India
"Clean Your Act" - New book from CSE
Posted on 26 Feb, 2008 09:40 AMThe book would help households and institutions understand how to implement wastewater management. The book is priced at Rs.250/- only. CLEAN YOUR ACT is CSE's latest film on alternative ways to treat wastewater.
SAFEWAT: Water purification system by Population Services International
Posted on 18 Feb, 2008 11:15 AMMost drinking water projects are designed for supply of treated water through pipes to communities ; this requires investment on infrastructure such as pumps, overhead tanks, supply pipes, water purification equipment and after the project, maintenance staff and funds; while all this calls for planning, funding and time to execute, yet we cannot be certain that the water delivered remains uncon
National Consultation Meet on developing a Citizens Report on water and sanitation in New Delhi
Posted on 18 Feb, 2008 10:29 AMA National Consultation Meet was organized by WaterAid towards developing a Citizens Report on Water and Sanitation in India was held on the 12th January 2008 at New Delhi.
Issues about the bottled water industry
Posted on 15 Feb, 2008 09:52 AMBottled water as daily drinking water Thirty five years after Bisleri launched India's first bottled water, urban India is filled with numerous bottled water brands, some known, and some unknown. There are more then 250 brands and 2000 plus bottling plants across the country. The market for packaged drinking water is around Rs 10 billion and is growing at the rate of 40 percent per annum.
On the hidden cost of "free" water
Posted on 09 Feb, 2008 07:36 PMAccording to David Foster, it is the cost of 'free' water :
NDMA guidelines for urban flood disaster management: Early warning systems installed in Mumbai
Posted on 04 Feb, 2008 04:06 AMTwo press releases on the work being done by the National Disaster Management Authority regarding early warning systems for flooding, guidelines for management of urban flooding and more : http://www.pibmumbai.gov.in/scripts/detail.asp?releaseId=E2008PR58
Call for volunteers to help with building a photo repository
Posted on 22 Jan, 2008 10:36 PMIts an obviously useful thing for India Water Portal to have a photo repository with a free-use-with-acknowledgement license of some sort. But we have not had the opportunity to think through all the details on this. What is the best way to create this (Google Picasa, Flickr or some other tool) ? What are the details of the copyright that we would use. How would users upload their photos ?
A comprehensive book : "Rainwater Harvesting a New Concept to Utilize Rainwater and Secure the Future"
Posted on 19 Jan, 2008 10:53 PMRAINWATER HARVESTING A NEW CONCEPT TO UTILIZE RAINWATER AND SECURE THE FUTURE [BASED ON IS:1172-1993 & IS:3370-1965 (PARTS I & II)] by Er. Kollegal. K. Meghashyam
The only book published so far in India covering the following
Treating the subject Rainwater Harvesting in A Comprehensive Manner
A collection of short films on Ecosan
Posted on 13 Jan, 2008 11:54 AMA quick introduction to Ecosan
Eco-san in a city