“We need to learn lessons from history to avoid natural disasters,” said A. Dhanalakshmi, Joint Secretary, Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology.
She was the chief guest at the Technoscape 23, the three-day international conference on sustainable technologies for water and wastewater treatment organised by Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore in association with Yokohama National University, Japan and Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.
“Water also has the power to destroy any civilization. Historians say that due to the manipulation of the natural flow of water’s direction in the Indus Valley, water led to flooding which led to the destruction of the civilisation. We need to learn lessons from history to avoid these types natural disasters,” Ms. Dhanalakshmi said. “We need to protect natural resources including lakes, ponds, rivers,” she added.
