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NITK to conduct 3-day workshop on coastal reservoirs as sustainable strategy

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nitk innerMangaluru: The Department of Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics in National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Suratkal is organising a three-day workshop on ‘Coastal Reservoirs as a sustainable strategy for water security’ under Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) at the M S Seminar Hall, Applied Mechanical Department from July 22.

The programme coordinator Dr. H Ramesh told reporters here on Saturday, July 20 that the Director of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati Prof. T G Seetharam will inaugurate the workshop and NITK Director Prof. K Umamaheshwar Rao will preside over the programme. Associate professors in University of Wollongong, Australia Shu-Qing Yang and M Sivakumar will be the resource persons in the programme who would shed light on how coastal reservoirs can be used for drinking water needs of the coastal district, he informed.

Both resource persons M Sivakumar and Shu-Qing Yang were present at the press conference and said that the coastal reservoirs would definitely address the problems of drinking water needs of the people. Sivakumar said, “The concept of coastal reservoirs (CRs) may be new to most of us but it can be defined simply as ‘a technology to store freshwater in a coastal environment before it enters the sea.’ Coastal reservoirs require a multi-disciplinary site specific research in the areas of river flow and water quality processes, geotechnical considerations, wave hydrodynamics, groundwater-seawater interaction. Research experts in some of these areas will be able to provide greater insights during the this three days’ workshop.”

Another resource person Prof. Shu-Qing Yang informed that setting up of coastal reservoirs would work out cheaper than the setting up of a desalination plant. “Though there might be some sort of impact on marine life, it would be a good solution to the drinking water problem. As coastal reservoirs would be set up without disturbing the natural flow of water, it would not damage the ecological system,” he informed.

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