Karnataka

Themes: Water Plumbing Sanitation & Health-Issues & Challenges

Organizer: The Bangalore Film Society

Venue: Visthar, Bangalore

Deascription: The Bangalore Film Society presents a 1-day film festival on Food Sovereignty and Food Security on May 1st at the Festival of Just Peace, Visthar Bangalore.

SIMPLE & EFFECTIVE Method to increase WATER to east flowing RIVERS of SOUTH INDIA.

WESTERN GHATS are the mighty walls created by the nature.

This article by Collaborative for the Advancement of the Study of Urbanism through Mixed Media (CASUMM) presents the case of Bellandur Tank in Bangalore city and highlights how rapid unplanned urbanisation has led to the destruction of one of the biggest water bodies in Bangalore Urban district.

The tank provided sustenance for people who lived in the areas surrounding it and provided water for irrigation, household purposes such as drinking, washing and cleaning, besides providing ample supply of fish. The tank was thus an integral part of the society and had a relationship with the communities residing around the tank.

Organizer: CiSTUP and a few folks at praja.in

Venue: Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, Civil Engineering Dept, IISc, Bangalore

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. The panelist who have confirmed are:

For Immediate Release

Underwriters Laboratories Certifies Kimberlite Chemicals for Health Effects in Drinking water
Kimberlite Chemicals Becomes First Indian Company to Earn UL
Certification for Antiscalant Water Treatment Chemicals

Bangalore, India, April 14 2010 – Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global leader in drinking water quality and safety, today announced that Kimberlite Chemicals India Pvt.  Ltd., received UL certification for its antiscalant water treatment chemicals. Kimberlite’s antiscalant water treatment chemicals will now bear the UL Classified Water Quality Mark, indicating certification to ANSI/NSF Standard 60 for health effects.

UL launched its drinking water product certification program in India in 2009 and has been working with a number of Indian companies on a broad range of products including disinfection and oxidation chemicals, coagulants, drinking water treatment units, gaskets, butterfly valves, sediment filter cartridges and activated carbon.  Kimberlite, a renowned company known for its world-class technology product and service in the field of specialty chemicals and coatings, is the first Indian manufacturer to be certified through UL’s water program for antiscalant water treatment chemicals.

UL’s certification of Kimberlite’s antiscalant chemicals provides verification that these chemicals have been independently tested and validated to meet both industry standards for health effects in drinking water as well as UL’s rigorous certification requirements. Antiscalant chemicals are used to protect reverse osmosis (RO) membrane life and are used in industrial RO purifiers.

These two documents enlist best practices in urban water management, based on the experiences of Biome Solutions, and are relevant for households in a gated layout/group housing complex, where the water sourcing, supply and management is in the hands of the layout and there is no connection to the the local water supply authority.

Goverment of India

Ministry of Agriculture

Lok Sabha

Unstarred Question No 2961

Answered On 16.03.2010

New Farm Practice for Rice Crops 2961 .
    
J. Shantha

Will the Minister of Agriculture be pleased to state:-

1. Whether a new farm practice has been developed in Karnataka to increase the productivity of land, water and other farm inputs in the cultivation of rice crops;
2.  If so, the details thereof;
3. Whether this practice has incorporated some innovative features over the conventional method of flooded rice cultivation;
4. If so, the details thereof;
5. Whether the existing problems like water scarcity high energy usage and environmental degradation would adequately be taken care of and crop yield increased substantially by this new farming practice; and
6. If so, the details thereof?