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Roorkee Water Conclave 2024

Roorkee Water Conclave 2024 Secretariat

Department of Hydrology
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
Roorkee-247 667 Uttarakhand, India
Phone: +91-1332-284927
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://www.iitr.ac.in/rwc/

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Roorkee Water Conclave 2024

Programme at a Glance
11.00- 13:30- 16:00- 19:30 onwards
Date/Time 9:00- 11:00 11:30-13:30 14.30 -16.00 16.30-17.30 17.30-18.30
11.30 14:30 16:30

04-March- Cultural
2024 Technical programme
Registration & Plenary Session-1 Plenary Session-2
Session- PICO Session 1 followed by
(Day 1) Inaugural Session (PS 1) (PS 2) Dinner at MAC
1 (TS-1)

Tea Tea
Gala Dinner –
05-March-
Brea Brea Hotel
k & Plenary Session-3 Technical k&
2024 Display Technical session Plenary Session-4 Ambrosia
Session-3 PICO Session 2
of (TS-2) Exhi (PS 3) Lunch
(TS-3)
Exhi (PS 4)) Sarovar
(Day 2) posters bitio bitio Portico
n n
talk talk

06-March- Technical session Concluding

Technical
2024 (TS-4) Plenary Session-5 Session and
session (TS- PICO Session 3
(PS 5) Valedictory
(Day 3) 5)
Function

*Poster of the participants shall be displayed from morning Venue: Multi Activity Centre (MAC), IIT Roorkee
Lunch, Tea and Exhibition at Multi Activity Centre

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PREFACE

Water is crucial for socio-economic development and links with nearly every Sustainable
Development Goal. Nevertheless, water as a resource is unappreciated and used
inefficiently. The increasing worldwide population and rapid urbanization have
motivated a speedy increase in demand for water resources, while 36% of the population
already lives in water-scarce areas. By 2050, the global population will nearly double, and
four billion people will live in water-stressed areas. Due to climate change, many areas
will be at risk of droughts and floods, which will likely increase in the coming decades.
Circular economy has emerged as an answer to the unsustainable linear model of "take,
make, consume, and waste".

It offers an opportunity to identify and seize the complete value of water - as a facility, an
input to developments, a source of energy and transporter of nutrients and other
materials. In a circular economy, water is seen as a limited resource. Negative
externalities are designed, impacts on natural resources are minimized, and watersheds,
spring sheds, rivers and other natural systems are restored. Reusing water, avoiding
water use wherever possible and using other resources are its keys. Designing water
systems through circular economy and resilience principles provides a chance to tackle
the water challenges by providing a systemic and transformative approach to delivering
water supply and sanitation services in a more sustainable, inclusive, efficient, and
resilient way. To achieve the full benefits of water, a circular water system must embrace
resilience and inclusiveness. The conceptualization of a water-smart circular economy
aims to generate a comprehensive picture of water and water-related ecosystems in the
context of the circular economy.

The Roorkee Water Conclave (RWC-2024) is jointly organized by the Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee, and the National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee, two leading
institutions in the field of water resources in India.

“Responsible Water Management and Circular Economy” aims to establish a common

understanding of circular economy principles and resilience in the water sector and to
support countries in implementing those principles. We strive to assimilate the learnings
from different disciplines that cover various facets of Responsible Water Management
and Circular Economy. The conference also aims to accelerate interaction among various
stakeholders.

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About the Roorkee Water Conclave

The Roorkee Water Conclave is a premier international conference on water resources

held every two years in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, and attracts many participants
worldwide. The conference is jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee, and the National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee, two leading institutions in the
field of water resources in India. The conference brings together researchers,
practitioners, policy-makers, and students worldwide to discuss and exchange ideas on
the latest developments, best practices, and innovative water resource management
approaches.

The conference covers a wide range of topics related to water resources, including water
conservation, water quality, water governance, water-related disasters, climate change
impacts on water resources, and emerging technologies for water management. The
conference provides a unique platform for interdisciplinary knowledge sharing,
collaboration, and networking opportunities. In addition to keynote speeches, technical
presentations, and panel discussions, the conference includes field visits, workshops, and
training programs. The conference provides an excellent opportunity for participants to
engage with experts, interact with fellow professionals, and learn about the latest water
resource management tools and techniques. Overall, the Roorkee Water Conclave
envisages playing an essential role in advancing the knowledge and practice of water
resources management and is an essential event for anyone involved in the field of water
resources management.

The Roorkee Water Conclave, 2024 aims to establish a common understanding of circular
economy principles and resilience in the water sector and to support countries in
implementing those principles. We strive to assimilate the learnings from different
disciplines that cover various facets of Sustainable Water Management and Circular
Economy. The conference also aims to accelerate interaction among various
stakeholders. Looking to the aforementioned aspects, the sub-themes of the conference
are as follows:

Conference Subthemes

1. Water Governance and Education

2. Circular Water Economy
3. Smart Water Management
4. Non-conventional Water Resources
5. Rejuvenation of Natural Water Systems
6. Water Resource Assessment and Modelling
7. Water Quality and Human Health
8. Advance Tools and Techniques
9. Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies

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10. Extreme Events

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 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

CHAIRMAN CO-CHAIRMAN
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Dr. Manmohan Kumar Goel

Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant
Director, NIH Roorkee
Director, IIT Roorkee

CONCLAVE COMMITTEE

Prof. Arun Kumar

HRED, IIT Roorkee

Prof. Ankit Agarwal

Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee Dr. Mukesh Kumar Sharma
Sc. F, NIH Roorkee

Prof. Basant Yadav

Dr. M. K. Nema
WRDM, IIT Roorkee

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Sc. E, NIH Roorkee

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Theme-wise Coordinators
Theme Coordinators
A. Water Governance and Education Prof. Manoj Jain, IIT Roorkee
Dr. Anupama Sharma, NIH Roorkee

B. Circular Water Economy Prof. M L Kansal, IIT Roorkee

Er. Omkar Singh, NIH Roorkee

C. Smart Water Management Prof. Ashish Pandey, IIT Roorkee

Dr. Suhas Khobragade, NIH Roorkee

D. Non-conventional Water Resources Prof. A A Kazmi, IIT Roorkee

Dr. A R Senthil Kumar, NIH Roorkee

E. Rejuvenation of Natural Water Prof. Sumit Sen, IIT Roorkee

Systems Dr. R P Pandey, NIH Roorkee

F. Water Resource Assessment and Prof. Deepak Khare, IIT Roorkee

Modelling Dr. MK Goel, NIH Roorkee

G. Water Quality and Human Health Prof. Brijesh K. Yadav, IIT Roorkee
Dr. M K Sharma, NIH Roorkee

H. Advance Tools and Techniques Prof. Sharad Kumar Jain, IIT Roorkee
Dr. P C Nayak, NIH Roorkee

I. Climate Change and Adaptation Prof. C S P Ojha, IIT Roorkee

Strategies Dr. Surjeet Singh, NIH Roorkee

J. Extreme Event Prof. N K Goel, IIT Roorkee

Dr. Anil K Lohani, NIH Roorkee

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COMMITTEES FOR DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES

S. No. Activity Committee Coordinators

1. Media & Publicity 1. Prof. Zulfequar Ahmad, IIT Roorkee

2. Dr. L.N. Thakural, NIH Roorkee

2. Session Management 1. Prof. Ashish Pandey, IIT Roorkee

2. Er. Omkar Singh, NIH Roorkee

3. Inaugural and Valedictory 1. Dr. S.S. Rawat, NIH Roorkee

Function
2. Prof. Kritika Kothari, IIT Roorkee

4. Compering 1. Prof Kritika Kothari, IITR

2. Dr PK Singh NIH

5. Exhibition 1. Prof. M. L. Kansal, IIT Roorkee,

2. Dr. Santosh M Pingle, NIH Roorkee

6. Accommodation & 1. Prof. Sumit Sen, IIT Roorkee,

Transportation
2. Dr. P.K. Singh, NIH Roorkee
3. Dr. Gopal Krishan, NIH Roorkee

7. Catering 1. Prof. S.K. Singal, IIT Roorkee,

2. Dr. Surjeet Singh, NIH Roorkee
3. Prof C S Pant, IIT Roorkee
4. Dr. Sunil Gurrapu, NIH Roorkee
5. Dr Akshaya Verma, NIH Roorkee

8. Cultural Programme Prof Himanshu Joshi, IIT Roorkee

9. Conference Proceedings 1. Prof. Ankit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee

2. Dr. Manish Nema, NIH Roorkee

10. Banners/Poster /Signage 1. Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, IIT Roorkee

2. Dr. Vishal Singh, NIH Roorkee

11. Handling of Special Guests 1. Dr. A. K Lohani, NIH Roorkee

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S. No. Activity Committee Coordinators

2. Prof Brijesh Yadav, IIT Roorkee

12. Hall Management 1. Prof. Mohit Mohanty, IIT Roorkee

2. Dr. Nitesh Patidar, NIH Roorkee

13. Registration 1. Dr. Ashwani Ranade, NIH Roorkee

2. Prof. Nitin Khandelwal, IIT Roorkee

14. Guest and key speakers 1. Dr Archana Sarkar NIH

handling
2. Prof Ashutosh Sharma IIT Roorkee

15. PICO and Poster display, 1. Prof PK Sharma, IITR

management
2. Prof Bhaskar Deka, IITR
3. Dr Lavkush patel, NIH
4. Dr Pradeep Kumar, NIH
5. Dr. Shailendra Kumar, NIH

