Political
Guidance notes for continuous water supply (24-7): A guide to project preparation, implementation and appraisal- A report by Water and Sanitation Program
Posted on 06 Sep, 2012 09:39 PMThis report by Water and Sanitation Program is a guidance notes meant for governments, municipal administrations and water utilities that are considering of converting their water distribution services from intermittent to continuous (24-7)
Community participation in South Asian sanitation - A paper published in Public World
Posted on 05 Sep, 2012 04:06 PMThis paper published in collaboration with Public World (London) focuses on the poor sanitation situation in South Asia, which has the highest proportion of people practising open defecation and argues that improvement in sanitation is one of the most important goals that countries i
Conservation at crossroads – Science, society and the future of India’s wildlife – A talk by Ghazala Shahabuddin
Posted on 05 Sep, 2012 03:48 PMGhazala Shahabuddin’s recent talk on 30th August, 2012 at IIC, New Delhi focused on the malaise underlying India’s dominant conservation paradigm, which is for the most part one of top-down control and exclusion.
"Delhi gets its first solar water purification plant" - Roundup of the week's news (27 August - 2 September 2012)
Posted on 04 Sep, 2012 11:50 PMDelhi gets its first solar water purification plant
Third National Research Conference on Climate Change, IISc, November 3-4, 2012, Bangalore - Submit abstracts by September 14, 2012
Posted on 04 Sep, 2012 08:30 PMOrganizers: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Centre for Science and Environment
Venue: Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
Indian Climate Research Network is a collaboration of Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. The main goal of the network is to enhance capacity for climate research and action in India.
Arsenic content in ground and canal waters of Punjab – A paper by Punjab Agricultural University
Posted on 04 Sep, 2012 01:09 PMConservation as if democracy mattered - The first Ravi Sankaran Memorial Lecture, by Mahesh Rangarajan, Bangalore, 2 August 2012
Posted on 04 Sep, 2012 10:13 AMThis article presents the first Ravi Sankaran Memorial Lecture, by Mahesh Rangarajan, Bangalore, 2 August 2012: "Conservation as if Democracy Mattered". The lecture forcefully argues that the goals of both democracy and wildlife conservation are linked, and need to be addressed together.
Ion Exchange services launches 'containerized water treatment plant' on a rental basis for industries and institutions
Posted on 03 Sep, 2012 09:51 AMIon Exchange Services Ltd (IESL), the leader in providing services for any make and type of water and waste water treatment plants, announced the launch of ‘Containerized Water Treatment Plant’ on rental basis for supply of treated water.
Report on the "National level workshop on appropriate toilet technologies", organised by Gramalaya, Arghyam and UNICEF at Trichy, Tamil Nadu, between 9-11 May 2012
Posted on 02 Sep, 2012 07:00 PMCurrent evidence has shown that a large population of people in India practice open defecation and do not use toilets even when available.
Evaluation of NREGA wells in Jharkhand - A study of the construction of wells and the resultant creation of income-generating assets published in the Economic and Political Weekly
Posted on 02 Sep, 2012 08:04 AMNREGA is widely criticized to be a program that creates 'empty' work for the sole purpose of employment, and does not extend itself to developing assets. This criticism is often made without supporting data, as there has been little research on asset creation through NREGA.