Bureau of Indian Standards - Packaged Drinking Water
A presentation detailing the BIS regulations applicable to Packaged Drinking Water.
Plastic Waste Management - Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)
A presentation that gives a brief background of the various kinds of plastics used, the various categories and sources of plastic waste and the various recycling technologies available.
New Technologies for Water Purification - Ion Exchange (India) Limited
A presentation that gives details of new water treatment/purification technologies, being adopted by the industry today.
Packaged Water Industry in India - An Overview by Pepsico India
A presentation that gives a basic picture of the packaged drinking water market in India
Conformity Assessment and the Packaged Water Industry - An Overview by Underwriters' Laboratories
A presentation that gives details of packaged water certification program and describes the value of third party certification.
Book review: "The Big Necessity"
Two reviews of this very good book are below; one by Anuradha Hegde and one by Vijay Krishna
An update on ecosan work in India
An update on some recent work on ecological sanitation in India:
Indian groundwater extraction may be contributing to sea level rise
Where does the extracted groundwater go? Is it contributing to the rising sea level?
Water crisis - A crisis that will redefine civilization
Water crisis is an impending crisis that will hit the rich as hard as the poor
Global Handwashing Day for 2009
The practice of handwashing with soap has been prominent in the last few years on the international hygiene agenda. A write up on the same is given below
An integrated framework for analysis of water supply strategies in a developing city - Chennai (India)
A research paper that addresses the challenge of supplying water to rapidly growing cities in South Asia, using evidence from the water-scarce city of Chennai.
Flood Relief Camp - Cheers to their Spirits!
A picture of devastating floods and huge amount of destruction caused by rain and floods
Sanitation in the flood affected areas - Biome Solutions
A report on the ecological sanitation or ecosan provided by Biome Solutions
News updates - 15th October, 2009
News update for the 15 October 2009
Young Climate Savers programme:Teacher's manual on climate change and energy
WWF-India has designed the Young Climate Savers programme, aimed at imparting education on climate change through teacher training workshops and mainstreaming climate issues in the academic curriculum
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Outcomes:The Indian approach to climate change
A note on how India has tackled the ongoing climate discussions
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