Residential Training on Groundwater Management for Climate-Resilient River Cities : CSE
Date: 5 – 7 December 2023 / Last date to Apply 27th November 23 / Venu: Rajasthan
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
Almost every city in India can claim to be a ‘river’ city – with a river running through or by it. Besides rivers, most Indian cities also house a variety of other waterbodies such as lakes, tanks etc. But with these surface waterbodies getting increasingly polluted, depleted, or simply built over, cities have turned to groundwater to meet their needs – and unchecked, rapacious withdrawal of groundwater by them has led to plunging levels of the resource.
This is a situation which leaves cities in dire straits in these climate change-risked times. Changing rainfall patterns, reduced numbers of rainy days, and the incessant pressure on resources due to the maddening rate of urbanization makes recharging of groundwater a major challenge.
Managing the groundwater that urban centres still have access to, thus, becomes critically important in this scenario, especially in terms of making these cities climate-resilient. This involves mapping the aquifers, locating potential recharge zones, and intelligently managing the extraction of groundwater. This also means understanding the changing rainfall patterns, soils, lithology, physiography and hydrogeology of the cities and towns.
COURSE FEES
No training fee will be charged from nominated government employees.
INR 28500 for Indian participants
USD 350 for foreign participants
Early bird entries (till November 17, 2023) can avail a discount of 10 per cent
Two or more participants from the same organization can avail a discount of 20 per cent (applicable for all participants).
WHO CAN APPLY
- Central/state/municipal functionaries (decision makers/ managers and regulators)
- Engineers (Civil/ Mech/Env) or planners working with water supply and sewerage boards/Jal Nigams or Jal Sansthans.
- Any other functionaries dealing with AMRUT, Smart Cities Mission, Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban), Swachh Bharat Mission (U),
- Atal Bhujal Mission, Namami Gange etc
- Accredited EIA, architecture, and urban planning consultants
- Researchers and academics interested in curriculum development in planning, architecture, and civil engineering.
- Related sector professionals dealing with water, sanitation, flood, river, wetland or environment-related matters in the city and its urbanisable areas.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TRAINING
- Managing groundwater sources in climate risk cities
- Aquifer Mapping at city level
- Monitoring of groundwater – quantity and quality
- City level mapping of groundwater recharge locations using advanced tools
- Visit to successful implementation of groundwater management systems
NOTE
- For nominated government officials – the travel cost to Delhi and back will be borne by the respective nominating department/authority/state
- For others – the travel cost to Delhi and back will be borne by the participants.
- The training fees include the cost of training, boarding and lodging and field trip.
- The participants are expected to reach CSE main office (41, Institutional Area, Tughlakabad), by 12:00 noon on December 4, 2023. Participants reaching after this time have to bear the cost to reach the training centre.
- CSE will arrange the travel from CSE’s main office to training centre (AAETI, Neemli, Alwar, Rajasthan) and back.
- The participants can arrange for their return tickets from Delhi, in the late evening on December 7.
- AAETI is a green residential training campus of CSE. The accommodation and meals will be arranged at AAETI for the participants. Participants should follow the AAETI rules during their period of training in the campus.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT TRAINING COORDINATOR
PRADEEP KUMAR MISHRA
Programme Officer
Water Programme, CSE
pradeep.mishra@cseindia.org
Mob No: + 91 80854 43793
