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Extreme weather warning!
Climate change is manifesting itself through modified rainfall patterns, extreme events and temperature fluctuations. What effect will these have on water, sanitation and health in India?
Chicu Lokgariwar
Posted on 11 Jul, 2013 04:04 PM

We sat in a plush climate-controlled room and deliberated climate change as the outside world collapsed around us..
The flooded Bagmati river
Call for abstracts, International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM - 2014), CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala
IWRM is the process of supporting the synchronized development and management of water, land and related natural resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 12:11 PM

Organisers

Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM)

Venue

Kozikhode, Kerala

About the symposium
IWRM 2014
Everything you need to know about water purifiers
Water purifiers contain different types of filters but what kind of contaminant does each type filter out? What should you look for when buying a water filter for your home?
Sumathi Sivam
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 11:00 AM

Pure, clean and safe drinking water isn’t available easily these days. Growing population, industrial development and environmental degradation are all causes for this. Given this situation, it becomes even more important for us to be aware of purification techniques and the available water purifiers in the market to ensure that our drinking water is of good quality. 
Filter of a water purifier
Toilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
Continuing open defecation in rural India, possible epidemic outbreak in Uttarakhand and draft bills on water laws are the highlights of this week’s news.
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 10:00 AM

Toilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India

The Planning commission has found that 73% of rural India practices open defecation despite many sanitation programmes encouraged by the government. The main reason for this is the unavailability of toilets.
Open defecation continues due to lack of toilets
International Conference- Political Economy of Water: A Social Work Response, College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai
An attempt to examine specific nuances of water scarcity and develop viable socialwork intervention strategies based on the experiences of successful intervention models
Posted on 08 Jun, 2013 12:48 PM

Organiser

College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai, lndia
College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan
Call for Entries- All India environmental journalism competition, Indo-German Environment Partnership
Awareness and knowledge about the state of the environment and sustainable solution is the key, hence a competition to acknowledge quality environmental journalism
Posted on 06 Jun, 2013 10:50 AM

Organisers 

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the Forum of Environmental Journalists in India (FEJI) and The Third Pole

About the competition
Call for Participation-Ecosystems for Life Media Fellowship, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), July-December 2013
An initiative to create a knowledge hub that will facilitate developing a shared vision in both India and Bangladesh, for effective governance of trans-boundary ecosystems
Posted on 04 Jun, 2013 04:11 PM

Ecosystems for life

Offered by 
Are solar pumps the start of an ever-green revolution or the end of our groundwater reserves?
Solar energy might be free but the equipment needed to tap into it is expensive. Can farmers benefit without falling into the subsidy trap?
Hemant Lamba
Soumitra Mishra
P Gopalan
Avinash Kishore
Rakesh Tiwary
Nidhi Tewari
Posted on 02 Jun, 2013 05:51 PM

Indian farmers depend on groundwater for irrigation but often, there is a shortage of electricity that is required to pump out this water. While diesel pumps are an option, they are costly to run. A better alternative is to tap into freely available solar power. However, this technology is quite expensive at present and effective subsidies and incentives drive its usage.
Offer of grant progamme for journalists - The Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP)
The HICAP grant programme seeks to encourage journalists from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region to report on climate change across the five sub-basins
Posted on 29 May, 2013 09:20 AM

HICAP

Organiser details
Call for research papers on 'Linking of Indian rivers: Boon or bane', National Seminar, G.S.Science Degree College, Belgaum, September 13-14, 2013
The seminar will provide a platform to assess the longstanding mega plan, 'River-linking project (RLP)' and the pros and cons to this issue
Posted on 28 May, 2013 08:40 AM

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