Political
"In search of old ideas" - A discussion of the draft national water policy 2012, by Jayanta Bandopadhyay in The Telegraph
Posted on 22 Feb, 2012 05:05 PMAuthor: Jayanta Bandopadhyay
Article and image courtesy: The Telegraph
Prevalence of dental fluorosis and associated risk factors in school children from Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu - Paper published in the Indian Journal of Dental Research
Posted on 22 Feb, 2012 01:51 PMA total of 1800 children from all the nine blocks of Kanyakumari district from 6th to 10th standard were examined using type III examination. Dental fluorosis was present 15.8% of the study population and varied from as low as 1.4% to as high as 29.4% in different areas. There was a significant difference in dental fluorosis levels between rural and urban residents.
New water policy more contentious; least helpful in tackling existing issues
Posted on 22 Feb, 2012 12:34 PMAuthor : Dr. Arvind Kumar
ACMGIDF invites applications for Project Executive-Livelihood, Jaipur, Rajasthan - Apply by February 26, 2012
Posted on 22 Feb, 2012 09:23 AMContent courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
ACM GIDF works across India, and integrate in all our projects all four key sectors that lead to growth – education, health, livelihood and Environment.
IMaCS invites applications for Consultant – Monitoring and Evaluation, Delhi - Apply by February 24. 2012
Posted on 22 Feb, 2012 09:03 AMContent courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
IMaCS has been engaged by an UN Agency to provide Technical financial and human resource support to various programmes and operation.
Lok Shakti Samiti invites applications for State Facilitator (Total Sanitation Campaign), Raipur, Chhattisgarh - Apply by Februaray 25, 2012
Posted on 22 Feb, 2012 08:53 AMContent courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
Description:
Lok Shakti Samiti (LSS) is a non-governmental organisation working on social development issues in rural areas of tribal belt of Chhattisgarh, India. In collaboration with WaterAid (UK), LSS has been intensively working in Raigarh district on community rights for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), since 2004.
How valuable are environmental health interventions? - Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India - Paper published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
Posted on 21 Feb, 2012 06:11 PMThe paper informs that a number of epidemiological studies on the benefits of water and sanitation interventions have shown that diarrhoea can be reduced by 30–50%.
Rural water access: Governance and contestation in a semi-arid watershed in Udaipur, Rajasthan: A paper in EPW
Posted on 21 Feb, 2012 05:19 PMStudy area
This study is carried out in micro-watershed No.19, which comprises six villages in Jhadol tehsil of Udaipur district in Rajasthan. A minor irrigation project completed in 1980 serves these six villages
Rainfall, storage levels in reservoir and groundwater use
An ecological quantification of the relationships between water, sanitation and infant, child, and maternal mortality - Paper published in the Journal Environmental Health
Posted on 21 Feb, 2012 03:30 PMA number of studies have made associations between prevention of disease burden among populations by improving water supply, sanitation, hygiene and management of water resources and between poor water quality and disease burden.
Fellowship media briefing workshop : Tigers, tiger habitats and their conservation in India , CSE, April 25-26, New Delhi
Posted on 21 Feb, 2012 09:17 AMOrganizer: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Description:
India hosts a majority of the world’s tiger population -- about 1,700 tigers, according to the May 2011 census. But a combination of threats is holding this meagre number to ransom, and poaching and trade in wildlife parts is just one of them. Shrinking habitat, conflicts with humans, growing tourist interference… the tiger has a lot to contend with. Policy intervention, protective legislations and international pressure have not made much of a difference, and if action is not taken effectively, the tiger will dwindle towards extinction.