E-Dialogues
Shifting dynamics in water management sector to meet water security All India Institute of Local Self- Government, in collaboration with United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), 3R Waste Foundation, and Urban Update, organised the 31st edition of its E-Dialogues Series on the topic “Role of 3R Circular Economy in Water Security of India”. The Webinar was organised as a pre-event of UNCRD’s 11th 3R and Circular Economy Forum, on March 10
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r Kulwant Singh, CEO, 3R Waste Foundation began by giving an introduction to the panel of speakers and welcoming them. The esteemed panel of speakers included CRC Mohanty,
Environment Programme Coordinator, UNCRD; Avinash Mishra, Advisor, NITI Aayog; Dr Harpreet S Kandra, Federation University Australia; Dr Indira Khurana, Chairperson, Indian Himalayan River Basins Council (IHRBC); Rajneesh Sareen, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE); and Anupama Madhok Sud, Director and Editor, Water Digest. Dr Kulwant Singh, mediator of the webinar, gave an introduction of the topic stating that we already know how water is needed to ensure food security, feed livestock, take up industrial production, and to conserve biodiversity and the environment. Even though India is not a water poor country, due to ever growing population of the nation, and due to sheer neglect and over exploitation, water is becoming a scarce commodity in India. He mentioned that the webinar will aim to address the whole issue of water security in India – which will include the needs for it, what are the challenges that we face, and how it can be attained with the approach of 3R and circular economy. The fact that India treats only 22 per cent of its waste water, underscores the need to ramp up its efforts to attain water security, he said. CRC Mohanty, the first and the keynote speaker of the webinar, said that water becomes an important sector for India to work in as it aims to build clean, inclusive, and sustainable spaces in the next three decades. He established that any of the SDGs cannot be achieved without attaining water security. But water scarcity has already hit 40 per cent of the global
