IIT Roorkee receives grant for water design

IIT Roorkee has been awarded the Indo-netherland project on Water4change – Integrative and Fit-for-purpose Water Sensitive Design Framework for the fast Growing Liveable Cities of India. This award was given by the minister of Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan in presence of King and Queen of Netherlands during the DST-CII India-netherland Technology Summit in New Delhi.

A consortium of IIT Gandhinagar (IITG) – Gujarat, CEPT University - Gujarat, Center for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) – Calicut, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) – Bhopal, Delft University of Technology – Delft, University of Twente – Enschede, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions

– Rotterdam, Stichting Deltares – Delft, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education – Delft, IRC Wash – The Hague with a lead from IIT Roorkee under the supervision of Prof. ML Kansal as Principal Investigator has been formed for the 5 years project. This project will focus on urban water systems for the secondary cities mainly the Bhuj, Bhopal, and Kozhikode (Calicut).

DST- CII tech summit mulls on new areas of knowledge co-operation. This summit focuses on food security through better technology for agriculture, water and wastewater management, and technology for improving health. The Kingdom of Netherlands was the partner country. More than 200 companies from the Netherlands and about 250 from India participated in this summit.