Knowledge is essential for solving complex water challenges. Making it openly accessible helps practitioners, communities, and institutions learn, collaborate, and improve water management.
OUR APPROACH
Water knowledge in India is often scattered across research institutions, government reports, field programmes, and community experiences. Much of this knowledge remains difficult to access, limiting its ability to inform practice and decision making.
India Water Portal was created to address this gap by making water knowledge openly accessible as a shared public resource.
The platform curates research, field experiences, policy discussions, data resources, and community stories from across the water sector. By bringing together diverse forms of knowledge in one place, it helps practitioners, researchers, and institutions learn from each other’s work.
India Water Portal operates on the principle that knowledge on water should function as a digital commons. When information is openly available and widely shared, it enables greater collaboration, improves problem solving, and supports better decision making across the ecosystem.
Over the years, the portal has grown into one of India’s largest open knowledge platforms on water, connecting practitioners, communities, researchers, journalists, and policymakers.
By strengthening knowledge as a public good, India Water Portal helps ensure that insights from across the sector remain accessible, reusable, and valuable for improving water management across the country.
