INDO-DANISH BILATERAL GREEN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Recently, the second edition of water innovation challenges was announced to address the global water woes through innovations.

Important points:

• It was announced by the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and the Royal Embassy of Denmark to India as part of the Indo-Danish Bilateral Green Strategic partnership in 2020.
• An important driving force in the green transition – and the Green Strategic Partnership – is technology, especially entrepreneurship driven technology.
• The water challenge will foster this, but also bring it to on the ground implementation.
• This collaboration will provide solutions to improve sustainable water supply in India and at the global level.
• The winners of the challenges will also represent India at the International Water Congress 2022.

Objective:

1. The initiative aims to identify innovative & next-gen solutions in the water sector to solve proposed challenges in collaboration with corporate and public partners.
2. The initiative will engage young talents from leading universities and innovation hubs across the nation to build their skills and apply their technical disciplines and innovation capacity.

Need:

• For India, it is significant because India is currently facing massive water challenges, which in recent years have become one of the most urgent policy issues.
• The problem ranges across depleting underground water levels unsafe drinking water, water loss due to inadequate sewerage systems, access to water and untreated wastewater polluting India’s major rivers.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT