Events
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27-28 Feb 2021 – online on virtual platform
Resilience of Groundwater Resources for accommodating Changing Climate Scenarios
Seminar Themes T1: Emerging Techniques of Groundwater Exploration and Management T2: Managed Aquifer Recharge, Groundwater Contamination and Treatment Techniques T3: Groundwater Resources vulnerability, resilience and sustainable management. T4: Community Participation, Governance and Regulation for feasible mitigation. Current water management practices may not be robust enough to cope with the future impacts of climate change on water resources, flood risk, agriculture and groundwater ecosystems. In addition, natural changes can be exacerbated by illegal actions such as indiscriminate drilling activities leading to groundwater overexploitation which underlines the need for strong legislation and its compliance.
India is among the countries most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, and widespread poverty limits its ability to adapt due to its burgeoning population. Adaptation to climate change is consequently indispensable and urgent since the climate is already changing in many respects, and mitigation will take too long to show effects. Further, climate change throughout this century and beyond is almost certain even if global mitigation efforts prove successful. Adaptation represents an important challenge for all countries, especially for those with economies in transition. Assessing the impacts of climate change on groundwater resources represents one of the most difficult challenges faced by water resources specialists.
Migration from rural to urban areas have increased asymptotically in India due to socio-economic factors and has resulted in creation of huge peri-urban areas in almost all cities of India. This has been so unorganized and massive in magnitude that we faced tremendous issues in implementing the lockdown in the country recently, following the COVID19 crisis. Such a situation of having larger peri-urban than the urban areas puts heavy pressure on the natural resources including water resources. The situation becomes much severe with the impact of climate change that often brings floods to the cities only.
Accordingly, it is imperative to discuss these issues at a common platform, along with success stories to arrive at the best practices to create resilience and to cope up with the situation, we propose to confine to the following topics in a one-day seminar and invite research contributions from interested participants. It is now proposed to invite abstracts for presentation and the selected ones based on the recommendation of the session chair will be published as full papers in the e-journal of INC-IAH.Price: Registration is free
Organised by Indian National Chapter of IAH.