16. Pico and Poster Paper 1. Prof NK Goel, IIT Roorkee

evaluation
2. Prof CSP Ojha. IIT Roorkee
3. Prof SK Mishra, IIT Roorkee
4. Prof ML Kansal, IIT Roorkee
5. Prof MK Jain, IIT Roorkee
6. Dr AK Lohani, NIH Roorkee

17. NMCG 1. Prof. Arun Kumar, IIT Roorkee

2. Dr. Anupama Sharma, NIH Roorkee

18. Overall Coordination 1. Prof. Arun Kumar, IIT Roorkee

2. Prof. Ankit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee
3. Prof. Basant K. Yadav, IIT Roorkee
4. Dr. M. K Sharma, NIH Roorkee
5. Dr. Manish Nema, NIH Roorkee

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CHIEF GUEST

Ms Debashree Mukherjee
Secretary
Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation
Ministry of Jal Shakti
Government of India

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Nicola Fohrer Prof. Debabrata Sahoo

Keil University, Germany Clemson University, USA

Dr. Aditi Mukherji

International Water
Management Institute, Nepal Prof. Venkatesh Merwade

Purdue University, USA

Prof. Chalida U-tapao Dr. Prasoon Singh

King Mongkut's Institute of The Energy Resources Institute,
Technology, Thailand India

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Prof. Dr. Eduardo Mario Prof. Berit Arheimer

Mendiondo
University of São Paulo, Brazil SMHI, Sweden

Prof. Anushree Malik Prof. Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema

IIT Delhi,India North West University, South Africa

Prof. D. R. Kaushal Prof. Wolfgang Rauch

University of Innsbruck in Austria

IIT Delhi, India

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Prof. Stefan Krause Dr. Daniel Lapworth

University of Birmingham, United BGS, Wallingford, UK

Kingdom

Prof. Sunil K. Sinha Prof. Pradeep Majumdar

IISc Bangalore, India

Virginia Tech, USA

Prof. D Nagesh Kumar

Prof. Bryan Mark
The Ohio State University, USA IISc, Bangalore, India

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Dr. Volkan Filiz Prof. Aavudai

Helmholtz-Zentrum Anandhi Swamy
Hereon, Germany FAMU-FSU, USA

Dr. Bharat Sharma Dr. Sreekanth Janardhanan

International Water CSIRO Environment, Australia
Management Institute, India

Prof. Subimal Ghosh

Prof. Jasmeet Lamba
IIT Bombay, India
Auburn University

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Prof. Arup Kumar Sarma Prof. P. L. Patel

IIT Guwahati, India SVNIT, Surat, India

Dr. Kelly Thorp Dr. Niladri Gupta

US Arid-Land Agricultural Asian Disaster Preparedness
Research Centers, United State Center, Thailand

Shri Kunal Kumar

Prof. Bogdan Popa
Joint Secretary and Mission
University Politehnica of Director, Smart Cities Mission
Bucharest, Romania

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Mr. Sujit Anurag Ekka Prof Rao S Govindaraju

Gradient, PLLC, United States Purdue university, USA

Shri Pradeep Kumar Agarwal Prof. V. Chandrasekar

Joint Secretary, NRDC Colorado State University, United
States

Dr. Masaomi Kimura Dr Bill Hunt

Kindai University, Japan N.C. State University, USA

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Grischek

HTW Dresden, Germany

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Schedule of the “Roorkee Water Conclave 2024”

Schedule for Pre-Conference Activity

Special Title Organisers Date/ Time Venue

Session

Special Introduction to UAV Dr. Siddhartha Khare, March 03, A.P. J.

Session Imagery Processing for Assistant Professor, 2024, Abdul Kalam Block
-I Water Management in Geomatics Engineering
Agriculture group of Civil Engineering 10:00-onwards (APJ AKB-104)
Department, IIT Roorkee

International Association of Archana Sarkar, Berit

Special March 03, A. P. J.
Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Arheimer, Jean-Marie
Session 2024, Abdul Kalam Block
- II HELPING Decade: Science for Kileshye Onema, Ankit
Solutions Agarwal, Jew Das 16:00-onwards (APJ AKB-103)

Riverbank filtration, Dr. Gopal Krishan,

Special March 04, A. P. J.
constructed wetlands and National Institute of
Session 2024, Abdul Kalam Block
-III coupled engineered solutions Hydrology Roorkee,
for water management 14:30-17.30 (APJ AKB-103)
Prof. Thomas Grischek
and Dr. Cornelius Sandhu,
Hydrological
Investigations Division,
and University of Applied
Sciences Dresden (HTW
Dresden, Germany)

Water Resilience at Local

Special National Institute of March 05, A. P.
Level Specific Context to
Session Disaster Management 2024, J. Abdul Kalam Bloc
-IV Mountains k
10:00-onwards
(APJ AKB-103)

Details are given in Annexure-I

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Schedule for Day 1: 06th March 2024

Plenary Session – I (11:30 – 13:30)
Session Chair: Dr. Manmohan K. Goel (NIH)

Session Co-Chair: Prof. Brijesh K. Yadav (IITR)

S. No. Speaker Name Title Time

1 Wolfgang Rauch, University Smart Water Management 11:30 –11:45

of Innsbruck, Austria

2 Nicola Fohrer, CAU Keil, The role of pesticides and their transformation 11:45 –12:00
Germany products: unveiling transport mechanisms and
impacts on aquatic life

3 Jasmeet Lamba, Auburn Subsurface transport of contaminants in 12:00 - 12:15

University, USA pastures: Influence of preferential flow paths

4 Thomas Grischek, HTW The future of RBF for safe water supply (49) 12:15 - 12:30
Dresden, Germany

5 Chalida U-tapao, King A Mathematical Model for Management of 12:30 - 12:45

Mongkut's Institute of Wastewater: Case Study for Bangkok, Thailand
Technology, Thailand

Masaomi Kimura, Kindai Assessing the nutrient load balance in the

6 University, Japan drainage system and natural wetland in 12:45 - 13:00
urbanising Vientiane, Laos

Design magnitudes for compound extremes

7 Rao S Govindraju, Purdue derived from correlated hydrologic time series 13:00-13:15
University, USA data

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Technical Session – I (14:30 – 16:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Nicola Fohrer (Keil University, Germany)

Session Co-Chair: Prof. Sanjeev Kumar Prajapati (IITR)

S. No. Speaker Name Title and Abstract Number Time

1 Volkan Filiz, Helmholtz- Polymer membranes for water purification 14:30 – 14:45
Zentrum Hereon,
Germany

2 Arup Kumar Sarma, IIT Assessing Quality and Quantity of Stream-Wetland 14:45 – 15.00
Guwahati, India Ecosystem using Modelling Technique

3 Remote sensing for water quality monitoring: 15:00-15:10

Pramod Pandey, University determination of turbidity and chlorophyll a (162)
of California Davis, US

4 Variability of major-ion chemistry, solute fluxes of 15:10 – 15:20

Mukesh Sharma, NIH meltwater of River Bhagirathi, physical and chemical
Roorkee, India weathering rates of Gangotri Glacier, India (348)

5 Subodh Sharma, Microplastics Pollution in the High Altitude River Basins 15:20 – 15:30
Kathmandu University, of the Nepal Himalaya (75)
Nepal

6 Ram Devi Tachamo Shah, Exploring the Unseen: A Comprehensive Assessment of 15:30 – 15:40
Kathmandu University, Spring Water Quality in Karnali River Basin of Nepal
Nepal (102)

7 Anusha KC, Kathmandu Inventory of Shallow well, Recharge Area Delineation 15:40 – 15:50
University, Nepal and Water Quality Assessment in Mulpani Area,
Kathmandu (112)

8 Saran Raaj, IIT Mandi, Can Physics Aided Machine Learning Models Perform 15:50 - 16:00
India Better than Tradition Hydrological Models (29)

Tea Break and Exhibitors Pitch

4th March 2024, 16:00 – 16:30
Digital Screen 1
S. No. Company’s Name Title Time

1 Metrohm India Ltd. Multiparameter analysis by 16:05 – 16:15

Metrohm advance
instrumentation- Titric.

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2 IRMRA Flexi Rubber Check Dam technology 16.15 – 16:25

Plenary Session – II (4th March 2024, 16:30 – 17:30)

Session Chair: Prof. CSP Ojha (IITR)
Session Co-Chair: Dr. Rajesh Singh (NIH)

S. No. Speaker Name Title Time

1 Debabrata Sahoo, Clemson Impact of stream restoration on nutrient 16:30 –16:45

University, USA dynamics in urban systems

2 Bogdan Popa, University Smart Water Management with focus on 16:45 –17:00
Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania population and hydropower

3 Kelly Thorp, US Arid-Land Precision Irrigation Technologies to 17:00 - 17:15

Agricultural Research Centers, US Improve Irrigation Scheduling in the
Desert Southwest, USA

4 Stefan Krause, The University of Identifying drivers and controls of 17:15 - 17:30
Bermingham, UK microplastic fate and transport at the
Ganga river

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Schedule for Day 2: 05th March 2024

Technical Session – II (5th March 2024, 09:00 – 11:00)
Session Chair: Prof. Sunil K. Sinha (Virginia Tech, US)
Session Co-Chair: Dr. Surjeet Singh (NIH)

S. No. Speaker Name Title and Abstract ID Time

1 Salini Sasidharan, Oregon Groundwater Resilience and Agriculture Competitiveness 09:00 – 9:10
Through Climate-Adaptive Multibeneficial Managed
State University, US
Aquifer Recharge

2 Martin Wagner, DVGW Smart Water Applications of Drinking Water Quality and 09:10 – 9:20
Technologiezentrum Quantity Assessment (31)
Wasser, Germany

