Workshop engages students to solve water crisis

College and university students brainstormed at a unique workshop here Tuesday to come up with ideas and practical solutions to manage water resources intelligently and solve the water crisis.

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and TERI University organized an inter-university competition and workshop on water resource management at the Loreto College, Kolkata, with 50 students participating.

The workshop in Kolkata is the first in a series of pan-Indian consultative workshops to check students' level of awareness and personal comprehension about water bodies close to their places of residence or study, a statement attributed to TERI said.

These programmes aim to create awareness on water and sanitation challenges, to encourage a systemic, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding and solving water and sanitation problems and most importantly, to engage academia and students to help local communities, governments and other stakeholders.

"The competition has tried to engage undergraduate students across India to ideate pragmatic and implementable integrated water resources management proposals to solve the water crisis in India," said Ragini Kumar, Associate Fellow, Environmental Education and Awareness, TERI.