LPU is actively promoting conscious water usage beyond its campus to inspire the wider community, including local residents, businesses, and organizations, to embrace water conservation. By implementing effective water management practices, campus serves as a model for responsible water use. The university has installed low-flow faucets and toilets, energy-efficient water heaters, and uses recycled treated water for agricultural purposes, significantly reducing water consumption. These actions showcase replicable practices that the surrounding community can adopt. University dedication to environmental preservation includes hosting seminars that raise awareness about efficient water usage and the importance of conservation in response to the growing water crisis. These seminars engage students, employees, and the general public, underscoring water-saving behaviors that extend into daily life. Further encourages water-conscious habits through initiatives such as xeriscaping, improved irrigation practices, and actively discouraging water wastage. By reaching out to those beyond the campus,University highlights the importance of individual contributions to water conservation, setting a standard for sustainable development and ecological responsibility in the community.
Hands-on workshop empowering students and community with innovative solutions for water sustainability.
A Community-Driven Design Thinking Workshop for Water Sustainability
Organized in partnership with PSCST and the Ministry of Environment, Forest, & Climate Change, this event brought together scientists, policymakers, and many local peoples and students. Activities included hands-on design sessions for rural water-saving solutions, rainwater harvesting system fabrication using recycled materials, and interactive public exhibitions. Attendees took the World Water Day Pledge, reinforcing collective responsibility for water sustainability. Coverage included extensive photography and social media engagement demonstrating active community participation and practical water-saving inventions.
Community engagement in action—learning and teaching sustainable water practices.
Community Wastewater Treatment Event
LPU hosted a three-day workshop focused on community-based technologies for domestic wastewater treatment. Local residents, students, and municipal leaders participated in field visits to the LPU Sewage Treatment Plant, where demonstrations and training sessions illustrated decentralized and household-level water reuse systems. The event showcased how LPU’s collaboration with the Phagwara Municipal Corporation supports sustainable water management in neighboring communities.
Community engagement in action—learning and teaching sustainable water practices
Community engagement in action—learning and teaching sustainable water practices
Village Outreach Drives and Water Conservation Campaigns
LPU outreach teams regularly visit surrounding villages to conduct educational sessions and distribute informational material in local languages. Faculty and students assist with installing rainwater harvesting units and demonstrate water-efficient irrigation and management techniques in partnership with local farmers. Event coverage includes photos of active participation, technology demonstrations, and positive community feedback, documented for sustainability reporting.
Students showcase their innovative projects, turning ideas into community solutions.
Innovation Expo and Competitions
LPU’s annual Innovation & Graduating Project Expo (INNOTEK) features over 750 student projects, including AI-powered water management systems, smart irrigation devices, and recycled-material-based purification units. Many projects are designed for real-world deployment in off-campus settings, with photographic documentation and project results shared across official platforms.
LPU’s Commitment to Community-Led Conservation Initiatives
Community Engagement in Water Management
Lovely Professional University has a dedicated approach to water management and community engagement which focuses on clean water and sanitation. LPU's efforts align with its role in addressing water challenges within local communities, raising awareness, and implementing effective water conservation practices. LPU's efforts align with its role in addressing water is humanity’s lifeblood from the food we eat to the ecosystems and biodiversity that enrich our world.
University Dignitaries Lead by Example, Taking Pledge During Community Workshop on Water Conservation Awareness
Workshop organized to raise awareness and promote conscious water usage in the community
University organized workshops for nearby communities, where dignitaries, faculty, students, and local residents take pledges to encourage responsible water usage and sustainable practices. These initiatives emphasize reducing consumption, minimizing wastage, and safeguarding water as a vital resource.LPU demonstrates practical solutions by installing low-flow faucets and toilets, energy-efficient water heaters, and systems for reusing treated wastewater in agriculture. These sustainable practices act as a living model for surrounding communities, showing how water-saving methods can be integrated into everyday life. The workshops also inspire behavior change, encouraging xeriscaping, efficient irrigation, and the elimination of unnecessary water use.Through these collective efforts, LPU fosters a culture of sustainability, proving that every individual can make a meaningful contribution to water conservation—an urgent need in today’s era of growing water scarcity.
Water usage campaign: Enhancing Skills in Water Demand and Supply Management
Empowering Water Management Skills
As part of its community outreach, LPU organized a water usage campaign led by expert faculty, focused on "Enhancing Skills in Water Demand and Supply Management" for participants from external organizations. Participants gained essential skills in designing water networks, simulating water demand and supply, evaluating uncertainties, and analyzing water supply sustainability.
Hands-On Workshop: Mastering Water Supply Networks and Advanced Management Techniques
Mastering Water Management Techniques
As part of an open and collaborative campus outreach initiative, LPU hosted the "Water Utility Management Workshop" through HRDC, engaging external participants in advanced training. This hands-on workshop included practical exercises in water supply networks and hydraulics, data integration, and output analysis.
Street Showcase: Waterless Car Wash Innovation awarness by the LPU Students to Promote Water Conservation Awareness
Promoting Waterless Innovation
LPU students recently launched the "Go Clean & Safe" initiative, taking to the streets to showcase their innovative water-less car wash concept. This outreach effort aimed to raise public awareness about water conservation by demonstrating sustainable practices in everyday life. Through community engagement and interactive demonstrations, the students highlighted the importance of reducing water usage and adopting eco-friendly alternatives.
Univeristy Students unite for Sutlej River Clean-Up activity in collaboration with NCC and community participants
Sutlej River Revitalization
In collaboration with NCC and community participants, LPU students led a clean-up initiative along the Sutlej River, one of Punjab's major water sources. This outreach activity brought together collective efforts to remove waste from the riverbed, raising awareness within the community about the importance of preserving natural water resources.
University students took initiative in Community Awareness for Water conscious usage
Water Preservation by transitioning to Water-Efficient Fixtures and Fittings
LPU students organized an outreach awareness program to promote conscious water usage by encouraging the adoption of water-saving alternatives in residential and public spaces. The initiative focused on replacing traditional fixtures with push-button taps on water coolers, low-flow faucets, shower-heads, and dual-flush toilets, alongside promoting practices like taking bucket baths, avoiding running taps, and using water-conserving laundry facilities. They also raised awareness about installing automatic sensor-based urinals, semi-automatic push-button taps, and water-saving spray jet nozzles.
University students organize Workshop to curb water wastes in community
Water Conservation and Gardening Workshop for School Children
To promote conscious water usage in the wider community, LPU has partnered with local corporations, water distribution companies, schools, non-profits, and local authorities to implement water-saving measures. Together, they organize activities, events, and educational sessions to teach practical methods for conserving water and reducing waste. Through these collaborations, LPU fosters a shared commitment to water conservation, empowering community members to make responsible water choices and supporting sustainable practices across the region.
Students of LPU meet with industrialists and organized Seminar to solve water issues in communities
Industrial Pollution Awareness and Prevention Seminar
Faculty and students of LPU also contribute to solving water issues in communities, seeking for solutions that are faced by the population of the locality using water sources. This research is beneficial to industries and municipalities as well as the environment organizations within the region. Additionally, demonstration systems such as rainwater recycling and collection system illustrations act as healthy concepts that local people and business can practice in their structures.
