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The Ministry of Jal Shakti and abstraction bureau ISRO connected Monday (June 1, 2026) signed a memorandum of knowing (MoU) to fortify the usage of outer exertion and space-based applications for h2o assets absorption successful the country.
The statement was signed during a nationalist store connected probe and improvement (R&D) successful the h2o assemblage organised by the Ministry of Jal Shakti astatine the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre successful New Delhi.
Under the MoU, the section of h2o resources and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) volition jointly enactment successful 24 cardinal probe areas, including reservoir monitoring, water-spread assessment, river-flow analysis, satellite-based h2o prime appraisal and studies connected macroplastic organisation successful h2o bodies.
Addressing the workshop, Union Jal Shakti Minister C. R. Patil said h2o information is captious for achieving the extremity of "Viksit Bharat" by 2047 and that water-related challenges indispensable beryllium addressed done technology, innovation, accepted cognition and nationalist participation.
"Water information is simply a captious instauration for achieving the imaginativeness of Viksit Bharat 2047. Solutions to water-related challenges indispensable beryllium driven by technology, innovation, accepted cognition and people's participation," Patil said.
Practical solutions
The curate said the ministry had supported respective probe studies successful the past decade, including 113 straight sponsored projects, which helped make applicable solutions successful the h2o sector.
Patil besides launched the 3rd signifier of the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari (JSJB) run and announced a people of creating 2 crore h2o conservation structures betwixt June 2026 and May 2027. He said the erstwhile signifier had crossed 1.5 crore structures.
The store besides saw the motorboat of the Mission for Advancement successful High-Impact Areas (MAHA)-Water programme, a associated inaugural of the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), and an unfastened telephone for startups and MSMEs nether the Bharat Water Innovation Network (Bharat WIN) platform.
Satellite-based applications
ISRO president and section of abstraction caput V. Narayanan said the statement volition deepen collaboration betwixt the 2 organisations and fortify the usage of satellite-based applications for h2o management.
"Space exertion contiguous offers unprecedented capableness for observing, assessing, forecasting and managing h2o resources," Mr. Narayanan said.
He said the concern volition enactment enactment successful areas specified arsenic groundwater assessment, h2o assets monitoring and flood forecasting, adding that practice betwixt ISRO and the h2o resources assemblage dates backmost to 1982.
ANRF main enforcement serviceman Shivkumar Kalyanaraman said the MAHA-Water programme volition enactment multi-institutional projects involving world institutions, laboratories, startups and manufacture partners.
