Regional Capacity Building and Knowledge Dissemination Workshop Service Delivery of Water and Sanitation: Challenges Faced by Metropolitan Cities
February 06, 2013 New Delhi
The third regional Capacity Building and Knowledge Dissemination workshop was organised in New Delhi on February 6, 2013. The workshop focused on challenges faced by metropolitan cities in delivering water and sanitation. The participating cities included Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Surat, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur.
L to R: Ms. Debashree Mukherjee, Dr. Smita Misra, Dr. Isher Judge Ahluwalia and Mr. Satish Jain
The opening remarks by Dr. Isher Judge Ahluwalia, were followed by a presentation by Ms. Debashree Mukherjee, CEO, Delhi Jal Board. Ms Malini Shankar, former Principal Secretary, Water and Sanitation, Maharashtra, shared the experience of the Maharashtra Sujal Nirmal Abhiyan, a state wide campaign for improving water and sanitation services. Engineers from a number of urban local bodies and from several water and sanitation boards presented their successful initiatives and discussed the challenges that their respective cities face in this sector.
The discussions at the workshop focussed on the water and sanitation scenario in different states in general and the strategies to manage the rapidly increasing demand for water given the limited supply of water, in particular. The participants also discussed the ongoing programs to achieve 24x7 supply of water. The importance of water conservation and reduction of water losses emerged as the major challenges facing Urban Local Bodies.
Programme
Registration
Inaugural Session: Setting Out the Challenge
Welcome and Introduction to the Programme: Dr. Isher Judge Ahluwalia Chairperson, ICRIER
