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Theme: Innovations and Best Practices for Inclusive, Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Water, Sanitation and Waste Management
About NWC 2027
The National WASH Conference 2027 will provide a multidisciplinary platform for exchanging research, field experiences, policy insights and innovative solutions in water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management, climate resilience, and WASH-based technologies. Aligned with JJM, SBM(G) and SDG 6, the conference will bring together policymakers, researchers, practitioners, development partners and community institutions to advance sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient WASH services, with a focus on water security, safe sanitation, resource recovery, community participation and sustainable financing.
SPM NIWAS invites original, unpublished research papers, review papers, field-based case studies, policy analyses and innovation notes addressing the conference themes.
Thematic Areas
1. Source Sustainability, Water Security and Integrated Water Resources Management
2. Rural Drinking Water Infrastructure and Sustainable Service Delivery
3. Water Quality Monitoring, Surveillance and Treatment Technologies
4. Emerging Contaminants / Pollutants and Environmental Health
5. Water Governance, Institutional Strengthening and Accountability
6. Social Inclusion, Gender Equality and Community-Led WASH
7. Hygiene, Behaviour Change and Institutional WASH
8. Greywater Management and Safe Reuse
9. Liquid Waste and Decentralised Wastewater Management
10. Sustainable Sanitation, ODF Sustainability and ODF Plus
11. Faecal Sludge and Septage Management
12. Solid Waste Management and Rural Resource Recovery
13. Plastic Waste, Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Streams
14. Circular Economy, Waste-to-Wealth and Sanitation Value Chains
15. Nature-Based Solutions, Ecosystems and Waterbody Restoration
16. Climate-Resilient, disaster management and Low-Carbon WASH
17. Climate Finance, WASH Financing and Economic Sustainability
18. Digital WASH, Data Systems and Innovation
Modes of Presentation
Oral Presentations
Selected submissions will be invited for oral presentation in thematic technical sessions.
Poster Presentations
Selected research, case studies and innovations will be presented through posters.
Presentation schedules, formats and instructions will be communicated to accepted contributors.
Conference Timeline
Conference Chair
Shri Ashok K. K. Meena, IAS
Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India
Convenor
Shri Priyatu Mandal, IAS
Joint Secretary-cum-Director & Head, SPM NIWAS, Govt. of India
Assistant Convenor
Shri Kaushik Ghosh
Technical Officer, SPM NIWAS
Advisory Committee
Prof. Pradip Kumar Tiwari
IIT Jodhpur
Prof. Mihir Kr. Purkait
IIT Guwahati
Prof. Gopal Naik
IIM Bangalore
Prof. Amit Mitra
IIT Kanpur
Prof. Amita Bhide
TISS Mumbai
Editorial Committee
Chief Editor
Prof. Asis Mazumdar
Former Director and Professor, School of Water Resources Engineering, Jadavpur University.
Co-Editor
Dr. Tamal Mandal
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India.
Dr. Pulak Mishra
Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Dr. Debashis De
Professor,Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology,West Bengal.
In case of any queries, please contact: Mr. Rangeet Mitra (+91 83349 49342; rangeet.niwas@nic.in)
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