While the world is facing a set of challenges from population pressure, food insecurity, global hunger, carbon emission and growing inequality along with water management for survival of the mankind is compounding the complexity of the challenges.

All the different dimensions as incorporated in our main theme are of crucial importance. Significance to address these challenges while developing a true scientific methodology at the national and global level and to adopt practices to mitigate these challenges by all relevant stake holders for the continuity of our race as a whole is paramount.

By virtue of very basic nature of an academic institution either individually or in association with other leading institutions, it can play a pivotal role in this regard through basic and applied research in these crisis areas along with advising all the stake holders (specially Govt. of respective states/countries) through an appropriate collaborative model/ models to bring timely intervention to build up right kind of synergies to address these most critical issues of 21st century. A positive thinking of organic nature by all  will certainly pave the way for much better world, worthy of living following the principle of SDG GOALS as envisaged by UN and to follow the relevant practices as our main living style.

In view of the above, both Eternal University, Baru Sahib and IRMA - Anand has taken the lead for organizing a Conference with the aim to create a platform for industry experts, researchers and civic societies to discuss various issues as narrated above and to chart out actions for drawing up a future roadmap for research and development in the sector through an International Conference.

Accordingly, an International Conference on Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing Industry has been planned by the Eternal University, Baru Sahib and IRMA Water Centre, IRMA on 25th to 26th of March 2022 with the participation of national & international experts from Industry, civic societies/ practitioners, Government, and Academic Institutions.

We expect maximum participation from institutions and bodies directly and indirectly concerned with and getting affected to a great extent because our non-sustainable practices through online/ offline presence along with paper presentations to be published after the conference, to make it a grand success. The papers once accepted will be presented in the form of a book as the conference proceedings and it will be widely circulated among all important stakeholders deeply involved and engaged to address these crisis areas.

The theme of the conference is centered on "Water Management in Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing Industry." Efficient water management is one of the most important steps in the world for living beings. The conference will have speakers from industry experts, policymakers/planners, academicians, researchers, and presentations of original research of the scholars in various areas on water management in the dairy and food processing industry.

Some indicative areas of research and consulting are as follows: