New Delhi: IIT Delhi collaborates with Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to address water security challenges in Delhi. As per this partnership, both organizations will work together on specified research and development initiatives in the areas of water supply and distribution, wastewater transportation, treatment, recycling, reuse, and disposal.
To attain the aim of zero waste discharge into drains and the river Yamuna, IIT Delhi and Delhi Jal Board will strive to create policy and best practice initiatives for wastewater treatment and reuse recycling.
In a statement, IIT Delhi said, “IIT Delhi, DJB will work together to build shared knowledge platforms and to disseminate data and information products to improve understanding of water and wastewater management alternatives for NCT of Delhi. They will also collaborate to jointly develop the Smart Operation and Management framework for DJB’s water and wastewater infrastructure”.
जल एक प्राकृतिक अमूल्य संपत्ति है।बिना जल के जीवन असंभव है। जल को व्यर्थ गंवाना जीवन को संकट मे डाल सकता है। क्योंकि पृथ्वी पर उपलब्ध पानी में से केवल 1% पानी ही हमारे लिये उपयोगी है इसलिए जल को बचाना है जरूरी, तभी होगी जल संकट से दूरी। #waterconservation #savewater pic.twitter.com/WvRujMOHDW
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"The Memorandum of Understanding seeks to foster a collaborative partnership between IIT Delhi and Delhi Jal Board, Government of NCT of Delhi, based on shared interests in the area of Water and Wastewater Management and Policy Infrastructure within the overarching domain of Water Security and its Sustainability under present and future climate scenarios," said Udit Prakash Rai, CEO, DJB.
Dhanya CT, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, said, "This MoU will provide a platform to facilitate collaboration between IIT Delhi and DJB in joint studies, research, training and data sharing in problems of common interest such as Operation and Management, Policy and Planning of Water and Wastewater Infrastructure."
The MoU between IIT Delhi and the DJB is mutually beneficial and serves as an indicator of sustained interest in cooperating to utilise the results of the partnership sponsored by the UKRI to address the water security concerns that NCT Delhi faces.
Recently, IIT Delhi’s Innovation Hub joined hands with NSF, USA for research and development in Cobotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).
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