Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Centre for Water Resources Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture Nepal Engineering College Tata Institute of Social Sciences Irrigation and Water Engineering Group
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Centre for Water Resources, Anna University:
 
Chennai – 600 025, Tamil Nadu, India.
 

Tel: +91-44-2235 1075; 2220 3275
Fax: +91-44-22351075
Website : www.annauniv.edu
 

Status
 
The Centre for Water Resources is one of the advanced centres of Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The Centre is fully autonomous for projects and it is under the Department of Civil Engineering for all academic programmes. The Centre is governed by an Executive Committee headed by the Vice- Chancellor as its Chairman and the Director as its Member-Secretary. The Registrar, two Deans (Sponsored Research and Academic Research) and two outside Experts are Members of the Committee. The Director is operating project funds with independent bank accounts.
 

Prof. K. Karunakaran, Director
kkaruna@annauniv.edu

Prof. (Ms ) N.K.Ambujam
nkambuj@annauniv.edu

 
The Centre for Water Resources is basically a renamed and upgraded Hydraulics Division, Department of Civil Engineering, of the erstwhile College of Engineering, Guindy. It is the first advanced multi-disciplinary Centre of the University, started one year later than the inception of the University itself. The initial Postgraduate degree introduced in 1956 by the Hydraulics Division was M.Sc. (Engineering) in Advanced Hydraulics, Dam Construction and Irrigation Engineering. This degree has gone through several changes and the present one offered by the Centre is two years M.E. in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering. Realising the importance of Irrigation Water Management, the Centre introduced an M.E. degree in Irrigation Water Management as one of the first Universities in India to do so. Basically, water resources control and management has been under the purview of engineers in India and the World as a whole. Engineers, being technical, started to realise the deficiencies in water management which has become complicated due to the changed scenario of social and economical implications. This has been appreciated during the 1980s and attempts were made to introduce these components in irrigation water management. However, the water resources in general is still in the hands of technical people and there is a need to improve this as in the case of irrigation water. Hence, the Centre for Water Resources in currently focusing its attention in looking at the water resources management holistically by integrating all aspects such as sociology, economics, gender issues, small and marginal water users, etc.