3 Anant Patel, Nirma Enhancing Flood Prediction Model Accuracy Via 09:20 – 9:30
University, Gujarat, India Integrating Ensemble Precipitation TIGGE Data Of
ECMWF, NCEP, IMD and NCMRWF (242)

4 Suparana Katyaini, Council Water use in India’s agriculture: Key indications for 09:30 – 9:40
on Energy, Environment and moving from water scarcity towards water security?
Water, India (139)

5 Kumarjeeb Pegu, National India's Sustainable Practices in Regulation and Legal 09:40 – 9:50
Law University, Odisha, Governance of Wastewater Management Systems and
India Access to Improved Drinking Water Supply: A Socio-Legal
Analysis (305)

6 Jyoti Sharma, IIM Bodhgaya, Behavioral Economics Insights in Water Management 09:50 – 10:00
India Policy: A Literature Review (291)

7 Hilmar Boernick, Institute of Attenuation of organic micropollutants during riverbank 10:00 –10:10
Water Chemistry, TU filtration in India (40)
Dresden, Germany

8 Basudev Biswal, IIT Bombay, The Need to Teach the History of Hydrology (257) 10:10 –10:20
India

9 Nirban Laskar, Mizoram A Study of Spring Water Quality and Its Sustainable 10:20 –10:30
University, India Approach: an assessment of natural springs of Champhai
and Mamit District of Mizoram, India (109)

10 Indranil De, Institute of Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Natural Treatment Systems 10:30 - 10:40
Rural Management Anand, in India (97)
India

11 Aggie Suman, TKM College of Analysis of hydrological alterations in the Mahanadi River 10:40–10:50
Engineering, Kollam, India Basin, India (245)

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Tea Break and Exhibitors Pitch

5th March 2024, 11:00 – 11:30
Digital Screen 1

S. No. Company’s Name Title Time

1 DHI Introduction to DHI and MIKE 11:05 – 11:15

software

2 PAN India Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Real-time water quality and 11.15 – 11:25
level measurements using
In-Situ Instruments

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Plenary Session – III (5th March 2024, 11:30 – 13:30)

Session Chair: Prof. Thomas Grischek (HTW Dresden, Germany)
Session Co-Chair: Prof. PK Sharma (IITR)

S. No. Speaker Name Title Time

1 Bryan G. Mark, The Ohio Climate Change and Adaptation within the 11:30 –11:45
State University, USA World's Water Towers

2 V. Chandrasekar, Colorado Use of high-resolution radar networks for water 11:45 –12:00
State University, USA and flood management

3 Anushree Malik, IIT Delhi, Building Diatom Bio-refinery: converting thermal 12:00 - 12: 15
India power plant effluent to sustainable nano-
materials and fuel precursors

4 Bharat Sharma, Blue Horizons: Pioneering Non-Conventional 12:15 - 12:30

International Water Water Resources for Asia's Prosperity
Management Institute, New
Delhi, India

5 Sunil K. Sinha, Virginia A just & equitable water future for all in an ever- 12:30 - 12:45
Tech, USA changing environment

6 Bill Hunt, North Carolina Evolution of storm water management in the mid- 12:45 - 13:00
State University, USA Atlantic USA

7 Sujit Anurag Ekka, Gradient, Swales and “Smarter” Swales to Manage Rodway 13:00 - 13:15
PLLC, US Stormwater Runoff

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Technical Session – III (5th March 2024, 14:30 – 16:00 )

Session Chair: Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar (IISc, Bangalore)
Session Co-Chair: Prof. Sumit Sen (IITR)

S. No. Speaker Name Title and Abstract Number Time

1 Anil Gupta, NIDM, Integrated Risk-Resilience (IRR) Models and Strategies for 14:30 –14:40
New Delhi, India Water Hazards: Lessons and Experiences"

2 Maya Raghunath Statistical downscaling to obtain high-resolution GRACE products 14:40 –14:50
Suryawanshi, IISc over India (334)
Bengaluru

Large-scale spring assessment in the Himalayas using citizen

3 Deep Narayan Shah, science: Exploring challenges and benefits (103) 14:50 –15:00
Kathmandu
University, Nepal

4 Rahul K Jaiswal, NIH Assessment of Irrigation Return Flow from Open Canal Irrigation 15:00– 15:10
Bhopal, India Command using Water Balance Model (195)

5 Srinivas Kondapalli, 15:10 – 5:20

Verisk Extreme Developing A Large-Scale Flood Model For Cold
Event Solutions, Regions of Canada (70)
Hyderabad, India

6 Divya Sardana, IIT CMIP6 Model Evaluation of Arctic Sea Ice Conditions (356) 15:20 –15:30
Roorkee, India

7 Vamsi Krishna Vema, Assessment of individual and combined effects of climate and 15:30-15:40
NIT Warangal, India LULC changes on the hydrology (99)

8 Muthiah Perumal, Two novel entropy-based river discharge estimation methods 15:40 –15:50
Former professor,
IIT Roorkee, India

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Tea Break and Exhibitors Pitch

5th March 2024, 16:00 – 16:30
Digital Screen 1
S. No. Company’s Name Title Time

1 Electrosteel Casting Ltd. Ductile Iron - Restrained Joint 16:05 – 16:15

Pipes in Water based
Applications.

2 Campbell Scientific Inc.. Campbell Products and Profile 16.15 – 16:25

Plenary Session – IV (5th March 2024, 16:30 – 17:30)

Session Chair: Prof. Bryan Mark (The Ohio State University,, US)
Session Co-Chair: Prof. D S Arya (IITR)

S. No. Speaker Name Title Time

1 Allen Bradley, Department of Forecast Quality of Seasonal Ensemble Predictions of 16:30 –16:45
Civil & Environmental Flood Risk in the United States (55)
Engineering, University of
Iowa, US

2 D. Nagesh Kumar, Indian Deep Learning and Geospatial Techniques in 16:45 -17:00
Institute of Science, Agriculture Management
Bangalore, India

3 Dr. K. Rajkumar, Indian Water Resource Management by Flexi Rubber Check 17:00 - 17: 10
Rubber Manufacturers Dams: An Innovative Technology
Research Association

4 Jai Nigam, NABARD The Development Initiatives of NABARD 17:10 - 17:20

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Technical Session – IV (6th March 2024, 09:00 – 11:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Berit Arheimer (SMHI, Sweden)
Session Co-Chair: Dr. Archana Sarkar (NIH)

S. No. Speaker Name Title and Abstract Number Time

1 Madhusudan Ingale, Center Complexity analysis of soil moisture - rainfall relation over 09:00 – 9:10
for Climate Change Research, core monsoon zone of India (166)
IITM, , Pune, India

2 Mukesh Kumar Dey Groundwater Level Variation Forecasting in Coastal Area 09:10 – 9:20
IIT Bombay, India of Chennai Basin in India Using CMIP 6 and Deep
Learning Technique (203)

3 Prashant S Istalkar, IIT Highlighting the Need for Focusing on Hydrological- 09:20 – 9:30
Bombay, India Process Understanding in the Era of Machine Learning
(271)

4 Sharad K Jain, IIT Roorkee, Advancing Water Footprint Analysis in India through 09:30 – 9:40
India Interactive Web Technology (171)

5 Pankaj R. Dhote, IIRS Remote sensing-based river bathymetry estimation and 09:40 – 9:50
Dehradun, India its hydrodynamic modeling implications (189)

6 Vijaykumar Bejagam, IIT How CMIP6 Earth System Models project the terrestrial 09:50 – 10:00
Roorkee, India ecosystem productivity in India? (123)

7 Venkatesh B, NIH Belagavi, Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on inflow of 10:00 – 10:10
India Mula Reservoir – A Case Study (136)

8 T Thomas, NIH Roorkee, Comparison of drought characteristics during two 10:10 – 10:20
India contrasting time zones in Chambal basin in Madhya
Pradesh (182)

9 Aindrila Ghosh Water Footprint assessment over the Central and North 10:20 – 10:30
Eastern plateau region of Jharkhand near the Ganga
river basin (36)

10 Prayon Joshi Integrated Remote Sensing And Machine Learning 10:30 – 10:40
Approach For Monitoring Freshwater Lakes: A Case
Study In The Lake Cluster Of Pokhara
Valley, Nepal (108)

Tea Break and Exhibitors Pitch

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6th March 2024, 11:00 – 11:30

Digital Screen 1

S. No. Company’s Name Title Time

1 SEBA Hydrometrie River Discharge 11:05 – 11:15

Measurement using Image
Velocimetry

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Plenary Session – V (6th March 2024, 11:30 – 13:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Bogdan Popa (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
Session Co-Chair: Prof. N K Goel (IITR)

S. No. Speaker Name Title Time

Berit Arheimer, Swedish Meteorological

1 and Hydrological Institute, Sweden World-wide HYPE in collaborative global- 11:30 –
knowledge exchange for water security 11:45

2 Prof. Venkatesh M. Merwade, Purdue 11:45 –

RIMORPHIS – A platform for discovering and
University, US 12:00
processing river morphology data

3 Prof. P. L. Patel, SVNIT Surat, India Flood Risk Assessment of Lower Tapi Coastal 12:00 - 12:
Urban Floodplain in India 15

4 Dr. Niladri Gupta, Asian Disaster Blueprints for Resilience: Integrating Water 12:15 -
Preparedness Center, Thailand Accounting into Climate Adaptation Strategies 12:30

5 Eduardo Mario Mendiondo, University of Human-Water Modelling, Assessment and 12:30 -

São Paulo, Brazil Infrastructure for Restoring Energy, Food and 12:45
Habitats in the XXIst Century

6 Aavudai Anandhi Swamy, FAMU-FSU, What does the literature say about smart water 12:45 –
USA management? 13:00

Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema, North West

7 University, South Africa Rethinking skills sets for improved Water 13:00-
Resources Management in the face of Artificial 13:15
Intelligence and Machine Learning in Africa.

