NWM Water Talk Book 2019 - 2020
The ‘Water Talk‘ Series
| S. No. | Series | Speaker | Topic | Date | Attachment File |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 57th Water Talk | G. Asok Kumar IAS, Former Special Secretary and Ex Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga, DoWR, RD & GR, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India | "Water Governance: Multi- stakeholder approach towards water security" | 10th December-2024 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 56 | 56th Water Talk | Uma Aslekar,Executive Director ACWADAM & Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni,Secretary & Scientist Emeritus ACWADAM | "Participatory Groundwater Management in Maharashtra" | 18th Nov. 2024 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 55 | 55th Water Talk | Eklavya Prasad, Managing Trustee,Megh Pyne Abhiyan | "Maneuvering the Waterscape of Bihar and Jharkhand: Understanding Sanitation, Drinking Water Facility and Shallow Aquifers in the area " | 27th September 2024 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 54 | 54th Water Talk | Dr.Sazina Bhimani, Founder Director Geo Science Services | "Involving Communities and Ensuring Women's Participation for Aquifer Management" | 12th August.2024 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 53 | 53rd Water Talk | Dr.Marcella D'Souza,Director WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies (W-CReS) and Dr. Eshwer Kale Thematic Lead WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies (W-CReS) | "Communities- Based Water Resources Management" | 25th July.2024 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 52 | 52nd Water Talk | Dr. Veena Srinivasan, Executive Director WELL Labs | "Empowering Women and Communities through Inclusive Water Security Indicators" | 31st May.2024 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 51 | 51th Water Talk | Shri. Arun Bhakta Srestha, Strategic Group Lead, ICIMOD | "Changing Climate and Risk Scenarios in the Himalayas" | 22nd March.2024 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 50 | 50th Water Talk | Smt.Usha Rajagopalan Writer,Translator and Lake Conservationist | "Collective Responsibility: The Puttenahalli Puttakere Story" | 22nd Sept.2023 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 49 | 49th Water Talk | Shri. Umashankar Pandey Water Conservationist & Padma Shri Awardee | "Traditional Methods of Water Conservation" | 21st July.2023 | | Recording |
| 48 | 48th Water Talk | Dr. Chandra Bhushan Kumar IAS, Principal Secretary to Lt. Governor, Delhi | "Indigenous Knowledge and Water in Urban Context" | 23rd June.2023 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 47 | 47th Water Talk | Smt. Akli Tudu, Water Warrior, Jharkhand & Smt. Hiraben, Water Warrior, Bhuj, Gujarat | "Nari Shakti Se Jal Shakti" | 19 May.2023 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 46 | 46th Water Talk | Prof.(Dr.) Maheshwar Singh, Professor of Political Science, National Law University Delhi. | "Right to Water and Sanitation for Urban Poor in Delhi" | 21st Apr. 2023 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 45 | 45th Water Talk | Ms. Amla Ashok Ruia , Chairperson – Aakar Charitable Trust (ACT) | "The Bounteous Check Dams" | 24th Mar. 2023 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 44 | 44th Water Talk | Mr. Ayyappa Masaqi Founder & Director, Water Literacy Foundation | "Water Literacy" | 24th Feb. 2023 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 43 | 43rd Water Talk | Dr. Sonali Shinde ,Managing Trustee, Gram Gaurav Pratishthan, New Delhi | "Watershed Management Through Pani Panchayat Model" | 20th Jan. 2023 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 42 | 42nd Water Talk | Mr. M.S. Siddiqui ,Advocate & Founding Partner, Indian Environment Law Organization (IELO), New Delhi, | Mainstreaming Water Use Efficiency in India: Need for Pluralism in Water Governance | 25th Nov. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 41 | 41st Water Talk | Dr. Lior Asaf Water Attache - Embassy of Israel, New Delhi | Opportunities and Challenges of Indian Water System – An Israeli Perspective | 21st Oct. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 40 | 40th Water Talk | Mr. A.Mridul,Architect | Contemporizing Traditional Water Architecture Restoration | Iteration | Mainstreaming | 26th August. