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Opportunity for Effluent Treatment and Recycling Plant
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Wetland mapping and conservation: Use of GIS
The article is about the wetlands management issues that is surrounded by confusion and lack of proper water management policies, and how this can be tackled using GIS. Posted on 01 Mar, 2010 04:35 PM

Guest post by Sangeeta Deogawanka

February 2nd, designated as World Wetlands Day, has quietly slipped by with isolated events that speak of the lackadaisical attitude towards this rich ecosystem.

With 67,429 wetlands covering an area of about 5.5 million hectares, [Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), 1990], the wetland systems in India are diverse, found in high altitude cold zones, the hot and humid coastal areas or occurring as scattered inland wetland systems.

The Himalayan glaciers controversy - An article in Ground Report India
The article covers the four different aspects of the Himalayan glaciers controversy which had its origin in IPCC, 2007 report. Posted on 01 Mar, 2010 03:36 PM

Ground Report India

A huge controversy has been generated in recent days over the much quoted lines in the IPCC’s 2007 report: “Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate” (Working Group 2, page 493). We do need to question how a statement of such magnitude, without peer review, made its way into the IPCC report. That it was discovered,externally, more than two years later raises concerns about both the mindset and the weakness of the processes of the IPCC in checking and correcting information they collate, information that is so vital in the global debate. However, to question the credibility of the science of the global warming, supported as it is by a wealth of empirical evidence, or to question IPCC’s work, as is happening in some quarters, is gross exaggeration and sometimes driven by dubious and malafide intentions.

Geology of India - DN Wadia - Macmillan publishers (1919)
Geology is the science and study of the composition, structure, physical properties, dynamics and history of the liquid and solid materials/matter that constitutes the Earth. Posted on 01 Mar, 2010 12:10 AM

The Geology of India by DN Wadia, a geologist with the Geological Survey of India, is considered to be one of the most important and complete reference works available today on the subject.

Contents
1. Physical features, 2. Stratigraphy of India, 3. The Archaean System, 4. The Dharwar System, 5. The Cuddapah System, 6. The Vindhyan System, 7. The Cambrian System, 8. The Silurian, Devonian and Lower Carboniferous Systems, 9, 10. The Gondwana System, 11. The Upper Carboniferous and Permian Systems, 12. The Triassic System, 13. The Jurassic System, 14, 15. The Cretaceous System, 16. The Deccan Trap, 17. The Tertiary Systems, 18. The Eocene System, 19. The Oligocene and Lower Miocene Systems, 20. The Siwalik System - Middle Miocene and Lower Pliocene, 21-24. The Pleistocene System, 25. Physiography, 26. Economic Geology, 27. Geology and Stratigraphy of Kashmir; Index. Total contents - 398 pages.

The book divides India into three main geological divisions - the triangular plateau of the peninsula, the mountainous or the extra-peninsular region bordering India on the west north and east, and the Indo-gangetic plain extending from the valley of the Indus to the valley of the Brahmaputra in Assam. The desert region of western Rajasthan is considered to be a unique fourth category, as it combines characteristics of two of the three main divisions.

Community-led total sanitation newsletter for February 2010
The highlights of the CLTS February 2010 newsletter features the details about the film on CLTS in the East Garo Hills of Meghalaya. Posted on 26 Feb, 2010 05:43 PM

CLTS

Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD).

Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free).

Case studies - Water management by industry - CII-GBC national awards for Excellence in Water Management (2008)
A set of presentations that describe the work carried out by various companies to conserve and manage water- All finalists at the 5th CII-GBC National Award for excellence in Water Management, 2008 Posted on 26 Feb, 2010 04:49 AM

CII-GBC

 

Central Board for the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (Procedure for Transaction of Business) Rules - (1975)
A document that provides details on the procedural rules for the prevention & control of water pollution that need to be followed in section 63 of the Water ( Prevention & Control of pollution) Act made earlier in 1974. Posted on 25 Feb, 2010 04:24 PM

The following document provides information on the procedural rules suggested by the Central Government after consultation with the Central Board for the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution that need to be followed in the exercising of section 63 of the Water (Prevention and Control of pollution) Act made in 1974.

National seminar on increasing water efficiency in agricultural sector
A report on the National seminar on increasing water efficiency in agricultural sector organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : More crop per drop Posted on 22 Feb, 2010 05:24 PM

Press release from CII

CII

More Crop per drop: Need of Agriculture today

“The challenge of managing our water resources in a rational and sustainable manner will require action on many fronts and coordination across different sectors of the economy” said Mr. A K Bajaj, Chairman, Central Water Commission and Ex-Officio Secretary to the Government of India, at the inaugural session of the National Seminar on Increasing Water Efficiency in Agriculture Sector organized by CII. Setting the tone of the deliberations he particularly emphasized on the need to address the complex issue through collaborative efforts of the industry and the Government.

A historical study of a sugarcane farmer practicing organic cultivation with Conservation Agriculture (CA) based approaches: Newsletter from Professional Alliance for Conservation Agriculture - January 2010
Professional Alliance for Conservation Agriculture has brought out thier newsletter Conservation Agriculture Issue 11, Jan 2010. The newsletter covers A historical study of a sugarcane farmer practising organic cultivation with CA based approaches, Indigenous CA practices developed by Tribal farmers of Mizoram, A case study of Mewat project executed by PACA. etc Posted on 22 Feb, 2010 04:02 PM

Professional Alliance for Conservation Agriculture

Branches of ATREE (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment)
Details of branches & related information of ATREE ( Asoka Trust fro research in Ecology & the Environment) Posted on 22 Feb, 2010 12:43 PM

Branches Vol 6.4                              Branches@ATREE

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment                                               

 

The last quarter of 2009 seems to have been really productive as far as our work goes - a new office in Sikkim, the number of people we have had the opportunity to share ideas with - starting from the International Canopy Conference to lectures by visiting faculty, and moving on to some interesting workshops and events planned for 2010.