8 Shri Kunal Kumar, IAS, Joint secretary Smart Cities Mission 13:15-
and mission director, Smart Cities 13:30
mission

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Technical Session – V (6th March 2024, 14:30 – 16:00 )

Session Chair: Prof. P L Patel (SVNIT, Surat)
Session Co-Chair: Prof. Deepak Khare (IITR)

S. No. Speaker Name Title and Abstract Number Time

1 Deo Raj Kaushal, IIT Delhi, 3D CFD-based hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport 14:30 –14:45
India Modelling

2 Bhupendra Joshi, Banaras Trend Analysis, Change Point Detection and Drought 14.45-14.55
Hindu University, India Assessment in Magadh Division of Bihar (297)

Hydrodynamic modelling to guide restoration of a

3 Pankaj Mani, NIH Roorkee, channel in Tarai region of Uttar Pradesh (100) 14.55 –15:05
India

4 Sujata S. Kulkarni, IIT The Association Between Arctic Sea Ice Extent And 15:05 - 15:15
Roorkee, India Indian Precipitation: A Quantitative Analysis (147)

5 Nikunj K. Mangukiya, IIT Enhancing Streamflow Predictions In The Indian 15:15 - 15:25
Roorkee, India Subcontinent Using Long Short-Term Memory
Network (90)

6 Moti Poudel, Kathmandu Assessment of Microbial Contamination of Drinking 15:25 - 15:35

University, Nepal Water and Sanitary Inspection Effectiveness at the
Point of Use (PoU), Nepal (76)

7 Pooja Singh, IIT Roorkee, Spatiotemporal And Vertical Variability Of Water 15:35 - 15:45
India Quality In Lentic Small Water Bodies (Lswbs):
Implications Of Varying Rainfall And Land Use
Conditions (325)

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PICO Session (03 min 0ral research pitch Poster)

PICO – Presenting Interactive COntent – is a type of scientific presentation that combines the
advantages of oral and poster presentations.

Prepare your PICO presentation.

● A PICO presentation consists of a 3-minute oral (see picture 1) followed by a

discussion (picture 2) on the poster.
● PICO authors must prepare one presentation of a summary of their work for the
introductory 3-minute oral pitch.
● Your presentation file must be PowerPoint or PDF, and videos and animations must be
embedded.
● After the oral session of the 3-minute presentations of each individual author, the on-
site other participants will continue with the interactions at the poster.
● We have also installed 03 digital screens if you would like to bring longer PPTs to
show and discuss with the audiences (Not mandatory).

Picture 1: PICO presentation on the digital Picture 2: Poster presentation to discuss

screen. Share your work summary and invite the work.
interested participants to the poster for
further discussion.

Important

● The Physical Poster specifications are as follows: A1 Size

● Please also share the digital presentation of your work in 2-3 slides to discuss on the
digital board.

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PICO Session – 1 (4th March 2024, 17:30 Onwards)

Theme: Water Quality and Human Health
PICO Session 1: Screen-1
Date- 04 March 2024; Time- 17:30 – Onwards

Session Chair: Prof. Brijesh K. Yadav, (IITR)

Session Co-Chair: Dr. MK Sharma, (NIH)

Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
1 61 Assessment Of Water Quality In The Piped Water Supply System In Bhubaneswar City
(Kshyana Prava Samal*; Ashok Kumar Tarai; Tanmay Mohanty)
Planning Towards A Water Secure Guwahati, Assam, India: Modelling For Sustainability
2 66 And Accounting For Externalities
(Nikita Neog*; Kamal Deka)
Impact Of Landscape And Forest Tree Diversity On The Water Health In The Mand River
3 71 Watershed
(Sudhir Ranjan Choudhury*; Ajay Kumar Singh)
Hydro Geochemistry And Drinking Water Quality In The Himalayan Mountains,
Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Nepal
4 81
(Ishan Subedi*; Simon Baniya; Suman Prakash Pradhan; Subodh Sharma; Kirsten N.
Nicholson)
Antimicrobial Resistance Assessment And Water Quality Indexing For Surface Water
5 107 Resources In The Urban Regions Of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
(Sreelekshmi V*)
Application Of Circular Economy In Water Treatment By Using Waste Materials
6 138 Through Green Synthesis
(Shrihari S*)
Assesing The Variability Of Water Quality And River Bed Sediment Characteristic Of
7 144 Ganga River
(Shashi Ranjan*; Surjeet Singh; Sumant Kumar)
8 145 Evaluation Of Water Chemistry In The Coastal Aquifers Of Eastern Odisha, India
(Smruti Pragyan Parija*)
Enhancing Water Quality Management In Rengali Catchment: A Comprehensive
Approach To Predicting Nutrient Loading Amidst Lulc Changes And Climate
9 152
Change Impacts
(Manoj Kumar Pujari*; Ratnakar Swain)
A Simplified Method To Determine Algal Biomass And Chlorophyll Concentrations In
10 163 Shallow River Littoral Zones
(Pramod Pandey*)
Recent Advances Of Agricultural Waste Residues As Bioadsorbent For
Heavy Metal Removal: An Environmentally Friendly Approach For Managing
11 179 Waste
(Niranjan, Umare Shubhangi*; Thawait, Ajay Kumar; Dhawane, Sumit H. ;
Kumar, Sachin)
Development Of Characterization Of Synthesized Metal Oxide Adsorbents For
12 192 Fluoride Removal In Water
(Vaishali Chauhan*; Kalisadhan Mukherjee; Anirban Das)

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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Assessing The Impact Of Elevated Iron Concentration On Groundwater Quality
Using Different Water Quality Indices (Wqi) In Rural Dongola City,
13 209
Northern Sudan.
(Ghofran Elshafie Mudawi*; Ajit Kumar; Basant Yadav)
Improving Urban Water Resilience Through Reuse Of Reclaimed Wastewater: A Circular
14 220 Economy Approach
(Divya Dubey*; Venkatesh Dutta)
Water Quality Monitoring Network For Rural Potable Water Supply Scheme In
15 68 Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu, India
(K Nagalakshmi*; R Lavanya; K Raju; Sharmila V)
Nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium recovery from agricultural wastewater using
16 359 biochar
(Reema*; Sanjeev Kumar Prajapati; Sonal K. Thengane)
Assessing the Efficiency of Drinking Water Treatment Plant in Dhulikhel, Nepal
17 74 (Smritee Subedi*; Prayon Joshi; Prativa Poudel; Suman Prakash Pradhan; Subodh
Sharma)
Bridging Hydrochemical Interpretation: Comparative Analysis of Piper and Chadha
18 155 Diagrams for Groundwater Facies Mapping
(Someshwar Rao)
Assessment of hydrochemical characteristics and load fluxes in the Song River basin,
19 274 Dehradun District, Uttarakhand
(Shams Quamar*; Harendra Prasad Singh; Pradeep Kumar)

Theme: Water Resources Assessment and Modelling

PICO Session 1: Screen-2
Date- 04 March 2024; Time- 17:30 – Onwards

Session Chair: Prof. Arup Kumar Sarma (IIT Guwahati)

Session Co-Chair: Dr. MK Goel (NIH)

S. No. Abstract Id. Topic (Authors)

Agricultural Drought Risk Assessment In Telangana Using Ssmi Based Multi
1 18 Threshold Run Theory
(Hussain Palagiri*; Manali Pal)
Evaluation Of Scs-Cn Method For Incorporation Of Antecedent Rainfall
2 73
(Esmatullah Sangin*)
Can Remote Sensing Data Limit Equifinality In Hydrological Models?
3 92
(Aashi Agarwal*; Vamsi Krishna Vema)
Dam Breach Analysis And Flood Inundation Mapping For Umiam Dam, Meghalaya,
4 106 India
(Amrita Nongbet; Sushmita Gouraha*; Dhyan Singh Arya)
Determining The Combined Impact Of Precipitation Patterns And Land Use
Land Cover Change On Streamflow Trend In The Mahanadi River
5 110
Sub-Basin Of India
(Prashant Prashant*; Surendra Kumar Mishra; Anil Kumar Lohani)
Contribution Of River And Flood Plain Water To Terrestrial Water Storage In The
6 113 Brahmaputra Basin
(Priyam Deka*; Ved Prakash; Bhanu Magotra; Manabendra Saharia)
Deriving Optimal Policies Of Multi-Reservoir System Based On Differential Evolution
7 114
Algorithm Strategies

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S. No. Abstract Id. Topic (Authors)

(Lalitesh Sinha*; Lalitesh Sinha; Sandeep M. Narulkar)

Identification Of The Most Suitable Combination Of Transfer And Loss Method

8 132 Provided By Hec-Hms For Continuous Streamflow Simulation
(Nandana V P*)

