Revive Your River

Name of training    : Revive Your River

Dates                    : August 20-22, 2025 

Water Programme of CSE successfully conducted a 3-day residential training on “Revive Your River” between August 20-22, 2025. The training focused on gaps and challenges in city’s water and waste management and its effect on the health of the rivers, and the way forward to revive the rivers through an effective and sustainable approach. 

The training was designed to enhance the knowledge of the stakeholders towards

• Sources of river pollution
• the challenges cities are facing towards managing their waste
• importance of SFD in understanding the Fecal Sludge Management of the city
• mapping of pollution sources to plan for effective solution
• understanding the water quality of the drains meeting the rivers
• the possible interventions which could reduce the pollution load
• importance of treating city’s wastewater and its reuse
• the way forward to clean the city rivers 

The training programme included a mix of lectures on different topics, hands on exercises for use of advanced tools and group activities, visit to the Environment Monitoring Laboratory of CSE and field visit. 

Participants from different organizations including Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (Rural), National Water Mission, Indore Municipal Corporation, Delhi Pollution Control Committee, research scholars from IIT Roorkee and representatives from Pani Earth Foundation, Bangalore participated in the training.