Advanced Center For Water Resources Development And Management

ACWADAM's action research has spanned two decades now. Moreover, its action research is backed by more than 35 years of conventional academic research Read more by its founder trustees. The focus of this research is groundwater management. The action research has included scientific aspects of developing implementable plans for groundwater management, without overemphasising the need to publish research in a classically academic mode. The conventional over-emphasis on scientific precision in aquifer understanding, ironically casts a mysterious mask on the pedagogy of groundwater as a common pool resource whereas this very aspect should become fundamental to many public programmes dealing with water, given India's large dependency on groundwater resources. In many ways, this contradiction leads to a disregard of science in various programmes.

ACWADAM's mission is to stimulate and facilitate work related to groundwater management in various parts of India through partnerships, while evolving into an institution that works on aquifer-based groundwater management.

ACWADAM has provided significant inputs to developing the National Aquifer Mapping Programme during India's 12th Five Year Plan and is playing a pivotal role in developing knowledge-driven management of spring water resources in the Himalayan region.