India Water Foundation Annual Report 2015-16

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India Water Foundation Annual Report 2015-16

During 2015-2016, the activities conducted by India Water Foundation (IWF) were greatly influenced by momentous international developments like adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 and the conclusion of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in December 2015 along with other developments in water and environment sectors and partially by domestic developments in the wake of new initiatives undertaken by the Government of India during the period under review.

The major activities conducted by IWF during the period under review pertained to imparting training programme in Geo-morphological mapping for water prospection in 12 states, IWF presentation at World Water Week organized by SIWI at Stockholm, publication of the report entitled

SAARC Outlook for water-energy-food nexus approach in South Asia, in collaboration with SAARC Agriculture Centre based in Bangladesh, and expression of interest in Inland Waterways etc.

The international developments, inter alia, included: World Water Day 2015 along with the release of 2015 World Water Development Report (WWDR) with its theme on Water and Sustainable Development, adoption of the SDGS and conclusion of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Interestingly, we at IWF have already been emphasizing on some of these themes of the SDGs and Climate Change agreement for past couple of years and we are committed to accord priority to these themes.

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