Participants, who were groundwater managers and researchers from six
countries including India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Viet
Nam, presented their work on the development and application of
Groundwater Sustainability Infrastructure Index (GSII) to evaluate the
sustainability of groundwater resources in their respective cities.
“This is the second and concluding workshop in the project supported
by Asia Pacific Network for Global Change (APN) and jointly implemented
by AIT, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan,
and the International Research Center for River Basin Environment
(ICRE), University of Yamanashi, Japan,” Dr. Sangam Shrestha informed.
Prof. Voratas Kachitivichyanukul, Interim Dean, School of Engineering
and Technology (SET), AIT, welcomed the participants; while Dr. Jariya
Boonjawat, Co-Chair, Scientific Planning Group, APN provided an
overview of the APN. The keynote address was delivered by Prof. Mukand
Singh Babel, Director, Research Center for Sustainable Development in
the Context of Climate Change.
The first workshop under this project was organized on 16-17 January
2014 at AIT.
News about the workshop was also published on the APN
website:
http://www.apn-gcr.org/2014/07/29/researchers-meet-to-develop-new-tool-for-groundwater-sustainability-in-asian-cities/
For more information about the project, please visit: http://www.apngw.ait.ac.th/
