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Invitation to the 'Workshop on CSR for Sanitation', Gramalaya & UNICEF-Chennai, Tiruchirappali, Tamil Nadu
Gramalaya & Shanti Ashram with support from UNICEF-Chennai is organising the state-level workshop that will provide more insight and strategies to promote rural sanitation through CSR Initiatives.
Posted on 09 Apr, 2014 04:34 PM

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Workshop on CSR for Sanitation
Invitation to the monsoon school on 'Perspectives on Environment, Society and Well-Being', Kalpavriksh, Pune, Maharashtra
Kalpavriksh is organising a week long monsoon course on 'Perspectives on environment, society and well-being'.
Posted on 09 Apr, 2014 02:40 PM

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Kalpavriksh
AAP, BJP or Congress: Which party will end our water woes?
With only a few days left for the General Elections 2014, parties have come out with their manifestos, which features water predominantly. Which party has the best view and therefore the best chance?
Swati Bansal
Posted on 08 Apr, 2014 12:58 PM

Water 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.
Lok Sabha Elections 2014
Applications invited for the post of 'Project Coordinator', WatSan Fellowship Program 2014-15, SCOPE-Arghyam, Dharwad, Karnataka
SCOPE is looking for a competent person to work as 'Project Coordinator' who will be guided and supported by the Project Mentor and documentationist.
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 04:59 PM

About the opportunity: 
Applications invited for the 'WatSan Fellowship Program 2014-15', SCOPE-Arghyam, Dharwad, Karnataka
SCOPE in collaboration with Arghyam is announcing the second cycle of “Mentoring Young Professionals in Water and Sanitation Management” to train, mentor and place 15 Young Professionals.
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 04:54 PM

About the organisation:

SCOPE is a non-profit society headquartered at Dharwad, Karnataka, India. Started in the year 2000, SCOPE focuses on Rural Development in the areas of sustainable livelihood, natural resource management, improved quality of life and environment.
Water works: Keystone’s interventions in the Nilgiris
Keystone Foundation is best known for its work on issues of indigenous people in the Nilgiris. This article details its projects on water over the last two decades, from a water data perspective.
Balachander T
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 12:50 PM

A village of nine families bounded by a river on one side and thick forests on the other, lived here in Kilcoupe, an Irula hamlet in the Nilgiris. The women went out into the forest in search of water, a risky activity, as there was quite a large chance that they would encounter either a gaur or an elephant, sometimes even a leopard.
A stream flowing through a settlement and farms.
More data please...The changing landscape of open water data
After 2 years of its launching, the data project by the India Water Portal looks back at how government water data accessibility has changed since then
Nisha Thompson
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 08:10 AM

Data 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
Our experiences of building a visual map of water supply to Chennai from available data sets on water quality and water related infrastructure by NEERI are noted in this article.
Nisha Thompson
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 06:43 AM

Cleaning, analysis and contextualizing the available data
Chennai water supply map (summer)
Mapping Bangalore's water supply
The experience of building a visual water supply map of Bangalore city from available data sets by NEERI is noted in this article.
Nisha Thompson
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 06:14 AM

The construction of a visual map of water supply to Bangalore city from available data sets on water quality and water related infrastructure by NEERI as a part of the data project started by India Water Portal, Arghyam was a challenging task.

The visualisation process
Bangalore water supply base map
Mapping Mumbai's water supply
Our experience in building a visual water supply map of mumbai city from available data sets by NEERI is noted in this articles.
Nisha Thompson
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 06:09 AM

The construction of a visual map of water supply to Mumbai city from available data sets on water quality and water related infrastructure by NEERI as a part of the data project started by India Water Portal, Arghyam was a challenging task.

The visualisation process
Mumbai water supply base map
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