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21/03/22 18:38 PM IST

AquaMAP Water Management and Policy Centre

In News 
The new water management and policy centre, AquaMAP has been inaugurated by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, at IIT Madras, and its website https://aquamap.iitm.ac.in/ was also launched.

Details 

  • The aim of AquaMAP is to provide solutions regarding the challenges faced due to water problems by implementing smart water management practices.
  • The water management practices will also be implemented across various fields across the nation and they will be used as scalable models for innovative management technologies.
  • AquaMAP, a national water centre under which IIT Madras is collaborating with IIT Dharwad on the broad theme of ‘Data Science for Water Security and Agriculture Sustenance.’
Source- timesnow

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