India
Invitation to the course on 'Urban Lakes and Wetlands', INTACH, New Delhi
Posted on 17 Apr, 2014 12:57 PMGet more information of the course on 'Urban Lakes and Wetlands'.
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Call for Entries for the 'Quotes from the Earth' Environmental Film Festival 2014, Toxics Link & India International Centre, New Delhi
Posted on 11 Apr, 2014 04:09 PMGet more information on 'Quotes from the Earth'.
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Invitation to the monsoon school on 'Perspectives on Environment, Society and Well-Being', Kalpavriksh, Pune, Maharashtra
Posted on 09 Apr, 2014 02:40 PMGet more information on the event.
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AAP, BJP or Congress: Which party will end our water woes?
Posted on 08 Apr, 2014 12:58 PMWater had a big role to play last year due to weather-related events- first, the floods in Uttarakhand followed by three consecutive cyclones in South India and hailstorms in Maharashtra.
More data please...The changing landscape of open water data
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 08:10 AMData related to the water sector although available online was very scattered and inaccessible and did not reveal much on its own when India Water Portal (IWP), Arghyam started the data project with the aim of providing better ways of accessing and representing data related to the water sector. The process led to some interesting learnings, revelations and very positive outcomes.
Urban water supply maps
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 06:43 AMCleaning, analysis and contextualizing the available data
IPCC alarms India of a severe water shortage
Posted on 06 Apr, 2014 06:23 PMIPCC releases its climate change report, alarms India of severe water shortage
Indian Railways gets notice for supplying poor quality water
Posted on 06 Apr, 2014 06:13 PMHC issues notice to Indian Railways over poor quality water
Changing pattern: Rainfall maps
Posted on 06 Apr, 2014 03:39 AMRainfall maps for the period of 100 years were created to see the changing patterns and differences over time.
Data used
MET data was used to generate the maps for every year.
Mapping drought for 100 years
Posted on 06 Apr, 2014 02:15 AMThe Indian Meteorlogical Department (IMD) defines drought as ‘the consequence of a natural reduction in the amount of precipitation over an extended period of time, usually a season or more in length, often associated with other climatic factors (viz.
