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Tamil Nadu Branch Seminar on “<strong>Indo</strong>-U.S. Partnership in Water Sector – The Road Ahead” on April 28, 2012 at Hotel Taj Club House, Chennai <strong>Indo</strong> <strong>American</strong> <strong>Chamber</strong> of Commerce (IACC) in association with U.S. Commercial Service, <strong>American</strong> Consulate General, Chennai as an initiative to promote investments in water sector, which is very critical to circumvent <strong>the</strong> burning challenges in Indian water sector, has conducted a Seminar on “<strong>Indo</strong>-U.S. Partnership in Water Sector – The Road Ahead” on April 28, 2012 (Saturday) at Hotel Taj Club House, Chennai. The seminar opened an opportunity for technology suppliers to share across <strong>the</strong>ir experience and technical know-how which could be leveraged upon to address <strong>the</strong> core issues. Mr. Raman Govindarajan, Chairman, of IACC (TN) welcomed <strong>the</strong> audience and spoke about <strong>the</strong> importance of water as a premier resource for domestic, agricultural, and industrial consumption, <strong>the</strong> evolution of consumption and availability patterns in <strong>the</strong> past decades. Raman also outlined <strong>the</strong> IACC’s activities in promoting <strong>Indo</strong>-US businesses, in <strong>the</strong> past and planned events in <strong>the</strong> future, especially in Education, Infrastructure, Post and Logistics etc., and <strong>the</strong> potentials for collaboration between US and Indian Organizations in Water Sector. Mr. Jim Golsen, Principal Commercial <strong>Of</strong>ficer of U.S. Consulate General, Chennai, laid a specific emphasis on collaboration opportunities to promote finance and technology transfer between US and India. He also spoke about increasing presence of US Businesses in India, with a lot of support provided by US Govt. by way of EXIM bank support etc. While delivering <strong>the</strong> keynote address, Mr. B. Ramaswamy, Lead – South Region, Feedback Infrastructure provided <strong>the</strong> water scenario in India. His note ended with <strong>the</strong> key summary of all potential areas w<strong>here</strong> US-India collaboration could help in taking <strong>the</strong> water sector to <strong>the</strong> next level. Mr. Joseph Ravikumar, Sr. Institutional Devp. Specialist, The World Bank has shared his real time experience by quoting one of classical case study on wastewater recycling from a petrochemical industry in Chennai. Dr. K. Rajivan, IAS (Retd.), Consultant, The World Bank & Former CEO, TN Urban Development Fund brought in dimension related to equity and debt financing through PPP model is water sector by sharing a successful case study on pooling finance model in Chennai. The challenges & opportunities in Indian Water market for <strong>the</strong> private sector was presented by Mr. Sanjib Saha, Chief Corporate Assurance <strong>Of</strong>ficer, VA Tech Wabag Ltd. Finally <strong>the</strong> seminar ended with <strong>the</strong> briefing from Mr.K.Venkatesaperumal, Manager, Climate Change & Sustainability Services (CCaSS), Ernst & Young Private Limited, which covered <strong>the</strong> recent regulations and policies in India Water Sector. The principles of water management and <strong>the</strong> key measures that could be adopted by industries to reduce <strong>the</strong>ir specific water consumption through case studies were also presented. The delegates from Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), as a team had brought in <strong>the</strong>ir international experience in varied areas right from water sampling, measurement and monitoring techniques. A specific emphasis was made on <strong>the</strong> need for <strong>the</strong> water sector to have technology intervention to have water conservation through adoption of 3R (Reduce, Recycle & Reuse) concept.
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