To identify and evaluate the cost effective and innovative technologies in water and land management particularly suitable to developing countries in the context of Sustainable Development and growing environmental concerns.

To share the experience of the scientists, engineers, NGOs and policy makers throughout the globe in the field of water and land management with a focus on improving water productivity in the agriculture.

To provide a platform to people from industry to exhibit their hardware and software products in the water, watershed management and river basin technologies.

SUB-THEMES

   Global Water Resources Assessment.

   Effect of Climate change on Water and Environment.

   Water Scarcity.

   Multipurpose Reservoir Projects and Environmental Impact Assessment.

   Reservoir Sedimentation and Catchment Treatment.

   Water Logging, Salinization and Conjunctive Utilisation of Water Resources.

   Participatory Irrigation Management.

   Groundwater Exploration and Exploitation.

   Geochemical and Isotope Hydrology.

   Artificial Recharge of Ground Water - its Management and Modelling.

   Water Productivity in the Agriculture.

   Watershed Management - Hydrological Models.

   Watershed Management - Socio- Economic and Cultural Models.

   River Basin Management

   Soil and Water Conservation Technologies.

   Water Quality, Water Pollution and Environment

   Water and Waste Water Treatment Technologies.

   Microbiological Pollution and Remediation.

   Rainwater Harvesting and Drinking Water Supplies.

   Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Water Resources.

   Hydrologic Parameter Estimation and Modelling.

   Inter- basin Transfers and Resolving Conflicts.

   Legislation in Water Use.

   Institutional Linkages.

   Urban Hydrology.

   Forest Hydrology.

   Cloud Seeding.

   Soil Water Management.

   Integrated Water Resources Management.

   Hydrology of Coasts, Estuaries and their Environment.

   Sea Water Intrusion.

   Hydropower Development & Environmental Issues.

   R & R Problems in River Valley Projects.