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 39 | 39th Water Talk | Mr. Anand Malligavad ,Lake Man of India | Importance and Rejuvenation of Water Bodies Naturally | 15th July. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 38 | 38th Water Talk | Ms. Sushmita Singha Trustee Member of Online Giving Foundation India, An Independent Director at Kajaria Ceramics Ltd and Chairman of the CSR Committee, Stakeholders & Relationship Committee & Member of NRC | Significance of water Museum | 17th June. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 37 | 37th Water Talk | Ms. Kanupriya Harish, Executive Director,Jal Bhagirathi Foundation | Community Participation in Water Management | 27th May. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 36 | 36th Water Talk | Mr. R S Krishnaswamy Member, Apex Committee, Siruthuli | Water Watch at Siruthuli | 22th Apr. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 35 | 35th Water Talk | Padma Shri Bharat Bhushan Tyagi Indian Farmer, Educator and Trainer | Natural Farming & Water Conservation | 18th Feb. 2022 | PPTs | | Recording |
| 34 | 34th Water Talk | Mr. Shantilal Muttha, Founder, Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana | New vision for a community-led, demand-driven, scalable water conservation program | 21st Jan. 2022 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 33 | 33rd Water Talk | Ms. Jayamala Subramaniam, CEO, Arghyam | Digitally enabled strategy to enhance community resilience toward water security | 17th December 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 32 | 32nd Water Talk | Ms. Nidhi Pundhir, Director, HCL Founation | Conserving the Critical Common - Water | 19th November 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 31 | 31st Water Talk | Mr. Satyajit Bhatkal, CEO, Paani Foundation | Creating a People's Movement for Water Conservation | 15th October 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 30 | 30th Water Talk | Dr. M Ramachandran, IAS(Retd) | Urban Water Management in India - Issues & the Way forward | 17th September 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 29 | 29th Water Talk | Ms. Kalpana Ramesh | The Last Mile for Water | 20th August 2021 | PPTs | Recording |
| 28 | 28th Water Talk | Dr. Bibek Debroy | Solving India's Water Problems | 16th July 2021 | PPTs | Recording |
| 27 | 27th Water Talk | 1. Ms. Renuka Kotabhkar, 2.Ms. Neetaben Patel, 3. Ms.Vasantha, 4.Ms. Babita Lilroliya, 5.Ms.Bhurki Bai, 6.Ms.Ramandeep kaur | Presentation by Women Water Warriors (organized jointly by NWM & UNDP with SIWI waters) | 18th June 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 26 | 26th Water Talk | Shri Mahendra Modi (IPS(Retd.), Ex- D.G.P. U.P) | Raising Water Table: Pre-requisite to Jal Jeevan Mission | 21st May 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 25 | 25th Water Talk | Shri Rajendra Singh (Stockholm Water Prize Winner and worldrenowned water warrior) | Catch the Rain: Importance of Water Literacy | 15th April 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 24 | 24th Water Talk | Shri Ravindra Desai (Director(Operations), Govt & Corporate Relationships, Art of Living’s River Rejuvenation Projects) | River Rejuvenation at Art of Living | 19th March 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 23 | 23rd Water Talk | Shri Divyang Waghela, Head- Tata Water Mission | Water Security through Sprimgshed Management in Indian Himalayan Region | 05th March 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 22 | 22nd Water Talk | Shri Shirish Apte (Superintending Engineer, Maharashtra Water Resources Department) | Rejuvenation ofMalguzari Tanks in Vidarbha | 19th Feb 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 21 | 21st Water Talk | Shri Anil Singh (Founding Member, Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan) | Efficient Use of Water in Agriculture for Water Security | 15th January 2021 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 20 | 20th Water Talk | Shri Apoorva Oza (Chief Executive Officer, Aga KhanRural Support Programme (AKRSP)-India) | Jal hi Jeevan: Lessons from AKRSP to address Rural Water Challenges | 18th December 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 19 | 19th Water Talk | Shri Laxman Singh (Founder, Gram Vikas Navyuvak Mandal Laporiya) | Conserving Ecology & Biodiversity and securing Livelihoods through Rainwater Harvesting | 20th November 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 18 | 18th Water Talk | Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (Hon’ble Union Minister, Jal Shakti) | Learing from the pages of history of India about water conservation pratices and solving the issues of present. | 16th October 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 17 | 17th Water Talk | Shri Vishwanath Srikantaiah, (Director, BIOME Environmental Trust) | Bengaluru- A Metropolis & its Water Management Challenges- State, Community and Citizens | 18th September 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 16 | 16th Water Talk | Ms Jyoti Sharma, (Founder, FORCE NGO) | Each one a Jal-Rakshak –Care for Water, Work for Water, Be like Water | 21st August 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 15 | 15th Water Talk | Shri Mahesh Sharma, (Founder,Shivganga Foundation, Jhabua) | Halma - A Jal Andolan: Fightingwater crisis through local traditions | 17th July 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 14 | 14th Water Talk | Shri Arun Krishnamurthy, (Founder, Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) Chennai) | Citizens in Lake Conservation, India sets a global agenda in water conservation | 26th June 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 13 | 13th Water Talk | Shri VK Madhavan (Chief Executive, WaterAid, India) | Urban Water Crisis | 22nd May 2020 | PPTs | Summary report | Recording |
| 12 | 12th Water Talk | Shri. Ayyappa Masag | Water Crisis Management | 21st February 2020 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 11 | 11th Water Talk | Shri Balbir Singh Seechewal | Seechewal Model of Water Rejuvenation | 17th January 2020 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 10 | 10th Water Talk | Dr. Mihir Shah, (Former member of erstwhile Planning Commission and Distinguished Professor of Shiv Nadar University) | A New Water | 20th December 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 9 | 9th Water Talk | Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni, (Founder Trustee and Executive Director, ACWADAM) | Groundwater Management and Governance in India | 15th November 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 8 | 8th Water Talk | Shri Heera Lal, (District Magistrate, Banda, UP ) | Water Conservation in Banda District, UP | 18th October 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 7 | 7th Water Talk | Shri Sonam Wangchuk | Water Conservation and construction of artificial Glacier known as Ice-Stupa in Leh-Laddakh Region | 20th September 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 6 | 6th Water Talk | 1. Shri Popat Rao Pawar (Sarpanch, Hiware Bazar, Maharastra), 2. Shri Umakant Umrao (IAS, Secretary, P&RD Dep, GoMP & CEO MPRRDA, Madhya) Pradesh) | 1. Hiware Bazar –A Water Budgeting model, 2.The Dewas Initiative: An economically viable & environmentallysustainable Water Conservation Model ‘Beyond Rivers’ | 23rd August 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 5 | 5th Water Talk | Dr. Tushaar Shah, (Senior Fellow, International Water Management Institute) | Governing India's Energy-Groundwater Nexus: Old constraints & New Opportunities | 19th July 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 4 | 4th Water Talk | Dr. Anil Joshi | Ecology Inclusive Economy | 21st June 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 3 | 3rd Water Talk | 1. Dr. Nayan Sharma, (Emeritus Professor, IIT Roorkee), 2. Shri Pradeep Gandhi | 1. Upgrading Technology in Irrigation, Hydro-Power, Navigation & Flood Control for Optimal Water Conservation, 2.Water Conservation at Ground Level | 24th May 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 2 | 2nd Water Talk | Shri Shashi Shekhar, Former Secretory MoWR | Ground Water Governance: prospective, challenges and suggested interventions | 1st May 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |
| 1 | 1st Water Talk | 1. Shri Pushpendra Bhai, 2. Shri Sachin Oza, 3. Shri Manu Bhatnagar, 4. Alok Sikka | 1. Water conservation in Bundelkhand Aapna Talaab Abhiyan, 2. Urban water supply and management, 3. Ground water management and integrated water resource management in the command area of irrigation systems of northern water | 22nd March 2019 | Summary report | Photographs |