KOHIMA: Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland (SDFN) in collaboration with Regional Centre of National Afforestation and Eco-development Board, Shillong, Department of Soil and Water Conservation, and Department of Power will observe World Water Day on March 22 at Hotel Japfü, Kohima under the theme, “Water and Energy”.
The event will be organized with an objective to raise awareness about the inter-linkages between water and energy; contribute to a policy dialogue that focuses on broad range of issues related to the nexus of water and energy; highlight to decision makers in the energy sector and water domain that integrated approaches and solutions to water-energy issues can achieve greater economic and social impacts; identify policy formulation and capacity development issues in which the respective state agencies can offer significant contributions; and identify key stakeholders in the water-energy nexus and actively engage them in further developing the water-energy linkages respectively.
The key messages for World Water Day-2014, Kohima are: Water requires energy and energy requires water; Supplies are limited and demand is increasing; Saving energy is saving water. Saving water is saving energy; and Improving water and energy efficiency is imperative as are coordinated, coherent and concerted policies.
