Affordable Technologies for Groundwater Recharge to Sustain Drinking Water Sources in areas of Declining Groundwater – Training 2 (Jal Jeevan Mission)

January 20-21, 2022 

A two days training program on “Affordable Technologies for Groundwater Recharge to sustain Drinking Water Source in Areas of Declining Groundwater”, was conducted between January, 20-21, 2022 on virtual platform Zoom by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. This was done under CSE’s work as Key Resource Centre under Jal Jeevan Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti.

The training was specially designed for officials of Middle Management level – Level 2 (DWSM officials Superintending Engineers, Executive, Engineers, Assistant Engineers, Junior Engineers, Water utility Managers, Hydrologists, Water testing laboratory personnel form Public Health Engineering Department (PHEDs)/rural water supply departments/Public Works Departments etc.).

The objectives of this training program were as follows:

• Understand the basics and issues related to Drinking water source in context of JJM.
• Understanding the need of groundwater recharge to sustain drinking water source.
• Groundwater Recharge criteria, use of Geospatial Technology.
• Understanding the concept of Remote Sensing and GIS for recharge options
• Understanding the use of GIS platform in finding 

The speakers of the training were from NITI Aayog Centre for Science and Environment, , National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur, Delhi University, Central Ground Water Board.

There were in total 68 participants who attended the training program.  The participants were from 10 states and Union Territories–Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Uttrakhand and West Bengal On an average 55 participants were present each day. 

The participants and speakers well appreciated the training and requested for an onsite training programme to have hands on experience of the technologies and gain much more insights towards water sustainable future.