Chennai:
A water technology delegation from United States is on a
fact-finding mission to study the potential of water sector in the state and to
have partnerships with the industry.
At a session organized by Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) southern region along with consulate of United States here on
Monday, Hugh Constant, executive vice-president of World Trade Center, San
Diego told business representatives that the delegation is looking for
partnerships to develop local water infrastructure.
The US delegation highlighted various innovative water
technologies to manage water supply and said they are on a fact-finding mission
to understand Indian market and an opportunity to partner with the right
company.
Speaking on the occasion, Sudeep Sangameswaran
member, CII-southern region and executive director
Pentair Clean Process Technologies India highlighted that
the per capita availability of fresh water in the country has dropped from
5,177 cubic metres in 1951 to 1,869 cubic metres in 2001.
“It will further decline to 1,341 cubic metre by 2025.
This is alarming as the threshold per capita value of water stress is 1,000
cubic metres. The available water resources would be inadequate to meet the
future water needs of the sector,” he added.
Stressing on the need to improve water management practices,
he said there is a need to provide a single point reference to address water
related issues especially for the industry and domestic users and the visit of
the water technology delegation from US gains importance.
Mrinal Singh of Nobel Systems, a privately held US corporation
that specializes in GIS data conversion, highlighted how water network could be
digitally mapped and monitored from any part of the world by hosting the data
on a cloud server.
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