Chennai

Sekhar Raghavan speaks about saving our water
Talk by Sekhar Raghavan, Rain Centre, at the Rotary Club of Madras South weekly meeting on 26 April 2011 on rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation Posted on 16 May, 2011 06:51 PM

Content Courtesy: Rotary Madras South

Talk by Sekhar Raghavan, Rain Centre, at the Rotary Club of Madras South weekly meeting on 26 April 2011 on rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation - Part 1.

 

2nd National research conference on climate change, Indian Institute of Technology Madras(IITM), 11th – 13th July 2011, Chennai
Posted on 12 May, 2011 01:28 PM

National Research Conference on Climate ChangeOrganizers:

  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Sustainable urban water supply in south India : Desalination, efficiency improvement, or rainwater harvesting?
The authors propose a framework that makes it possible to evaluate a wider range of centralized and decentralized policies for urban water supply than previously considered. Posted on 11 May, 2011 05:26 PM

Abstract:

A hydrologic-economic modeling approach for analysis of urban water supply dynamics in Chennai, India
In this paper, we discuss a challenging water resources problem in a developing world city, Chennai India. Posted on 11 May, 2011 05:21 PM

 

The goal is to reconstruct past system behavior and diagnose the causes of a major water crisis.  In order to do this, we develop a hydrologic-engineering-economic model to address the complexity of urban water supply arising from consumers’ dependence on multiple interconnected sources of water. 

Factors determining informal tanker water markets in Chennai - Blog post by Veena Srinivasan
Many developing world cities have seen the emergence of informal markets. Posted on 11 May, 2011 05:15 PM

 In these, private tanker truck operators transport water extracted from peri-urban wells to urban consumers.  This study adopted a systems modeling approach to analyzing the informal tanker market in India.  The results indicate that the demand for tanker supply was caused by lack of groundwater availability in private wells as well as unreliable piped supply.

Villgro Fellowship 2011 – Building responsible social leaders – Apply by 20th May, 2011
Posted on 11 May, 2011 10:01 AM

VillgroVillgro empowers rural development by identifying and incubating innovations that can be translated to market based models thus impacting thousands of rural households. In efforts to impact rural life, we actively promote social entrepreneurship and work with different stakeholders to create and support an eco-system that empowers social entrepreneurship by means of seed funding, mentoring, networking and recognition.

The Villgro Fellowship is a 1 year program that aims to cultivate a pipeline of future leaders, who have the social commitment, leadership and operational skills to bring about permanent change in rural India, using principles of social entrepreneurship, while filling a critical talent gap within Villgro’s incubatee companies. In the last 3 years, 14 Villgro Fellows have brought about sustainable change in the lives of the rural poor, inspiring many more to join them in this movement for change.

Geo Horizon 2011, Society of Geoinformatics Engineers, 17th – 19th March, 2011, Chennai
Posted on 09 Mar, 2011 12:34 PM

ANNA UniversityOrganiser: Society of Geoinformatics Engineers (SGE)

Venue: College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy, Chennai

Description:

Water Expo 2011, 16th - 18th March, 2011, Nandambakkam, Chennai
Posted on 28 Feb, 2011 01:25 PM

Water Expo 2011Organizer: Water Today

Venue: Chennai Trade Center, Nandambakkam, Chennai

Topics:

  • Latest Technologies in Water Conservation, Harvesting Technologies & Water Audit
  • Advances in Industrial Wastewater Treatment (Oil, Greaves Removal, Electroplating Removal, Insecticides and Pesticides)
Proposed dumping site threatens water source - Video Volunteers
Chennai's main drinking water source will be affected if a proposed dumping site is built Posted on 14 Feb, 2011 10:03 AM


Critical Global Challenge - Managing Water Resources for Food Security and Sustainability, 4th - 6th March, 2011, MSSRF, Chennai
Posted on 07 Feb, 2011 11:13 AM

M S Swaminathan Research FoundationOrganizers: MSSRF and University of Nebraska

Venue: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai

Topics:

  • Setting the Agenda – Emerging Issues in Water
  • Managing Water for Food Production
  • Water Productivity in Agriculture
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