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Teri celebrates World water day
To ensure quality, availability and accessibility of basic amenities such as water, sanitation infrastructure for all, TERI University (TU) organised ‘SWASH – Save Water and Save Humanity’ as part of World Water Day celebrations. SWASH aims to mobilise the power of youth and promote a sense of initiative and creativity for young minds by channelising their power
Hyderabad: To ensure quality, availability and accessibility of basic amenities such as water, sanitation infrastructure for all, TERI University (TU) organised ‘SWASH – Save Water and Save Humanity’ as part of World Water Day celebrations. SWASH aims to mobilise the power of youth and promote a sense of initiative and creativity for young minds by channelising their power and ideas to find innovative solutions for issues related to water and sanitation.
This initiative is being supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and TERI University’s Coca Cola Department of Regional Water Studies. Acting Director-General of TERI Dr Leena Srivastava said that learning to value water and conserve both its quality and quantity has to become a national movement in India. “TERI University is happy to mobilise the power of the youth through a range of innovative initiatives.
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We need multi-disciplinary understanding to meet the challenge of water. We need to realise that social stress enters society only when there is scarcity of natural resources. There is a need for holistic approach towards water management,” she added stressing that the focus is largely on the engineering aspects.
Focusing on the need to meet the growing demand for basic necessities like water and sanitation infrastructure, Kathryn Stevens, Deputy Mission Director, USAID said, “Urban India is growing rapidly and this issue is important as more and more people are dying due to water and sanitation related diseases such as diarrhea and malaria. We need to meet the challenge by working towards behavioral changes to attain a sustained change.”
The event also witnessed the launch of the Urban WASH Alliance Project website, which will conduct a comprehensive WASH-related risk analysis and human health impacts in clusters of slums in Kolkata and Chennai. The initiative will build and catalyse requisite capacities in faculty, students, and decision-makers to help address the challenges related to sanitation and health.
