The theme for 2015 is Linking Land Tenure and Use for Shared Prosperity. The topic highlights that while land tenure affects the distribution of assets between men and women, generations, and social groups, patterns of land use will have far-reaching implications for welfare and other sociology-economic outcomes at household, community, or landscape level.

International Conference on Hydrology and Watershed will engage in knowledge sharing amongst academicians, scientists, engineers, NGOs, policy and decision makers around the globe to indentify innovative technologies and strategies to address the practical challenges concerning water, land and environment management suitable to developing countries in the context of developing resilience to climate change. It will also provide a platform to people from industry to exhibit their hardware and software products in water, land management and environmental technologies with a focus on protecting ecosystem services.