Field (in Villages & Towns) Implementation of Technologies and Management Practices
Implementation of Technologies & Management Practices in the field
- Identify the immediate concerns related with water faced by various parts of the country.
- Implement astute management practices and solutions by leveraging existing / new technologies, for water conservation and water rejuvenation in villages and towns.
- Monitor the performance over a period of time under different stress conditions for creating sustainable initiatives under the existing policy framework.
- Extract knowledge from existing research on the technology-society-governance nexus and suggest required changes in the policy framework.
Grand Challenges
Grand Challenges
- Identify grand challenges in water and wastewater management to streamline our focus.
- Invite innovative solutions for these challenges from faculty and students of IITM, and scholars from India and around the globe.
- Facilitate the required funding and support for them to start working on these solutions.
Setting up of a state-of-the-art Hydro-Informatics Laboratory
Hydro-Informatics Laboratory
- Setting up the state-of-the-art Hydro-Informatics Laboratory
- This proposed laboratory will foster the research potential of current scholars and encourage future scholars.
- An incubator of interdisciplinary research and innovative technologies.
Implementation - in Villages & Towns
Pioneering Progress in Village
Two Villages near Coimbatore
- Prof. Pradeep has already initiated work in this locality.
- Prof. Pradeep will be the Principal Investigator (PI) for this project.
- Aqua MAP’s first year seed grant will provide the seed fund for this project.
- Details of the proposed course of action and the timeline of activity will be updated soon.
Villupuram Village near Chengalpattu
- Prof. Kalyanaraman (Rtd. Professor and IITM Alumni) has been working in this village for many years
- This locality has some pressing water issues which require immediate intervention..
- Prof. Ligy and Prof. B.S Murty will be visiting the village soon to conduct a reconnaissance survey
Two Villages near Tiruvallur district
- Padur and Paandeswaram in Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu.
- Automatic control of rural water supply schemes.
- Prof Sridharakumar Narasimhan, & Prof Shankar Narasimhan from Dept. Of Chemical Engineering.
- Details of the proposed course of action and the timeline of activity will be updated soon.
Thuthipet Village near Vellore
- This locality has some pressing water issues which require immediate intervention..
- Prof. Ligy and Prof. B.S Murty will be visiting the village soon to conduct a reconnaissance survey
Identifying the Innovation Villages
Aqua MAP leadership will streamline this process of identifying the potential sites (Innovation Village) through a well-defined process and criteria that includes discussions with State Governments, CSR departments in private companies.