Bhopal

Organizers:

• Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI)
• Madhya Pradesh’s  Organic Farming Association (MPOFA)

Venue: State Institute of Agriculture Extension Training (SIAET), Barkhedi Kala, Bhopal

The Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) is a sectoral management institute, which constantly endeavours to evolve knowledge useful for the managers in the area of Forest, Environment and Natural Resources Management and allied sectors.

This paper begins with an analysis of the rationale for idol immersion in Hinduism. Some of the reasons given by the author include water being able to disintegrate idols, the idea of purity of water etc.

National Conference on Water
Theme:"Efficient Water Management: Challenges and Solutions"

Organizers:

• Water Digest
• Bhaskar Foundation
• Dainik Bhaskar

Topics:

• Efficient use of Water: Need for Institutional Mechanism
• Creation and Restoration of Water Bodies: Case Studies
• Health & Hygiene: Purity and Availability Matrix
• Water Harvesting & Ground Recharging: Every drop is precious
• Maximizing efficiency, cleaning impurities: Role of Modern Technologies

Venue: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Description:

We are delighted to invite you to National Conference on Water on the theme Efficient Water Management: Challenges and Solutions jointly organized by Water Digest ,  Bhaskar Foundation and Dainik Bhaskar and Supported by Govt. Of Madhya Pradesh to be held on June 25-26, 2010 at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

This is an International conference that intends to discuss the problems on water resources, biodiversity, climatic change and communicate the role of society in the present environmental scenario.

Organized by: The Bhopal School of Social Sciences,Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

The newsletter explores the ways in which national laws, court pronouncements and judgements and international commitments can be interpreted to imply a right to water and sanitation.

Specific articles cover:

-Individual court cases and Supreme Court pronouncements

This draft research report by the People’s Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun deals with groundwater contamination near the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal. The main objective of PSI's monitoring exercise was to assess the degree of groundwater contamination, if any, in the vicinity of the erstwhile UCIL plant particularly in the context of the huge quantum of the ill-contained toxic wastes lying unheeded inside.

This brief on the International Lake Environment Committee site discusses the situation of lakes in the South East Asian region in the context of the growing water crisis and the gradual degradation o

This paper on the GIS Development site describes the findings of a study that aimed at mapping chlorophyll-a in upper lake, Bhopal using Irs-1C data

The report by Navdanya and Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology is in two parts. The first part lists the World Bank projects in three categories – loans given from 1950-1990, water restructuring projects from 1990-2005, and projects at approval stage. The second part of the report includes case studies of World Bank driven water privatization projects in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.