The 5th International Dam Safety Conference–2019 is being held during 13 and 14 February 2019 in Bhubaneswar.
About:
Agencies involved: The Conference is a joint initiative of the Government of India, Government of Odisha and the World Bank.
Parent project: It is being organized under aegis of the ongoing World Bank assisted Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP).
Background: Dam Safety Conferences are being organized as an annual event in different DRIP States in collaboration with the Implementing Agencies and leading academic institutes.
Objective: Dam professionals, academicians, scientists, as well as industries both from within the country and from around the world to deliberate on all aspects related to dam safety and the solutions that worked best in addressing dam safety concerns.
Past conferences: This Conference is part of the series of Dam Safety Conferences organized in Chennai (2015), Bengaluru (2016), Roorkee (2017), and Thiruvananthapuram (2018).
Need of Dams Safety:
Globally India ranks third after China and the USA in terms of the number of large dams with 5264 large dams in operation and 437 large dams under construction.
About 80% of our large dams are over twenty-five years old. About 209 dams are over 100 years old and were built in an era when design practices and safety considerations were much below the current design and safety norms.
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