(The Gist of PIB) Sustainable Water Management Conference

(The Gist of PIB) Sustainable Water Management Conference
[NOVEMBER-2019]

Union Minister of Jal Shakti would inaugurate Sustainable Water Management Conference on 6th November 2019 at Pune. The Event is likely to be attended by more than 500 International and National delegates.

To achieve sustainable development and management of water resources, Ministry of Jal Shakti (MOJS) is implementing National Hydrology Project (NHP) with active participation of the states.
This Central Sector Scheme is being implemented by the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation with support from World Bank.
The project has a coverage on Pan India basis and intends to set up a system for timely and reliable water resources data acquisition, storage, collation, management and dissemination.
In this regard, a series of annual Conferences with the theme Sustainable Water Management are being organised under NHP. First such conference was hosted in December 2018 by BBMB at Chandigarh.
The second conference is being hosted during November 6-8, 2019 by Water Resources Department, Government of Maharashtra at Pune with the active support from National Project Monitoring Unit, NHP.