Projected Water Availability In The Tawa River Basin In Changing Climate

9 141
(Pragya Badika*)
Modeling And Simulation Of Reservoir Operation Using Hec-Resim For Pamba River
10 156 Basin In Kerala
(Ananya Sarkar*; T K Drissia)
Experimental And Numerical Study Of Critical Submergence For Lateral Dual
11 201 Hydraulic Intakes
(Bhagwan Das*)
Spatial Autocorrelation In Groundwater Levels
12 204
(Saif Ali*)
Hydrogeological Analysis And Groundwater Modelling In The Tawa Command: A
13 208 Comprehensive Study Of District- Hoshangabad, M.P.
(Sourabh Nema*; Sudesh Singh Choudhary)
Frequency Analysis Of Compound Heat And Wet Events Over Nepal
14 219
(Bishnu Prasad Neupane*)
A Comprehensive Integration Of Geospatial, Remote Sensing, And Machine Learning
15 223 Approaches For Flood Susceptibility Modelling In Arambag, West Bengal, India
(Chiranjit Singha*)
India's Hydrological Data Assessment: Glofas Discharge Data Reliability Across
16 225 Diverse Flow Conditions And Temporal Resolutions
(Ruchir Patidar*; Santosh Murlidhar Pingale; Deepak Khare)
Understanding The Impact Of Land Use And Land Cover Change On Groundwater
17 233 Level Dynamics: A Geospatial Analysis
(Mohammad Ahsan Sayeed*; Rajat Kr Sharma)
Site Selection for Sewage and Water Treatment Facilities towards Resilient Water
Infrastructure for a Hilly Riverbank City – A Case Study of Paonta Sahib in Himachal
18 96
Pradesh (India)
(Mitthan Lal Kansal*; Nulu Shanmukha Dheeresh)
Assessment of Future Water Availability in the Mbarali River Watershed, Tanzania
19 328 under RCP Scenarios
(Biswajit Das*; Aloyce Karlum; Sumit Sen)
Uncertainty in Rating Curves
20 153
(Sanjay Kumar*; Sunil Gurrapu ; Jagdish Patra; Laxmi Narayan Thakural)

Theme: Advance Tools and Techniques

PICO Session 1: Screen-3
Date- 04 March 2024; Time- 17:30 – Onwards

Session Chair: Prof. Sharad Kumar Jain (IITR)

Session Co-Chair: Dr. PC Nayak (NIH)

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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Unsteady Flow Analysis Of Hemavati River, Tributary Of Cauvery River Using Hec-Ras
1 47
(Mukul Kumar Sahu*; Shwetha H R; Dwarakish G. S.)

A Framework To Accurate Estimation Of Soil Moisture In Data-Scares Region Using Machine

2 93 Learning
(Indhu B Dasari*; Vamsi Krishna Vema)

Extended Probability Distributions For Unit Hydrograph Derivation

3 98
(Esmatullah Sangin*; Esmatullah Sangin)
Analysis Of Hydro-Meteorological Dataset In The Context Of Gandak River Basin Floods
4 111 Through Recent Advances In Earth Observations Techniques
(Suryansh Mandloi*; Lokesh Patel; Deepshikha Negi; Rishi Pathak)
Flood Forecasting In Baitarani Basin Using Lstm Model
5 125
(P C Nayak*; Meenakshi Ramola; Koustav Nath)
Sensitivity Analysis Of Factors Affecting The Irrigation Water Demand Using Cropwat
6 151 Software: A Case Study Of A Semi-Arid Zone In India
(Damodar Sharma*; S. K. Mishra; R. P. Pandey)
Correlation And Regression-Based Approach: Remote Sensing Indices As Indicators Of
7 236 Agricultural Drought And Crop Yield
(Kapil Bhoutika; Sandeep Kumar Chourasia*; Dilip Barman; Ashish Pandey)
Model Development For Critical Shear Stress Based On Artificial Neural Network
8 248
(Umesh Kumar Singh*; Dr. Pijush Dutta; Sanjeet Kumar)
Modelling River Network Morphology And Its Implications
9 249
(Dnyanesh Vijay Borse*; Basudev Biswal)
Assessing Spatiotemporal Rainfall Uniformity Over North India Using Relative Entropy And
Advance Trend Detection Approach
10 255
(Deepak Kumar*; Vinod Kumar Tripathi; Kanhu Charan Panda; Abhishek Agrawal; Harshita
R Ahirwar)
Landuse Land Cover Change Detection And Prediction Using Markov Chain Modeling
11 258 Approach
(Surendra Kumar Chandniha; Manish K Nema*; Mitthan Lal Kansal)
Comparative Assessments Of Satellite Based Actual/Reference Et Products Using Multi-
12 276 Criteria Decision Making (Mcdm) Techniques In Semi-Arid Climate
(Richa Pandey*; Jitendra Rajput)
Influence Of Elevation On Evapotranspiration In The Northern Himalayas
13 283
(Shailesh Kumar Jha*; Vivek Gupta)
Time Series Analysis Of Optical And Microwave Data For Comprehensive Crop Monitoring
14 298
(Shailesh Kumar Jha*; Yash Shukla; Dericks Praise Shukla; Vivek Gupta)
Which Modeling Approach Performs Better For Simulating Streamflow In The Parvara Mula
15 309 Basin, India: Process-Based Swat Or Machine Learning?
(Usman A Mohseni*; Azazkhan Ibrahim Pathan)
A Quantitative And Graphical Approach To The Seawater Intrusion Dynamics In The Coastal
Aquifers Of Eastern Odisha
16 344
(Smruti Pragyan Parija*; Somnath Khaoash; Atulya Kumar Mohanty; Emmanuel Gaen; Priyajit
Samal; Pallavi Nayak; Patitapaban Mishra)
Estimation of evapotranspiration by using machine learning techniques and meteorological
17 133 data
(Sharad K Jain*)
Assessment and prediction of groundwater quality index in groundwater systems using soft
18 366 computing techniques in Roorkee, Haridwar Region (ANN, ANFIS)
(Dinesh Rai*; Rashmi Saini; Sudhir Kumar; Shwetank Arya)

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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Characteristics Features and Changes in ‘Large-scale Long-period’ and ‘Spatio-temporal
19 63 Isolated’ Extremes across Northwest Himalaya
(Ashwini A Ranade*)
Remote Sensing-Based Observation Of Improvement In The Water Clarity Of Trishuli River,
20 337 Nepal During Covid-19 Lockdown 2020
(Bibek Shrestha*; Prayon Joshi; Anu Rai; Shreeya Manandhar)

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PICO Session – 2 (5th March 2024, 17:30 Onwards)

Theme: Water Quality and Human Health

PICO Session 2: Screen-1
Date- 05 March 2024; Time- 17.30 Onwards

Session Chair: Prof. Brijesh K. Yadav, (IITR)

Session Co-Chair: Dr. MK Sharma, (NIH)

Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Microplastics In Aquatic Environment Known And Unknowns
1 228
(Vijaykumar Sekar*; Baranidharan Sundaram)
Status Of Ground Water And Its Quality In Uttar Pradesh
2 232
(Nity Tripathi*; Venkatesh Dutta; Shashank Shekhar Mishra)
Water Security In The Sagarmatha National Park: Investigating The Impact Of Climate
3 239 Change.
(Kirsten N Nicholson*; Smrita Acharya; Klaus Neumann; Subodh Sharma)
A Critical Review Of Microplastics In Water Systems: Challenges, Approaches, And
Future Prospects
4 251
(Jayanth Kambhampati; Shanthan Arrolla; Satyam Kumar; Vijaykumar Sekar*;
Baranidharan Sundharam)
Hydrogeochemical Characteristics And Quality Assessment Of Groundwater In East
5 290 Khasi Hills District Of Meghalaya, India
(Nehara Begum*; Vivek Kumar; Dibyendu Paul)
Coupling Hydrochemistry And Stable Isotopes To Identify Hydrological Processes In
6 295 Amd Affected Streams In Meghalaya
(Vivek Kumar*; Dibyendu Paul; Sudhir Kumar)
Assessing Groundwater Hydrogeochemistry, Water Quality And Human Health Risk In
7 313 The Rural Cluster Of Hindon River Basin, India
(Kartik Dhanjibhai Jadav*; Basant Yadav)
Understanding The Cadmium (Cd) Movement In The Surface Runoff Considering
8 316 Varying Rainfall Conditions.
(Diriba Kebede Seboka*; Kartik Dhanjibhai Jadav; Basant Yadav)
Evaluation Of Constructed Wetland For Chemical And Bacterial Removal
9 321
(Shubha Dixit*; Rajesh Singh)
Water Quality Monitoring For Community-Managed Aquifer Recharge And Water
Quality Indices In An Arid Region
10 322
(Lakka Boyina Naga Sudarshan; Ashwani Mr Kumar; Poonam Rana; Amit Kumar*;
Basant Yadav)
Impact Of Socio-Economic-Environmental Changes On Lentic Small Water Bodies
11 326 (Lswbs) In India
(Tanya Nema; Pooja Singh*; Basant Yadav; Ilhan Özgen Xian)
Navigating Intermittent Irrigation For Sustainable Water And Nutrient Management
12 329
(Jayantifull Hoojon*; Idhaya Chandhiran Ilampooranan)
Assessment Of Groundwater Quality Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (Ert)
13 331 Integrated With Physiochemical Analysis In Saliyar Landfill, Roorkee
(Genzeb Yimech Melkamu; Abhay Raj*; Basant Yadav)
Bioremediation Of Mn 2+ By Thermophilic Strains Bacillus Aerius Strain
Ccmmb964, Oceanobacillus Caeni Strain Jnw-23, And Bacillus Composti Strain Sgz-9
14 345
Isolated From
Hot Springs Of Uttarakhand.

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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
(Anjali Patil*; Yagyavalkya Sharma; Vishal Khandelwal; Sachin Singh; Mamta Arya)

Development Of Sensor-Based Water Quality Prediction Model Using Machine Learning

15 330 Algorithms
(Kola Veera Venkata Bhavani Sivannarayana; Abhay Raj*; Basant Yadav)

The suitability of drinking qualities of underground and surface water sources of Bhopal
16 51 City for futuristic needs : A comparative study
(Prashant Pandey*)
Hydrogeochemical Investigation of Heavy Toxic elements in Groundwater in the Malwa
17 353 region of Punjab state, India
(Neeraj Chauhan*; Stefan Krause; Jaswant Singh; Amrit Pal Toor; Alok Srivastava)
Behavioural Transformations for Revitalising Lakes: Reuse of leftover treated sewage
18 364 water for groundwater recharge in Bengaluru
(Madhuri Subbarao; Druthi Anish)
Moving bed hybrid bioreactor for simultaneous removal of organics, nitrogen, and
phosphate from landfill leachate at different hydraulic retention times: A process
19 254
optimization
(Vikalp Saxena*)

Theme: Water Resources Assessment and Modelling

PICO Session 2: Screen-2
Date- 05 March 2024; Time- 17.30 Onwards

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Eduardo Mario Mendiondo (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Session Co-Chair: Dr. MK Goel (NIH)

Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Event-Wise Analysis And Prediction Of Suspended Sediment Recession Curves
1 241
(Laxmipriya Mohanty*; Basudev Biswal)
Enhancing Streamflow Forecasting Through The Integration Of Recession Flow And
2 247 Rainfall-Runoff Models
(Akshay P Kadu*; Basudev Biswal)
Simulation And Forecasting Of Streamflows Using Machine Learning Models In
3 260 Mahanadi River Basin, India
(Chinmaya Panda*)
Discharge Estimation Of A Data-Scarce Integrated River Basin System In Eastern India
4 261 (Smaranika Mahapatra; Shivam Pandey*; Naga Manohar Velpuri; Alok Sikka; Rajib
Maity; Prabhat Kumar Mishra; Akhilesh Parey)
Capturing The Response Of Ephemeral Streams In Lower Himalayan Region Using Low-
5 266 Cost Soil Moisture Sensor
(Deependra Choudhary*; Sumit Sen)
Evaluating The Variability In Long-term Rainfall And Stream Flow Over Muvattupuzha
6 268 River Basin Using Advanced Statistical Techniques
(Shilpa M Athithottam*; Ramesh H)
Water Availability Estimation In Data-Scarce Regions With A Modified Dynamic Budyko
7 270
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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
(Prashant S Istalkar*; Basudev Biswal)

Investigation Of Hydraulic Response To Leakage Scenarios In Water Distribution

8 308 Network Using Epanet: Case Study Of Iit Jodhpur
(Shailendra Chauhan; Shobhana Singh*)
A Comparative Analysis Of Low Flow Modeling Approaches To Understand The
9 323 Catchment Response In The Lesser Indian Himalayas
(Nishant Saxena*; Sumit Sen)
Addressing In-Situ Data Scarcity In Hydrological Modelling: A Multivariate Calibration
10 339 Approach Using Remote Sensing Datasets
(Praveen Kalura*; Ashish Pandey; V.M. Chowdary; Deen Dayal)
Unravelling Groundwater Flow Regime And Recharge Sources Of Waterlogged
11 350 Farmland: Hydrogeological And Isotopic Approaches For Remedial Measures
(V Ramganesh, Brijesh Kumar Yadav)
Terrestrial Water Storage Reconstructon
12 335
(Vivek Kumar Yadav*; Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma)
Hydrological Modeling For Water Balance Prediction, Streamflow Trend Analysis, And
13 336 Variability Assessment: A Case Study Of Rivers In Afghanistan
(Saifullah Amanzai*)
Assessment Of Output Parameter Of Sewage Treatment Plant Using Machine Learning
14 256 Based Models
(Tejash Singh*; Pratham Arora)
Groundwater Potential Zonation For The Hailakandi District Using Mif And Gis
15 338 Techniques
(Mansur Ahmed Chowdhury; Briti Sundar Sil*)
Groundwater Level Dynamics and Agricultural Land- use Change in the Gangetic Basin
16 10
(Saif Ali*; Gaurav Arora)
Analysing The Climate Teleconnections Of Meteorological Variables And Drought Of
17 230 Kerala, India Using Wavelet Coherence
(Fathima Nazreen K*; Meera G Mohan; Nandan Jayaraj; Parvathy B; Salman N; Adarsh S)
Deciphering The Shape Parameter Dynamics In The Non-Stationary Flood Frequency
18 235 Analysis
(Meera G Mohan*; Adarsh S)
Geomorphic Signatures of Landscape Evolution: Insights from Hack's Law and Energy
19 361 Expenditure
(Saba Shakeel Raina*, Dynanesh Borse and Basudev Biswal)
Assessing The Synergistic Effects Of Land Use Land Cover Changes And Climate
Variability On Soil Erosion And Sediment Yield: A Comprehensive Analysis
20 175 And Modeling Approach
(Sachin Kumar*; Mahendra Kumar Choudhary; T Thomas;
Umare Shubhangi Niranjan)

Theme: Smart Water Management and Circular Water Economy

PICO Session 2: Screen-3
Date- 05 March 2024; Time- 17.30 Onwards
Session Chair: Prof. Ashish Pandey (IITR) / Prof. ML Kansal, (IITR)
Session Co-Chair: Dr. Suhas Khobragade (NIH) / Er. Omkar Singh, (NIH)

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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Review Of Comprehensive Smart Metering Solution For Managing Water Grids
1 16
(Avik Bose*)
Mapping Of Groundwater Prospective Zone In Urbanizing Coastal Regions For
2 101 Sustainable Development
(Ananya Muduli*; Pallavi Chattopadhyay)
Novel Tempo Oxidised Polyvinyl Alcohol/ Cellulose Nanocrystal-Based
3 140 Nanocomposite Membrane For Malachite Green Dye Removal
(Rekha Goswami*; Abhilasha Mishra)
The Influence Of Groundwater In The Spatio Temporal Variation Of Ecosystem Water
4 149 Use Efficiency In India
(Akriti Singh*; Vijaykumar Bejagam; Ashutosh Sharma)
Irrigation Scheduling In Wheat Crop Using Wireless Sensor Network
5 190
(Yogesh Kumar Kushwaha, R.K. Panigrahi, Ashish Pandey )
Google Earth Engine-Based Ecosystem Water Productivity Mapping In India
6 211
(Shivani Parashar*; Ashutosh Sharma)
Feasibility Study Of Electricity Generation From Grey Water In High-Rise Buildings
7 221 Using Different Types Of Turbines.
(Gopika C Atul*; Gowtham Sivasubramaniam)
Program For Automation Of Bulk Water Supply
8 306
(Piyush Raj*, Mr. Rishabh Chandel)
Estimation Of The Water Footprint Of Agriculture Crops Using The Remote Sensing
Approach
9 314
(Ashishkumar K Koradia*; Basant Yadav; Ashish Pandey; V M Chowdary;
Chandrasekar K )
Integrated Approach For Water Resources Management In Khammam District,
10 340 Telangana, India
(Eswar Sai Buri*; Venkata Reddy Keesara; K N Loukika)
Estimation Of Crop Water Requirement And Irrigation Requirement For Sugarcane
Crop Planted In Different Season Using Cropwat Model For Pusa, Samastipur District
11 349
Bihar
(Hemant Kumar*; Ravish Chandra)
G- Filter: A Step Towards Achieving Circular Water Economy In India
12 33
(Meraj Ahmad*)
Urban Drainage & River Front Development Complexities In A Hilly Riverbank City –A
13 88 Case Study Of Paonta Sahib (India)
(Mitthan Lal Kansal*; Adyasha Jena)
Hydrolysed Product Of Acid Leached Laterite As Phosphate Adsorbent From Aqueous
14 263 Solution.
(Anil Kumar *)
Measuring Water Circularity In Indian Firms
15 273
(Shweta Dasgupta*; Amit Banerji; Varsha Rokade)
Sewage Sludge-Derived Engineered Biochar For Aqueous Phosphate Sorption
16 282
(Shivang Kapoor*; Tej Pratap; Anand Kumar Yadav; Dinesh Mohan)
Assessment Of Phosphorus And Potassium Availability During Irrigation Using Treated
17 307 Wastewater
(Ajit Kumar*; Basant Yadav)
Enhancing Anaerobic Treatment For Synthetic Dyes Decolourization Using Various
18 154 Attachment Materials
(Nagesh Vikram Singh*)

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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.

Rainfall-Runoff Modelling of West Rapti River Basin, Nepal

19 363
(Sagar Mishra*; N.K.Goel)

Urban Stormwater Management and Drainage Assessment: A Case Study of Churu,

Rajasthan
20 199
(Sudesh Singh Choudhary*; Sourabh Nema; Abhinav Kumar Bansal; Mahesh Kumar
Jat)

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PICO Session – 3 (6th March 2024, 16:30 – 17:30)

Theme: Extreme Events
PICO Session 3: Screen-1
Date- 06 March 2024; Time- 16:30 Onwards

Session Chair: Prof. N.K Goel (IITR)

Session Co-Chair: Dr. Anil K Lohani (NIH)

Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Assessing The Influence Of Climate Extremes On Vegetation And Streamflow In The
1 94 Wainganga Basin: Identifying Vulnerable Hotspots
(Chakkaralla Mahammad Rafi*; Vamsi Krishna Vema)
Analysis Of Indian Meteorological Ensemble Dataset (Imed) Performance For Cloudburst
2 119 Detection Over Northwest Himalayas (Nwh)
(Anagha P*; Manabendra Saharia)
Temporal Evolution Of Flood Patterns In West-Flowing Rivers
3 121
(Achala Singh*; Priyank J Sharma)
A Climatology of Cloudburst-Like Events in India
4 135
(Akash Singh Raghuvanshi*; Ankit Agarwal)
Understanding The Soil Water Dynamics During The Excess And Deficit Monsoon: The Role
5 165 Of Surface And Subsurface Soil Moisture
(Mangesh Mohanrao Goswami*)
A Statistical Assessment Of Compound Dry And Hot Extremes Using Copula Theory
6 193
(Ravikumar Guntu*; Ankit Prof Agarwal)
Analyzing Occurrences, Frequency And Patterns Of Extreme Floods In The Wainganga River
7 224 Basin
(Harshita R Ahirwar; Manish K Nema*; Anupam Nema)
Monitoring Meteorological And Hydrological Drought In Southern Odisha
8 226
(Samikshya Panda*; Vinod Tripathi; Vijay Shankar Yadav)
Spatiotemporal Characterization Of Meteorological Drought And Rainfall Variation During
9 227 El Nino/La Nina Event Over Bundelkhand Region Of India
(Vijay Shankar Yadav*)
Streamflow Forecasting Into A Large Indian Reservoir Using Standalone And Hybrid
10 237 Machine Learning Models
(Siddharth Chatterjee*; Amina Khatun)
Urban flood mapping of Bagjola region by using cloud computing techniques: Sentinel 1 & 2
11 240 data approach
(Aman Kumar*; Kumari Anjali; Renji Remesan)
Exploring The Patterns Of Drought Propagation From Meteorological To Agricultural
12 284 Drought In India
(Syed Bakhtawar Bilal*; Vivek Gupta)
Applicability Of Climate-Informed Flood Frequency Approach
13 293
(Abinesh Ganapathy*; Ankit Prof Agarwal)
Integrating Hydrometeorological Insights In An Urban Himalayan Watershed For A Smart
Flood Early Warning System Development
14 324
(Sudhanshu Dixit*; Sumit Sen; Tahmina Yasmin; Kieran Khamis; Wouter Buytaert; David M
Hannah)
Assessment of Groundwater Quality Using the Water Quality Index for drinking and
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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
(Nishtha Sharnagat*; Prabhash Kumar Mishra; Anupam Nema)
A conceptual, distributed, and iterative streamflow routing model for improving peak flow
prediction
16 252
(Ekant Sarkar*; Kesav Unnithan; Akshay P Kadu; Basudev Biswal; Christoph Rudiger;
Subashisa Dutta)
Analyzing Cadmium (Cd) Transport during Agricultural Based Managed Aquifer Recharge:
17 315 Laboratory scale study
(Himanshu Rawat*; Kartik Dhanjibhai Jadav; Basant Yadav)

Design Flood Estimation For Sukta Dam Using Alternative Approaches And Eap Preparation
18 357
(Akshay Lakherwal*; N.K. Goel)

Design Flood Review and Emergency Action Plan for Gundlakamma Reservoir
19 358
(Naga Venkata Apparao Ayyappa Velaga*; N.K. Goel)
Surface runoff response to long-term land use changes in flood generating area
20 365
(Tuhin Mukherjee*, Dhyan S. Arya and N K. Goel)

Theme: Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies

PICO Session 3: Screen-2
Date- 06 March 2024; Time- 16:30 – 17:30

Session Chair: Prof. CSP Ojha (IITR)

Session Co-Chair: Dr. Surjeet Singh (NIH)

S. No. Abstract Id. Topic (Authors)

The Impact Of Cloud Cover On Crop Water Stress Index In A Semi-Arid Region Of U.P
1 56
(Aditi Yadav*; Hitesh Upreti; Gopal Das Singhal)
Trend Analysis Of Climatic Historical Data And Future Scenarios Of Climate Extreme
Indices Over The Jabalpur District Of Madhya Pradesh
2 77
(Pankaj Kumar Thakur*; Dheeraj Mohan Gururani; Abhishek Agrawal Agrawal;
Pushpanjali Kumari; Snehil Dubey)
Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions From On-Site Sanitation
Technologies In Nepal Using Refined Intergovernmental Policy On Climate
3 80 Change Guidelines
(Prativa Poudel; Anish Dr Ghimire*;
Sarana Tuladhar; Subodh Sharma; Guy Howard; Olivia Reddy; Manish Baidya)
Long-Term Variations In Climatic Parameters For Kerala
4 150
(Gunaseelan Krishnan*)
Impact Of Climate Change On Dependence Between Precipitation And Temperature In
5 161 India
(Anjali Chaudhary*, Ankit Agarwal)
Groundwater Variability Due To Decreasing Rainfall In The Six Districts Of Eastern Uttar
6 164 Pradesh Between River Ghaghara And River Ganga
(Vinay Arya*; Someshwar Rao)
Testing Of Advanced Machine Learning For Flood Forecasting: A Case Study Of The Gumti
7 214 Basin In Tripura, India
(Uttam Kumar Bera*; Dhruv Kumar; Saptadeep Biswas)

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S. No. Abstract Id. Topic (Authors)

Short And Long Term Effects Of Treated Waste Water On Soil Physical And Hydraulic
8 250 Properties
(Satendra Kumar*)
Geospatial Analysis Of Impact Assessment Of The Increasing Water Vapor Due To Paddy
9 272 Cultivation On Climate In Punjab.
(Mandeep Singh*; Lakhwinder Singh)
Assessment Of Climatic Variables For The Mahi River Basin In Western India
10 278
(Ankit Patel*)
Adaptation Of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems For Urban Flood Mitigation: Current
11 296 Trends, Issues, And Challenges
(Mohammed Junaid N*; Abhijeet Bendre)
Long-Term Ch4 And N2o Emissions From Livestock Enteric Fermentation (Efm) And
12 327 Manure Management (Mm)
(Fida Mohammad Sahil*; Idhaya Chandhiran Ilampooranana)
Understanding The Impact Of Climate Change And Human-Induced Storage Change On
13 333 Budyko Framework Using A Synthetic Closed-Loop Environment
(Balaram Shaw*; Pushkar Sharma; Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma)
Impact Of Climate Change On Bridge Scour: A Review
14 346
(Farooque Rahman*; Rutuja Chavan)
Role of Enso on Compound Drought and Heatwaves in Indian Sub-Continent
15 355
(Sandeep Kumar*, Ankit Agarwal)
Streamflow variability and its linkage to ENSO events in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal
16 362
(Binod Parajuli*; Sumit Sen)
Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Onsite Sanitation in Nepal using Modified
Static Flux Chamber: An Innovative Approach
17 79
(Sarana Tuladhar*; Prativa Poudel; Anish Dr Ghimire; Subodh Sharma; Guy Howard;
Olivia Reddy; Barbara Evans; Miller A. Camargo-Valero; Manish Baidya)
Identification of potential groundwater zones in the high Himalaya Mountains
18 238 (Chasalin Cobb; Kirsten N Nicholson*; Joshua Gruver; Klaus Neumann; Subodh
Sharma)

Theme: Water Governance and Education, And Rejuvenation Of

Natural Water Systems
PICO Session 3: Screen-3
Date- 06 March 2024; Time- 16:30 – 17:30
Session Chair: Prof. Manoj Jain (IITR) / Prof. Sumit Sen (IITR)
Session Co-Chair: Dr. Anupama Sharma (NIH) / Dr. RP Pandey (NIH)

Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Towards Sustainable Water Resources Management In India: An Integrated Framework
1 43 For Asset Management And Governance
(Harshal K Tikam*; Abhiram Shukla)
Ecosystem Service Potential Zones With Special Emphasis On Water Quality And Lulc
2 104 On A Costal Ramsar Lake, South West Coastal India
(Vishnu Sagar*; Sabu Joseph; Andrea Ghermandi)
Sustainability Of Irrigation Practices And Water Pricing Tools In Water-Stressed
3 170 Tropical Countries: A Way Forward For Sustainable Water Governance
(J Tryphena Magdalene*; Carolin Arul, Melba Respina B)

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Abstract
S. No. Topic (Authors)
Id.
Strategic Approaches And Management Lessons From The Field For De-Silting
4 286 Of Tanks With Community Participation Brings Water Back To Communities.
(Pintu Kumar Gupta*)
Conceptualising The Flow: Mapping The Policies And Practices Within Rajasthan's
5 294 Water Governance
(Ruchika Sharma*; Sailaja Nandigama)
Water Governance In Remote Mountain Areas-Promoting Circular Economy
6 304
(Steven Hall; Kirsten N Nicholson*; Misa Nishikawa; Subodh Sharma)
Revival And Rejuvenation Of Transformed Lentic And Lotic Ecosystems
7 17
(Priyanka Varma*; Paulami Sahu)
Rejuvenation Of Natural Water Systems
8 58
(Shreya Singh*)
Assessment Of Ecosystem Services And Their Deficits In Ncr Delhi
9 210
(Supriya Thokchom*; Ashutosh Sharma)
Human Resource Mobilization For Water Conservation - A Case Study Of District
10 212 Administration Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
(Kamini Sharma*; Rhythm Singh; Rajesh Kumar Shastri)
Innovative Strategies For Sustainable Sediment Management: A Review On Bridge Pier
11 253 Scour Reduction
(Suniti Kumari*; H.L. Tiwari; Rutuja Chavan)
Characterization Of Springs Of Bhilangana Block, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand State Of
12 285 India For The Development Of Rejuvenation Strategy
(Ayush Kukreti; Soban Singh Rawat*; Ds Malik)
Community Perception Based Method For Determination Of Environmental Flow
13 342 Requirements – A Case Of Bargi Dam, Jabalpur District, Madhya Pradesh
(Govind M.P*; Rama Umesh Pandey; Pradeep Kumar)
Addressing Inflow And Infiltration Challenges In Urban Drainage Systems: A
14 292
Methodology For Improved Management (Blessing Isaiah*)
Effect Of Water Conservation Measures On Cropping Intensity And Groundwater Status
15 105 In Drought-Affected District Of Bundelkhand
(Dheeraj Kumar Gupta*)
Water Law, Policy and Governance with special reference to Urban Floods
16 352
(Avdhesh Pratap; Narendra Kumar Yadav*)
Biochar from sugarcane bagasse and red mud for adsorption of selenium from
17 354
(Pratistha Rai, Sonal K. Thengane)
Ground-Water Pollution in India: Unravelling Issues and Governance
18 185 Challenges
(Taniya Malik)
Probable Maximum Flood Estimation and Emergency Action Plan for
19 360 Massanjore Dam on Mayurakshi River in Jharkhand, India
(Avtar Singh; N.K. Goel)
Water Resource Assessment in a Complex River Basin: A Case Study of
the Mahi River Basin using Water Accounting Plus (WA+)
20 124
(Pooja Patle*; Ashutosh Sharma)

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Annexure-I
Special session – I
Title: Introduction to UAV Imagery Processing for Water Management in Agriculture
Session Organizers: Dr. Siddhartha Khare, Assistant Professor, Geomatics Engineering group of
Civil Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee.

