Who are we?

The PAVITR Launchpad for Sustainable Water Partnerships is an Initiative of PAVITR – “Potential and Validation of Sustainable Natural & Advance Technologies for Water & Wastewater Treatment, Monitoring and Safe Water Reuse in India”.

The European Union and the Department of Sciences and Technology of the Government of India launched the multinational initiative “Potential and Validation of Sustainable Natural & Advance Technologies for Water & Wastewater Treatment, Monitoring and Safe Water Reuse in India” or PAVITR. The project team consists of international water experts from Europe and India, providing cutting-edge technology, knowledge and sustainable solutions for the planet’s most pressing water related issues.

The main aim of the PAVITR is to validate, deploy or develop cost-effective & sustainable solutions to tackle water challenges and ensure the provision of safe water reuse, rejuvenate water quality of rivers, and restore ecosystems in India. This is achieved by deploying & developing water / wastewater technologies, and use of sensors for emerging and traditional contaminants. Further, it also aims at developing new management & planning strategies and enable better monitoring of pollution levels in real-time modes. This not only contributes to the development of sustainable technologies to cope with water shortages in rural and urbanised areas in India, but also in Europe, where climate change is expected to induce uncertain precipitation patterns and increasing temperatures.

PAVITR assesses and enhances the potential of natural and technical water treatment systems to suit the local hydro-geological conditions. Moreover, the project examines and validates different wastewater and water management plans. Besides the technical aspects, research also covers aspects of financial, environmental and institutional sustainability of those systems in order to develop and bring a cost-efficient multi-barrier water management approach to the market.