AIR & HEALTH | WATER & HEALTH | TOXINS & HEALTH
Conference on Health and Environment [March 24-25, 2006]
Draft programme on Water, sanitation and health
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VENUE: acaranda Hall -II India Habitat Centre Lodhi Road New Delhi
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Adobe® AcrobatTM format. | Session 1 | Setting health based drinking water standards | |
| Session Chairperson | V
P Sharma Professor Emeritus, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi |
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10.30 |
Body burden due to waterborne diseases | V
P Sharma Professor Emeritus, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi |
11.00 |
Health-based standards for drinking water- Indian experience | M.
Sudersanan,
Chairman, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Committee on drinking water quality standards |
11.30 |
Research, monitoring and regulatory strategies to deal with emerging chemical contaminants in drinking water | Krishna
Gopal Dubey Head, Aquatic Toxicology Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow |
12.00 |
DISCUSSIONS | |
| 1.30 | LUNCH | |
| Session 2 | State of the art in water quality monitoring and surveillance | |
| Session chairperson | M Sudersanan | |
2.30 |
Water safety plans for developing countries | Roisin
Rooney, Environmental health Adviser, WHO, South East Asia Regional Office, New
Delhi |
| 3.00 | Surveillance of drinking water quality and formulation of guidelines for surveillance of drinking water quality in cities and towns | M V Nanoti, Director, GEM
Division, NEERI Nagpur |
| 3.30 – 3.45 | TEA | |
| 3.45 | Managing health risks associated with chemicals used in water treatment | Neeta
P Thacker, Deputy Director, GEM Division, NEERI, Nagpur |
| 4.10 | Mapping
arsenic affected areas for health impacts in West Bengal |
Amitava
Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, Kolkota |
| 4.30– 4:50 | Global
overview of standard setting processes and challenges and way ahead for developing
countries |
Sam
Godfrey Project Officer Water & Environmental Sanitation United Nations Children’s Fund, Bhopal |
| 4:50-5:30 | DISCUSSIONS | |
| DAY 2 | March 25 | |
| Session 3 | Safe wastewater reuse and disposal: A regulatory challenge | |
| Session chairperson | KV Raju, Professor and Head Ecological Economics unit, Institute for social and economic change | |
| 9.30 | Challenges in wastewater reuse and disposal | Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi |
| 9.50 | Health-based standards for wastewater reuse and recycling – the way ahead | Sam
Godfrey,
Project Officer (Water & Environmental Sanitation) United Nations Children’s Fund
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| 10.10 | Safe reuse of wastewater in agriculture and aquaculture- WHO perspective | AK Sengupta, National Professional Officer, WHO, New Delhi |
| 10.30-10.50 TEA | ||
| 10.50 | Sustainable technology options for safe reuse of wastewater in India | RC Trivedi, Additional Director, Central Pollution Control Board,
New Delhi |
| 11.10 | Potential of soil aquifer treatment in contaminant removal and groundwater recharge - Gujarat experience and way ahead for incorporating health criteria | S.K.
Gupta, Scientist 'G' Planetary & Geosciences Division
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
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| 11.30 | Application of environmental biotechnology in wastewater monitoring- | Rita Kumar, Head, Environment Biotechnology Division, Institute of Genomics and Integrative
Biology New Delhi |
| 11.45 | Assessing health impact of wastewater reuse in urban agriculture:Data requirements and gaps- a case study from Musi basin | Saba Ishaq, Scientific Officer, International Water Management Institute, Hyderabad |
| Session 4 | Way forward | |
| 12.00 | Facilitated discussion | Investigators and regulators |
| 1.30 | LUNCH | |
| 2.30 | Common Plenary | |
| 4.00 | Valedictory session | |
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