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Report of the exchange meeting on safeguarding future rural drinking water supply in Odisha, held at Bhubaneswar, between April 29-30, 2010
Posted on 05 Sep, 2010 10:23 PMA two day workshop on "Safe guard Future drinking water supply in Odisha", was organised on 29-30 April 2010. This event was as a result of cooperation between Gram Vikas, UNICEF, Deltares and ICCO (organisations involved in water supply and sanitation) and evolved out of a felt need to engage people from diverse fields to provide inputs for designing future courses of action.
Movie reviews from 'Voices from the Waters 2010' film festival held in Bangalore
Posted on 28 Aug, 2010 08:58 AMReviews of some of the movies screened -
“Be water, My friend”
This UNESCO funded film, “Be water, My friend” tracks the research of Professor Gordon Lightgoot, an expert on ancient water monuments as he tries to understand and rectify the alarming drying up of Karez’s in northern Iragi region of Kurdistan.
Is Eco-technology complementing the existing conventional technologies or defying them?
Posted on 30 Jun, 2010 11:27 AMSustainability – this word has assumed tremendous importance today, in the context of “development”. The advancement of human civilization in terms of technology, economics and life-style is turning out to be lop-sided. It is being realized that the sheer amount of wastes generated by the present population, is becoming more and more unmanageable with each passing day.
Longest toilet queue campaign by WaterAid Orissa in Puri
Posted on 07 Apr, 2010 04:06 PMThe World's Longest Toilet Queue on 20th March 2010 at Puri sea beach.
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Proceedings of the Rainwater Harvesting Mela 2010 held on the occasion of World Water Day by Arghyam in Bangalore
Posted on 07 Apr, 2010 03:26 PMModel for self-financing ecological sustainable local development projects for the world's poor - Full year e-learning course
Posted on 03 Apr, 2010 09:01 PMThis website describes the principles and techniques of self-financing, ecological, sustainable local integrated development projects for the world's poor in detail. In each project area with about 50.000 people social, financial, productive and services are set up in a critical order of sequence to ensure a good quality of life everyone, without exclusion, in each project area. The Model gives full coverage to drinking water structures, rain-water harvesting and recycling of grey water for household level cultivation.
Screenings/lectures/discussions - World Water Day 22nd/23rd March
Posted on 19 Mar, 2010 10:38 AM- New bill to penalize those wasting drinking water-Deccan Herald, Bangalore March 9
- Privatisation no solution to tackle water shortage in city- Deccan Herald March 9
- Water Crisis to worsen in city- Deccan Herald March 12
- City is the second highest water waster in country at 50.9% New Delhi top the list at 52.4%- Deccan Herald March 13
While all these questions remain unanswered and new ones add
The city gets thirstier under the scorching summer sun and the water vendors make fast buck in some instances as much as Rs 1000 for a tank load of water, a consortium of concerned organisations and institutions working on water and environment issues invite you to a panel discussion and film screenings on the use and abuse of water on March 22nd & 23rd 2010 at Ashirvad, 30 St. Mark Road Cross, Opp. State Bank of India at 5.45pm.
News updates on the floods
Posted on 06 Oct, 2009 05:46 PMNews updates from various media sources about the floods. You can also find up-to-date news updates on India Water Portal's news feed:
https://www.indiawaterportal.org/news
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Mumbai Mirror:
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?page=article§id=3&contentid=20091005200910050347421404a8e72fe
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?page=article§id=3&contentid=2009100620091006031259984ba7a4bb6
An overview of the water-related aspects of Sikkim
Posted on 14 Aug, 2009 04:30 PMAn overview of the water-related aspects of Sikkim from CGWB Eastern Region
An overview of the water-related aspects of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Posted on 11 Aug, 2009 12:10 PMAn overview of the water-related aspects of the islands from CGWB Eastern Region