CHENNAI STUDENTS WIN AWARD AT WATER WEEK COMPETITION
Chennai students, who participated in World Water Week at Stockholm recently
The World Water Week that was held in Stockholm in August 2011 saw six Chennaiites participate, all researchers from the Centre for Water Resources (CWR) at Anna University. Added to this, the team walked away with the ‘Best Poster Award' that was given to Aishwarya Elangovan, a postgraduate student at the centre. “People from all over the world submit abstracts of their research papers and details about the posters to be eligible to participate in this competition,” says Prakash Nelliyat, research coordinator, CWR. Mr. Nelliyat submitted an abstract of a paper which he refers to as an “umbrella paper” encompassing all of the activities that is taught under the centre's flagship course the ‘Integrated Water Resources Management'.
His colleague, and assistant professor, Saravanan Ramasamy, says the overwhelming selection from the centre was due to the theme of this year's World Water Week — Water in an Urbanising World — which is also the focus of the IWRM course.. “We noticed that they were not selecting purely technical papers but those which were interdisciplinary. For a successful water policy, it is important to have an interdisciplinary approach,” he says. Fifty per cent of the case studies presented at the conference were in relation to India's water resources, he adds.
For Ph.D student Suriya Shankar, the conference was a way of sharing information. “It was a dual form of communication. We shared our expertise on primary data collection and we learnt a lot from the other participants,” she says. “Sociological tools were created through the projects and we learnt about actual problems affecting people. Many experts from all over the world shared their experiences,” said S. Packialakshmi, another student. Eighty posters were put up out of which five were shortlisted and of them two were from CWR. In 2002 and then in 2011, India won in the poster competition. “Whenever we presented papers, the delegates provided us technical and policy suggestions,” said Mr. Nelliyat.
Prof. John Kurakar
Chennai students, who participated in World Water Week at Stockholm recently
The World Water Week that was held in Stockholm in August 2011 saw six Chennaiites participate, all researchers from the Centre for Water Resources (CWR) at Anna University. Added to this, the team walked away with the ‘Best Poster Award' that was given to Aishwarya Elangovan, a postgraduate student at the centre. “People from all over the world submit abstracts of their research papers and details about the posters to be eligible to participate in this competition,” says Prakash Nelliyat, research coordinator, CWR. Mr. Nelliyat submitted an abstract of a paper which he refers to as an “umbrella paper” encompassing all of the activities that is taught under the centre's flagship course the ‘Integrated Water Resources Management'. His colleague, and assistant professor, Saravanan Ramasamy, says the overwhelming selection from the centre was due to the theme of this year's World Water Week — Water in an Urbanising World — which is also the focus of the IWRM course.. “We noticed that they were not selecting purely technical papers but those which were interdisciplinary. For a successful water policy, it is important to have an interdisciplinary approach,” he says. Fifty per cent of the case studies presented at the conference were in relation to India's water resources, he adds.
For Ph.D student Suriya Shankar, the conference was a way of sharing information. “It was a dual form of communication. We shared our expertise on primary data collection and we learnt a lot from the other participants,” she says. “Sociological tools were created through the projects and we learnt about actual problems affecting people. Many experts from all over the world shared their experiences,” said S. Packialakshmi, another student. Eighty posters were put up out of which five were shortlisted and of them two were from CWR. In 2002 and then in 2011, India won in the poster competition. “Whenever we presented papers, the delegates provided us technical and policy suggestions,” said Mr. Nelliyat.
Prof. John Kurakar
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