Workshop Overview
An Indo-Australian workshop on Integrated Urban Water Management Systems was
held in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India) on Nov 4-6, 2019. The
workshop was jointly organized by IIT Kharagpur and The University of Melbourne
under the aegis of SPARC program. The objective of the workshop was to find
actionable ways to improve the urban water service delivery in India through
discussions that represented variety of stakeholders. The workshop was attended by
delegates comprising academicians, practitioners, impact organization, charitable
trusts, NGOs as well as faculty and student community of IIT Kharagpur.
The core findings of the workshops were that there is a need for a common platform
in India, where diverse stakeholders in urban water sector can collaborate to better
understand the problems and find solutions to the underlying problems related with
urban water system delivery.
Participants
Manoj Kumar Tiwari, IIT Kharagpur; Meenakshi Arora, University of Melbourne; Wenyan Wu, University of Melbourne; Peter Scales, University of Melbourne; Pawan Sachdeva, WMIPL Singapore; Saumyen Guha, IIT Kanpur; Alok Sinha, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad; Swatantra Pratap Singh, IIT Bombay; Bhabagrahi Sahoo, IIT Kharagpur; Abhijit Mukharjee, IIT Kharagpur; Sudip Misra, IIT Kharagpur; Sujata Ray, IISER Kolkata; Sourav Daspatnaik, Swach Environment Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata; Conrad E. Frenandez, SUEZ India Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata; Sanjoy Roy, Orange City Water (OCW) Nagpur; Vijay Mandlik, Orange City Water (OCW) Nagpur; Ruchi Agrawal, Piramal Sarvajal; Rajat Pati, TATA Trusts Water Mission Asaam; Krishnakumar Thiagarajan, eGovernment Foundation Bengaluru; Sobia , Sensing Local Bengaluru; Ankit Bhargava, Sensing Local Bengaluru; Chandan Dey, Rashmi Metaliks Ltd. Kharagpur; S K Singh, PETCI Dhanbad; Nisha Khanam, BSAU Crescent Chennai; Sanskriti Mujumdar, MSU Baroda; Ganesh Gupta, MSU Baroda; K. Ravi Chandra Reddy, CVR College of Engineering Telangana; Shyam Sundar, EGSPEC Nagapattinam; Indrani Ghosh, Adamas University Kolkata; Renji Remesan, IIT Kharagpur; Bhaskar Bhaduri, IIT Kharagpur; Karabi Biswas, IIT Kharagpur; B B Rai, IIT Kharagpur; Students from IIT Kharagpur
