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Access to safe water is one of the essential elements for sustainable development and poverty reduction. However, the past few decades has seen an increase in demand amongst various water using sectors putting enormous stress on the natural resource.
FICCI constituted a ‘Water Mission’ in 2011, to promote and provide thought leadership in the area of water efficiency.
FICCI constituted a ‘Water Mission’ in 2011, to promote and provide thought leadership in the area of water efficiency. It aims to facilitate the sharing and dissemination of best practices across industry sectors in order to encourage corporate and industry players to imbibe a culture of water conservation within their organizations. The mission has also instituted the annual Water Awards since 2011 to recognize exemplary contribution to water use efficiency by various stakeholders and further extended it to a full-fledged Conference titled ‘India Industry Water Conclave and Awards’ since 2015. The Mission focuses on industrial water use efficiency, PPP in urban wastewater and corporate water stewardship.
The Mission is working to create awareness on the existing situation pertaining to water scarcity, quality and generate a discourse on sustainable use of water amongst various users. With growing and extensive depletion and pollution of our water resources, our current work is being restructured to bring this issue back in focus to provide a sense of urgency to the debate of water management.
The objectives of the Mission's work are:
To advocate policy direction towards sustainable water management
To document and disseminate best practices on water conservation, management, reuse and recycling across various sectors and create a forum to facilitate exchange of information and experiences in the country
To promote through leadership and policy advocacy on sustainable water management including market for wastewater
Team Leader
Hemant Seth
Senior DirectorTimeline
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9th Edition of India Industry Water Conclave and 11th Edition of FICCI Water Awards 2023
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Immense investment and CSR related opportunities for industry to improve India’s water security: Secretary, Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Jal Shakti Ministry
Jan
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Water Management and Governance Need Focus: G Asok Kumar, Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga
Nov
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Reuse of untreated water vital to meet urbanization, untreated water has damaging effect on natural water resources: Dr Suman Bery, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog
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8th Edition of India Industry Water Conclave and 10th Edition of FICCI Water Awards 2022
Jul
Press Release
India is at the cusp of transformative change with a huge opportunity to transform rural India into model villages: Secretary, Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation
Apr
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Functional tap connection to every household by 2024: Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti
Mar
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Multi stakeholder approach of water management to make India water secure: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of Jal Shakti
Nov
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PPPs crucial for investment and technology efficiency for waste management in India: Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Petroleum Minister
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Govt targeting 6000 water testing laboratories by 2022: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Jal Shakti Minister
May
Event
Master Class on Biodiversity Regulations & Management Series II
Mar
Feb
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India's wastewater treatment plants market likely to reach $ 4.3 billion by 2025: Amitabh Kant
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Urgent need to address issues of demand side management of water: Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti
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Compendium of Best Practices: Recognizing Excellence in Water Management & Conservation
Oct
Sep
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Interactive Session with Shri Upendra Prasad Singh Secretary, Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Drinking Water & Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti
Jul
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Saving Water is key to Overcome India's Water Crisis: Addl Secretary & Mission Director, National Water Mission
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Saving Water is key to Overcome India's Water Crisis: Addl Secretary & Mission Director, National Water Mission
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Govt's 'Catch The Rain' project to help in reducing urban flooding - Addl Secretary & Mission Director, National Water Mission
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Rainwater harvesting is key to solving India's water woes: Addl Secretary & Mission Director, National Water Mission
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Rainwater harvesting is key to solving India's water woes: Addl Secretary & Mission Director, National Water Mission
Jun
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Virtual Water Technology Showcase on Industrial and Municipal Wastewater Treatment Technologies Under the aegis of FICCI Water Mission
Jan
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Govt to focus on demand side of water management: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
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Recognizing Excellence in Water Management & Conservation: Compendium of Best Practices
Dec
Event
Water and Development Congress & Exhibition
Jul
Event
Call for Nomination: 7th Edition of FICCI Water Awards 2019
Nov
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Focus on incentivising water use efficiency: Water Resources Secretary
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Recognizing Excellence in Water Management & Conservation - Compendium of Best Practices
Jul
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Call for Applications: 6th Edition of FICCI Water Awards 2018
Mar
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Schemes under way to supply piped water to farm lands: Nitin Gadkari
Nov
Study
Compendium of Best Practices: Recognizing excellence in water management and conservation
May
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS- Fifth Edition of FICCI Water Awards-Application Deadline: May 20, 2017
Dec
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Demand side management and participatory approach should be a priority for sustainable water management: Secy, Water Resources
Study
Compendium of Best Practices: Recognising excellence in water management and conservation
Oct
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Call for Nominations Fourth Edition of FICCI Water Awards
Apr
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White Paper advocates to focus on improvement in the quality of sewerage services in the country through Public-PrivatePartnerships
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Seminar on 'Model for Efficient Water Management at Local Level in Urban / Peri-Urban Areas'
Sep
Aug
Jan
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Call for Application - 3rd edition of FICCI Water Awards
Oct
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Survey
Water Action Hub Survey
Jan
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FICCI Survey on Water Use in Industry
Sep
Survey
Water Use in India Industry Survey
Mar
Jun
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Four-Day Residential Workshop on 'Rainwater Harvesting and Water Audit'
Jul
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Four-Day Residential Workshop on 'Rainwater Harvesting & Water Audit'
