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The rape of Goa - A photo documentary by Rajan Parrikar (2008)
Posted on 17 May, 2011 05:41 PMGoa, the last remaining redoubt of the pleasant, civilized life in India, now faces environmental ruin from indiscriminate construction and exploitation of its natural resources. Concomitant with this ruin is the imminent erasure of its sui generis identity and culture wrought by the uncontrolled influx of migrants from all over India. First released in May 2008, this documentary was screened in towns and cities all across Goa.
Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) produces more sugarcane with less water and chemical inputs - Videos by AgSRI
Posted on 17 May, 2011 04:38 PM
CSE is looking for Assistant Coordinator and Senior Researcher - Environment Impact Assessment based at New Delhi
Posted on 17 May, 2011 04:12 PMThe Centre for Science and Environment, an established research and advocacy institute needs Assistant Coordinator and Researcher for its Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Social Impact Assessment (SIA) training programme and various activities in South Asia.
Peri-urban water security in a context of urbanization and climate change - A review of concepts and relationships by SaciWaters
Posted on 17 May, 2011 04:05 PMIt is a part of the peri-urban water security project discussion paper series that aims at having a collection of research papers relevant to the concepts and processes involved in the project that represent preliminary ideas circulated to encourage discussion and comments.
Though the relevant literature is cited at many places, this is not intended to be a literature review per se, but instead seeks to develop a shared framework to identify a set of common issues and questions that merit investigation.
The paper argues that peri-urban can be better understood in terms of its characteristics - a mix of agricultural and non-agricultural land uses, flows of goods, services and resources between villages and urban centers and a social profile that is very heterogeneous and in a state of flux. All these impact upon the local natural resource base, creating particular environmental and natural resource management problems that are often beyond the scope of urban or rural governments alone and require innovative ways of being addressed.
International WaterCentre Water Leader Scholarships 2012 - Apply by 1st August 2011
Posted on 17 May, 2011 03:55 PMThe International WaterCentre (IWC) awards scholarships to a small number of excellent candidates who are accepted into the IWC Master of Integrated Water Management (MIWM). Scholarships are awarded to applicants who clearly demonstrate potential to become water leaders of the future.
The Masters program is custom-designed by leading practitioners and academics from a range of disciplines from four leading universities in Australia.
Varunyantra to tap skywater: A Bhagirath effort
Posted on 17 May, 2011 03:51 PM
Although there is enough water in the world, it is rarely in the right place at the right time in the right quantity and quality.
Cloud seeding for India - An effective weapon to fight drought , saysProf. Shivaji Rao
Posted on 17 May, 2011 03:51 PMThe more the water wealth of a nation the higher will be the opportunities for achieving high rates of progress in the fields of agriculture production and industrial growth that help in promoting economic wealth, employment opportunities and higher standards of living. Hence the advanced countries are constantly upgrading their water resources by harnessing not only all the ground and surface waters but also by tapping a renewable, virtually unlimited and unexploited sky water resource in the atmosphere in the form of innumerable clouds. Enlightened scientists, bureaucrats, industrialists and statesmen in about 50 countries are frequently using cloud seeding operations for over 40 years for various purposes like
Groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh - Time to address real issues – A report by Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy
Posted on 17 May, 2011 02:16 PMWith 49 per cent of the total irrigation from groundwater, the state of Andhra Pradesh accounts for 5.3 per cent of the net groundwater irrigated area in the country.
Bioremediation, its applications to contaminated sites in India - A state of the art report by Ministry of Environment and Forests
Posted on 17 May, 2011 12:42 PMBioremediation is emerging as an effective innovative technology for treatment of a wide variety of contaminants and is an invaluable tool box for wider application in the realm of environmental protection.
Bioremediation approach is currently applied to contain contaminants in soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediments including air. These technologies have become attractive alternatives to conventional clean-up technologies due to relatively low capital costs and their inherently aesthetic nature.
It includes phytoremediation (plants) and rhizoremediation (plant and microbe interaction). Rhizoremediation, which is the most evolved process of bioremediation, involves the removal of specific contaminants from contaminated sites by mutual interaction of plant roots and suitable microbial flora.
The report documents the existing knowledge for the benefit of regulators, who evaluate the quality of environment and for practitioners, who have to implement and evaluate remediation alternatives at a given contaminated site. It is expected to provide basic understanding of the bioremediation mechanisms to the reader. The technical descriptions provided in this document concentrate on the functioning mechanisms: phytosequestration, rhizodegradation, phytohydraulics, phytoextraction, phytodegradation, and phytovolatilization.