India-UK Water Centre

The aim of the India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) is to promote cooperation and collaboration between NERC-MoES water security research in order to establish a platform for, and legacy of, long-term partnerships and dialogue between Indian and UK water researchers, water policy-makers and water businesses.

IUKWC News

IUKWC GFES 3: Water Resource Management & Supply in Central India

Theme: Building cross-sectoral collaborations to understand the dynamic interactions across the water-energy-food nexus
Venue: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Dates: GFES will run from 25^th February – 27^th February 2019

IUKWC UEI 2: Water Resource Management & Supply in Central India

Theme: Building cross-sectoral collaborations to understand the dynamic interactions across the water-energy-food nexus

Venue: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Dates: UEI will run from 28^th February - 2^nd March 2019

West Bengal events promote the use of grassroots knowledge in future Indo–UK water research

The India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) launched its first set of Grassroots Field Exposure Sessions in West Bengal on 10^th December 2018 to understand the pressures on the water resource in some of the state’s rural and urban environments. The two events were spread over six days and involved visits to North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Kolkata Municipal areas. The joint Indian and UK scientific teams spent time in Gosaba and Sandeshkhali blocks and at various sites in and around Kolkata including the Ganga Ghat, local industrial water users and East Kolkata Wetlands.

OPEN CALL for Delegates to attend the 2019 IUKWC Workshops

The India-UK Water Centre is convening two workshops in 2019, and is inviting applications from the diverse water sciences, engineering, management, innovation and development sectors based in India and the UK to attend.

The first workshop on ‘Science and Innovation for Catchment Management’ will be held over three days at the University of Warwick, UK from 8^th – 10^th May 2019.

CALL NOW CLOSED

The second workshop on ‘Safe and Sustainable Technologies and Strategies for Integrated Freshwater Resource Management’ will be held over four days at the JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, India from 25^th to 28^th June, 2019.

Deadline for submission of application webform : 24^th January 2019;

For more information and to apply for the workshop, please click here

Community News

Postdoc and PhD researcher positions available at University of Manchester

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Agricultural Climate Risk :

The Deadline for applications is 7 February 2019. Applications can be made using the following link or via email: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=16598.