National Workshop on Water Conservation and Quality Challenges: Towards Adaptive Strategies
Water quality and conservation are important indicators of the overall growth of a community as it is intrinsically linked to human health, socio-economic growth, major ecosystems, environmental goods and services and sustainable development. With regard to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), water quality would be a major factor in achieving our objectives within the stipulated time period. In addition, climate change poses a great threat to both the quality and quantity of water resources; it is worsening the already existing scarcity and the regional inequality of the resource. As a result, it is a subject of conflict among countries, states and communities as well. Since water is a public good, its protection is a shared responsibility and if protected and managed well, it will be a major common benefit to all communities.
Clean water quality is a basic necessity for a healthy and prosperous world. The causes of water pollution are many, but we have now come to a consensus that the anthropogenic input to the problem is of an unprecedented nature. Whether it be sewage, mining, solid waste or natural disaster related, water quality has been subject to a lot of stress and TERI believes that this issue can be understood and worked upon but through a shared vision and integrated approach. Since its very beginning and as part of its core principles, TERI has been trying to develop cleaner, more sustainable means of development along with finding ways to remediate and improve the ¿polluting¿ ways that have become very prominent and evident.
Clean water quality is a basic necessity for a healthy and prosperous world. The causes of water pollution are many, but we have now come to a consensus that the anthropogenic input to the problem is of an unprecedented nature. Whether it be sewage, mining, solid waste or natural disaster related, water quality has been subject to a lot of stress and TERI believes that this issue can be understood and worked upon but through a shared vision and integrated approach. Since its very beginning and as part of its core principles, TERI has been trying to develop cleaner, more sustainable means of development along with finding ways to remediate and improve the ¿polluting¿ ways that have become very prominent and evident.