A webinar on “Advances in Forest Hydrology: Challenges and Opportunities” on 18th February 2022

Forest Ecology and Climate Change Division, FRI organized a one-daywebinar on “Advances in Forest Hydrology: Challenges and Opportunities” on 18^th February 2022. The purpose of this webinar was to discuss and develop an understanding of the issues related to forest hydrology and to developed future strategies of research work in the discipline of forest hydrology. The webinar was attended by scientists, technical staff, and students of different ICFRE institutes, FRIDU. The webinar started with a welcome address by Dr. V. P. Panwar, Head, FE&CC division. The Director, FRI and DG, ICFRE, Sh. Arun Singh Rawat, in his inaugural address, expressed his concern about the rising water pollution. He insisted that there should be a collaboration with other organizations and all should remain updated regarding the recent happenings and research in these fields. He extends that, there is a lot of pressure on water resources due to the burgeoning population and because of this majority are forced to drink packaged water in India. So, this is high time to work on water resources and other organizations should also come up for synergistic efforts. Work done in the past and present is on a watershed basis, which was like a pilot study so, elaborated/detailed studies are required.