The goal of this workshop is to introduce participants to the principles and procedures
involved in using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)/drones for remote sensing projects
related to agricultural water management. The course will cover the fundamentals of UAV
flying and assembly, sensor understanding and application, mosaicking and orthorectification
of UAV images, and vegetation index computation. Example case studies for various sorts of
agricultural areas will be shown.

Special session – II
Title: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) HELPING Decade:
Science for Solutions
Session Organizers: Archana Sarkar, Berit Arheimer, Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema, Ankit Agarwal,
Jew Das

The increasing demand for water due to population growth and globalization, coupled with
the impact of climate change, has made water security a global issue that affects the economic,
social, and environmental sustainability of many regions and communities. In order to ensure
safe water supply for human and environment, and protecting them from water hazards in the
present circumstances, hydrological knowledge is needed more than ever. However, scientific
knowledge on resilience and water security is fragmented in discipline, people, and place.
There is a substantial lack of synthesis and easily digestible scientific messages among
hydrologists, across disciplines and from scientists to practitioners, decision-makers and the
general public. Hence, there is a need for the hydrological research community to take the lead
and better link local hydrological research with global patterns of the water cycle, and further,
to provide science-based water-centric decision support for local sustainable water
management.
Therefore, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) is dedicating the next
scientific decade to science for solutions. The short name is HELPING, and stands for
Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world. It aims to identify local water problems
in holistic/system analyses, search for solutions, be bold and push boundaries to make an
impact. The vision is to solve fundamental water-related environmental and societal problems
by engaging with other disciplines and local stakeholders.
This special session will focus on the three major themes of HELPING, which all aim to
understand hydrological diversity and integrate knowledge across scales and regions to
achieve sustainable water management in coherence with the local context.

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S.No. Speaker Topic

Key Talks

Dr Archana Sarkar, Vice-

1 President, IAHS NIH Roorkee, International Association of Hydrological Sciences
India (IAHS) – History, Structure, Working, Initiatives,
Opportunities

Berit Arheimer President,

2 IAHS, SMHI, Sweden Setting up the new Scientific Decade of IAHS:
Science for Solutions with HELPING

Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema

3 Secretary General, IAHS North Capacity development and knowledge
West University South Africa management for water resources in East and
Southern Africa: Insights for the HELPING decade.

Eduardo Mario Mendiondo Co-

4 Editor, DWG (IAHS) University On Promoting Community Adaptation in the
of Sao Paulo, Brazil HELPING Science Decade by Populating the
Digital Water Globe

Pankaj Ramji Dhote Secretary,

5 ICRS (IAHS) IIRS Dehradun, Leveraging Satellite Observations for River Flow
India Monitoring: Exploring Opportunities and
Challenges

6 Stefan Krause WATER & HEALTH - Integrated water pollution

solutions to tackle the water and health nexus
Vice-President ICWQ (IAHS)
University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, UK

7 Ankit Agarwal Helping Decade: Decomposing Complexity (WG

1.2)
Member, WG UPH (IAHS)

IIT Roorkee, India

Flash Presentations

8 Vijaykumar S. Microplastics in Aquatic Environment: Known

and Unknown

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National Institute of
Technology, Andhra Pradesh,
India

9 Dr. Adarsh S Deciphering the Shape Parameter Dynamics in

the Non-stationery Flood-frequency Analysis
TKM College of Engineering
Kollam Kerala, India

10 Kola Veera Venkata Bhavani Development of sensor based water quality

Sivannarayana prediction model using machine learning

IIT Roorkee, India algorithms

11 Koradia Ashishkumar K Estimation of the Water Footprint of Agriculture

IIT Roorkee, India Crops using the Remote Sensing Approach

Special session –III

Title: Riverbank filtration, constructed wetlands and coupled engineered solutions for
water management
Organizers: Dr. Gopal Krishan, Prof. Thomas Grischek and Dr. Cornelius Sandhu
Bank filtration/ riverbank filtration (BF/RBF) is an element of managed aquifer recharge
(MAR) and has been used by riverside communities for many decades as a natural water
treatment process and forms part of a multi-barrier approach to drinking water supply at
numerous site. India has the highest MAR capacity worldwide. And more than two decades of
research and development has evidenced a large potential for RBF in India. Moreover, the
treatment of raw water and wastewater are intertwined and consequently engineered natural
treatment systems including constructed wetlands (CW) will continue to dominate the
platform of favored technologies for treatment and recycling of wastewater in warmer
climates such as in India.
The special session will highlight the purification capacity of RBF and CW at sites influenced
by different environmental conditions that were developed from 2020–2024 across India;
present the state of science on RBF and new concepts for CW for decentralized wastewater
treatment and mitigation of diffuse pollution in India; demonstrate innovative, stand-alone
and off-grid disinfection technologies for decentralized/rural water supply schemes in India
and other parts of the world; present the application and development of new water-demand
prediction and management tools; and offer a platform for an open discussion on the future
direction of worldwide R&D on RBF and CW in India.
The special session is organized by National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee, Hydrological
Investigations Division, and University of Applied Sciences Dresden (HTW Dresden,
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German Competence Centre for Riverbank Filtration” with contributions from the Indian and
German partners of the CCRBF project. CCRBF is supported by the German Federal Ministry
of Education and Research (BMBF) within its program “CONNECT – Education, Research,
Innovation”.
Program

Time Topic (presenting authors in bold)

Assi river development integrated concept for revitalising urban spaces and water bodies
14:30
in Varanasi – J. Nowak, H. Rustige & L. Hartfiel
Constructed wetland as a sustainable solution for domestic sewage treatment in Varanasi
14:45
– S. Anand, G. Singh, L. Hartfiel, H. Rustigue, J. Nowak & V.K. Mishra
Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in India: Insights from recent
14:55 developments
– B.K. Karki, M.K. Ravichandran & L. Philip
15:10 The future of RBF for safe water supply – T. Grischek, C. Sandhu & G. Krishan
Potential of RBF at selected sites in northern Indo-Gangetic basin – G. Krishan, C. Sandhu,
15:25
T. Grischek & H. Börnick
15:40 Experiences from RBF investigations in North East India – M. Ronghang & F. Rahman

Application of automation for residual disinfection for drinking water supply through
onsite chlorine generation in rural regions – P. Otter, D. Röhrer, A. Goldmaier, M.
15:50
Ronghang,
F. Rahman, C. Sandhu & T. Grischek
16:00 Tea Break & Exhibition talk
Managed aquifer recharge / RBF for mitigation of seawater intrusion in Chennai, South
16:30 India –
C. Lakshmi Narasimhan & L. Elango
RBF potential to meet irrigation demand in Goa, India – K. Patil, T. Boving, S. Manjare,
16:45
T. Grischek, D. Joshi, C. Sandhu, H. Bornick, R. Vhaval
17:00 Attenuation of organic micropollutants during RBF in India – H. Börnick
RBFsim – A tool for an early planning stage of riverbank filtration systems – P. Yadav &
17:10
T. Grischek
Smart water applications of drinking water quality and quantity assessment – M. Wagner
17:20 &
M. Lohmann
17:30 End

Organizers, partners and funding

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This special session is a collaborative activity of the above organisations in the project CCRBF “Expansion of the
Indo-German Competence Centre for Riverbank Filtration” that is funded by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research within the CONNECT programme
(BMBF grant no. 01DU20003).

Special session – IV
Title: Water Resilience at Local Level Specific context to Mountains
Session Organizers: National Institute of Disaster Management

Shri Rajendra Ratnoo IAS, ED, NIDM

Prof Surinder Kumar Mehta, VC , University of Ladakh
Prof Anil K Gupta, Head, ECDRM, NIDM
Dr Ranjan K Panda, Water Initiatives & Co-founder
In the face of escalating climate change impacts, ensuring water resilience at the local level is
paramount, especially in mountainous regions that are particularly vulnerable to
environmental shifts. This session aims to delve into the specific challenges and opportunities
associated with water resilience in mountainous contexts. The session will bring together
experts, practitioners, and community representatives to exchange knowledge, share best
practices, and develop strategies tailored to the unique needs of mountain communities.
Key Objectives:
Understanding Local Dynamics
Community Engagement
Technological Solutions
Policy and Governance

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Capacity Building
By the end of the session, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the
intricate water resilience dynamics specific to mountainous contexts. The knowledge
exchanged and collaborations formed during the event will contribute to the development of
actionable strategies, ensuring sustainable water management practices and fostering
resilience in the face of evolving environmental conditions.

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Sponsors and Exhibitors

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