Andhra Pradesh

Red Hills reservoir leaks Chennai's water supply!
News this week: Chennai's Red Hills reservoir is leaking water; quantum of uranium in 'Thummalapalle' groundwater poses no threat to people; Kerala has the cleanest Anganwadi toilets.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 10 Feb, 2014 04:49 PM

Chennai's drinking water seeps down the drain
A reservoir in Tamil Nadu (Source: Wikipedia)
Application Invited for 'Senior Fellow- Water and Disaster', SaciWATERs, Hyderabad
SaciWATERs seeks a "Senior Fellow - Water and Disasters" to independently lead and coordinate projects addressing water quality and related issues.
Posted on 06 Feb, 2014 08:20 PM

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Invitation to a Sharing Workshop on 'Participatory Groundwater Management in Andhra Pradesh', WASSAN, Hyderabad
Through this workshop, WASSAN aims to spread the message of collective action for improving the groundwater management and governance in Andhra Pradesh
Posted on 06 Feb, 2014 07:51 PM

Overview:
Pooling borewells and opportunities
Groundwater use is synonymous with individual rights. Malkaipeta Thanda, a village in Andhra Pradesh, has shown the opposite-that a community can share and benefit from it too.
Harshvardhan Dhawan
Chicu Lokgariwar
Posted on 03 Feb, 2014 12:48 PM

Gamalibai is a farmer in Malkaipeta Thanda, a small tribal hamlet of the Lambadi community in Ibrahimpur village, Ranga Reddy district in Andhra Pradesh. She does not have much in common with the image of the hearty, prosperous farmer that beams at us from posters selling agricultural machinery.
Gamalibai on her farm
Bird sanctuary Chilika designated 'Destination Flyways'
News this week: UN to develop strategies to protect migratory birds in Chilika, Odisha; Cochin estuary has highest in toxicity in the world; Jaipur farmers in conflict with bottling plant.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 29 Jan, 2014 12:29 PM

Chilika lagoon named as 'Destination Flyways' by UN
Chilika bird sanctuary, Odisha (Source:Aditi Pany)
Despite government funding, only 30% urban slums have toilets
News this week: Toilets in only 30% urban slums, pipeline being laid close to Golconda fort and 99 illegal dyeing units unearthed in Tirupur
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 08 Jan, 2014 12:03 PM

Welfare schemes not of much use to urban slums
Toilet-less in urban slums (Source: bbc.co.uk)
Water News: 2013 in review
Beginning with the Kumbh Mela and moving on to natural disasters like the floods in Uttarakhand and the cyclone in eastern India, water made big news throughout 2013.
Ravleen Kaur
Swati Bansal
Posted on 06 Jan, 2014 12:16 PM

Kumbh Mela left its trash behind
Shiva statue, Kedarnath (Source: ibtimes.co.uk)
Coca Cola plant in UP lowers groundwater level
Policy matters this week: Coca Cola plant in Mehdiganj lowers groundwater level, Haryana plans water misuse bill and Punjab makes water recycling compulsory for water consuming industries.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 22 Dec, 2013 08:41 PM

Coca Cola plant in Mehdiganj lowers groundwater level
Mehdiganj protest (Source: AID Kolkata Newsletter)
Invite to the 'Go Green Photo Fest, 2014', ExcelEdge India, Hyderabad
To utilize photo creativity to raise awareness of significance of ecological elements of our mother earth- air, water, soil.
Posted on 04 Dec, 2013 12:57 PM

Organisers

ExcelEdge India

Objectives of the Fest
Go Green Photo Fest _2014
Vacancy for the post of 'Researcher', Centre for Environment and Food Security, Delhi
CEFS proposes to carry out documentation and research on the best practices of the NREGS adopted and implemented in Andhra Pradesh.
Posted on 03 Dec, 2013 10:17 AM

Organiser

Centre for Environment and Food Security

Job description

To carry out documentation and research on the best practices of the NREGS adopted and implemented in Andhra Pradesh (AP ) through following components:
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