Expert Lecture on “Urgent Need for Improved Water Governance” organised by Department of Civil Engineering, CBIT in association with Chaitanya Parivrita Club on the eve of “World Water Day 2023”

    On the occasion of World Water Day 2023, Department of Civil Engineering, CBIT organized an expert lecture in association with Chaitanya Parivrita Club on “Urgent Need for Improved Water Governance” on 23rd March 2023. The talk was given by the expert Dr. P Ramaraju, emeritus professor and Retired Engineer-in-Chief. Dr. K. Jagannadha Rao, Professor & Head welcomed the participants, briefed about the importance of the World Water Day. The overall program was held under the guidance of Prof. P. Ravinder Reddy, Principal.

 The expert speaker Dr. P Ramaraju explained about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. 

Dysfunction throughout the water cycle undermines progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace and accelerates functions to avoid crisis.

The expert portrayed the fact that water is very precious and 97 percent of water is in the oceans which are salty and cannot be used for drinking purpose, the remaining 2.5 percent that is freshwater, most is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. As a result, only less than 1 percent of the Earth’s water is available for drinking. Moreover, the Earth’s water supply is fixed. This is why it is important to conserve and sustainably use it for the health of human society, life support systems and maintaining ecosystem services of the planet earth. The expert also drew the attention on the river water and water crisis in India specifically for Telangana due to El Nino year. Sustainable water resources management seeks to harness the benefits of water by ensuring there is sufficient water of adequate quality for drinking water and sanitation services, food production, energy generation, inland water transport, and water-based recreational, as well as sustaining healthy water-dependent ecosystem. 10 nos. of teaching and non-teaching staffs and 120 nos. of students from CBIT attended this expert lecture. Student Co-ordinator Oggu Akshitha Priya gave the Vote of thanks and at the end of the lecture Chaitanya Parivrita Club Faculty in-charge E. Maheshwar Reddy, Assistant Professor, CED thanked to the expert and all faculty, staff and students for their valuable presence on the occasion of World Water Day.