Research

The continuous rise in population and environmental problems are witnessing a drastic destruction of our living habitat, which is not only resulting in climate change and drinking water problems due to pollution but also in outbreaks of several communicable and non-communicable diseases. Water contamination and climate change poses many threats to human health from severe weather and water linked infectious disease risks to disrupted food systems and population displacement.

To manage these water associated health threats and other environmental problems, we must switchover to sustainable management approaches including technological frameworks to mitigate the water contamination, drinking water treatment options, climate change in many areas, alternative energy sources, including green infrastructure, governance and technology.

Human exposure to water associated infections occurs by unsafe drinking water, contact with contaminated water, recreational water, or food. The Department of Environmental Sciences, as the name indicates is dedicated to carryout extensive research on analysis, assessment and mitigation of human diseases and wealth through advance water research and sustainable environmental management approaches including geospacial techniques and nanotechnology. The department has recognized as one of the pioneer research centre in the field of Water Research & Sustainable Technology.

The major research activities mainly concentrating on advanced water treatment (PC/PEC, Hybrid-membrane technology, bio-remediation, etc) methods for safe and clean drinking water, integrated water resources management at catchment and rurban level, water quality improvement and feasible treatment techniques at rural region, water-energy-environment nexus, advanced materials for clean and alternative energy, geo-spacial techniques for water resource management and sustainable township, nano-technological approaches for human health and environment, pollution mitigation techniques and ecosystem conversation.

All faculty members are well qualified and have good interdisciplinary research experience from pioneer research institutes that enable to mentoring the students to achieve their research goal of their interest. Moreover, the faculty members have a unique diversity of research interests and actively encourage cross-disciplinary research problems. The research activities in the department is associated and supported by world class hospital with more than 300 health professionals from medical, dental and pharmacy fields to enhance the skills which provides better understanding of dynamic interaction of water-health-energy-environment nexus mechanisms and mitigation strategies.

The faculty members in department has research collaborations with reputed institutions at national and international level and proving excellent platforms under research exchange program to the students and research scholars to carryout cutting edge research in the field of Water Research and Advanced Technology. The department has received financial support from national and international funding agencies to conduct the state-of-art research in the field of Water and Health Research.