Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, the Principal Scientific Adviser India, and Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director IIT Madras, on Monday inaugurated the AquaMAP Water Management and Policy Centre at IIT Madras, Tamil Nadu.
AquaMAP is a national water center that aims at providing solutions for complex and challenging water problems by designing and evolving smart and optimal water management practices and implementing them in the field, at different locations across the country, as a scalable model by leveraging best practices in management and innovative technologies.
As water consumption in the agriculture sector is the maximum among all the needs, and therefore focusing on improving the agricultural water use efficiency is one of the major focuses of AquaMAP.
Key Activities of AquaMAP
The key activities of AquaMAP include:
- Field (in villages and towns) implementation of water technologies and management practices
- Identify grand challenges in water/wastewater management for focused attention
- Set up of a state-of-the-art Hydro-Informatics Laboratory
- Water and soil quality analysis: Creation of a digital twin of the Village for environmental management
- Waste management for Clean and Healthy Village
- Automatic Control of Rural Water Supply Schemes
Providing a context in which AquaMAP has been established, Prof. Vijay Raghavan said, “Our world faces the consequences of climate change and the pressure on biodiversity. Thus, renewing our air, water, and land and pressing sustainable development to become important.”
He also said that IIT Madras is collaborating with IIT Dharwad around the broad theme of ‘Data Science for Water Security and Agriculture Sustenance’.
