to acquire the advanced The payment shall be made to Professor & Head, knowledge from the experts and peers in different CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTRE, INDIAN areas. The courses are offered in varied and INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE, flexible formats and are led by faculty of this ROORKEE. The course fee should be paid Institute. online in advance, for which the bank details are available at www.iitr.ac.in/icws. Experts from industries and R & D organizations are also invited to interact with participants. The About IIT ROORKEE Course participants are lodged in the Guest Indian Institute of Technology House of the Continuing Education Center and Roorkee (, ) other Guest Houses of the Institute. has an illustrious history and a glorious past. It has its roots in COURSE COORDINATOR Organized by Thomson College which was founded in 1847 to train Dr. S K Mishra, Professor & Head technical manpower for Department of Water Resources construction of Upper Ganga canal. It was the Development & Management first College in the then British Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Empire. In 1949, this great institution was Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, INDIA accorded the status of the first technological Department of of university of independent India and was Phone : 01332 - 285457 renamed as University of Roorkee. On Mob : +91 9411100753 WaterWater Resources Resources Development and and Management Management Email: [email protected]; September 21, 2001, the INDIAN INSTITUTE INSTITUTE OF OFTECHNOLO TECHNOLOGY ROORKEEGY ROORKEE declared it as the Nation's seventh Indian [email protected] Institute of Technology. Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, Uttarakhand, India India www.iitr.ac.in/icws CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTRE BAKGROUND Water for Health Due to rapid increase in population, the demand Importance of water for human health; Basics of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE for water continues to increase globally in almost water chemistry - water as universal solvent, ROORKEE-247667 (INDIA) all sectors. However, the temporal and spatial water quality parameters, introduction to point variability of the available water resources can no and non-point sources of surface and ground Nomination Proforma longer be taken for granted particularly under water pollution, physical and chemical treatment processes, disinfection and appropriate International Short-Term Course changing climate. Heavy water consumers such on as agriculture and industry often contribute to its technologies for water treatment. contamination. In urban areas, huge quantities of Water for Food Water and Society sewage wastes are generated every day and Issues in sustainable agriculture, Need for (January 3 – 24, 2019) discharged directly to rivers contaminating their irrigation, Techno-economic, social and water and its consumption badly affects the environmental issues in irrigation water health of human beings thriving on it. Water management, Importance of 'more crop per distribution networks and soiled water collection drop', Precise irrigation techniques – Sprinkler Name & Address of the Candidate(s) systems pose serious problems and there is a and Drip irrigation for sustainable agriculture. …………...... ……...... need to maintain ageing infrastructures mostly in ...... …………………………………………………………...... Urbanization and its Impact on Water urban areas. Resources Tel. (with ISD code) Shortage of water further has social, economic, Urban water demand assessment, urban water (Off.)………………….....……(Res.)…………....……...... ……… and political implications. In many regions of the resources assessment, source protection zone, world, people are relying heavily on energy water conservation in urban areas, importance of FAX : ………………….....……(Mobile)….….…….…...... ……… demanding pumping systems for the supply of reuse and recycle in water conservation. E-mail……………………………………………………...... … water. It has led to depletion of ground water and Problem of urban flooding, structural and non- caused salt water intrusion, particularly in coastal structural measures for management of urban Address of Sponsoring Authority / Self-sponsored: areas. Expensive desalination systems are flooding. Monitoring of quantity and quality of …………………………………………………………………….………… wastewater, appropriate technologies for being used to meet the needs of coastal ………………………………………………...... … population. wastewater treatment, wastewater disposal. Tel. (with ISD code) (Off.)……………...... …………… Various technological solutions have been Hydro-informatics proposed to optimize the use of water, Importance of Hydrological Information System FAX …….. …………...... ….. particularly by recycling waste water for (HIS), spatial data series for a river basin, E-mail…………………………………………………...... agricultural and secondary uses. Over and hydrological time-series, data storage and time- above, the climate change has significantly series analysis. Payment Details (online transfer): affected the hydrological extremes causing Importance of Hydrological Information System Account No.…………...... ….. economic losses to the society. (HIS), spatial data series for a river basin, date of transfer …...... …...... … COURSE Coverage hydrological time-series, data storage and time- series analysis. Transaction Number…………...... ….. Introduction Other uses/aspects Historical importance of water in the Water as renewable source of energy, water for development of civilizations; Nature, water and transportation, and water for recreation; wetland society; Water Cycle; Water conservation – development, climate change and its impact on Traditional methods, storage structures, roof-top Signature of Candidate Signature of Sponsor water and society, innovations in water With Seal rainwater harvesting, artificial recharge to engineering, water audit. ground water.