Last Updated: December 30, 2024
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has always strived for addressing different water challenges prevalent in the wider community. Accordingly the university promotes conscious, responsible, and sustainable water usage in the wider community through continuous outreach, scientific awareness campaigns, training programmes, student engagement, and community partnerships.
The university works across villages with active participation of multi-stakeholders in these villages including schools, youth groups, and local governments to build a culture of water stewardship aligned with SDG 6 targets—especially SDG 6.5.7, which emphasizes public awareness and community engagement in responsible water use.
A. Mera Gaon Hamara Jal is a flagship program that has been working to empower communities to come together to map and monitor water resources, quality, and practices prevalent in the different communities across India, by bringing in a transformation in the community members to view water as a collective resource and join hands to utilise it more sustainably. This is achieved through a digital platform that uses data-driven insights to empower both communities and decision-makers. This initiative, launched in 2022, utilises Amrita’s Empower Community app to map the water resources in these communities through various aspects like sources, distribution, family-wise consumption patterns and demographic details. The data is fed to SREE, an AI-powered and Geo-enabled platform used for mapping hotspots at the village level for water sustainability and quality. The system then suggests interventions to the community on more effective utilisation of water resources. This initiative has been conducted at more than 1200 communities across India and this demonstrates the power of citizen-driven digital solutions that can empower communities to achieve water equity.
Mera Gaon Hamara Jal Dashboard
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has established water management committees in different communities across India. Regular awareness programmes are held to educate households, women self help groups, and youth on addressing water challenges prevalent in those communities. These capacity-building sessions include training on
Special programmes are conducted in the schools in these communities to cultivate water-conscious values among young people:
Self-Help Groups, women’s groups, and Panchayat leaders are trained on:
The new lab provides:
