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The 18th Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate Scientific Steering Group meeting, SPARC, Feb 2011, Pune
Posted on 07 Jan, 2011 02:20 PM
Organizer: Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC)
Venue: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India
Sanitation is sexy challenge : Winners announced
Posted on 07 Jan, 2011 10:54 AMArticle and Image Courtesy: Acumen Fund
Author: James Wu
The judges votes are in, and we’re excited to announce the winners for the Search for the Obvious Sanitation is Sexy challenge.
Films on Watershed Development and Dairying by Samaj Pragati Sahayog
Posted on 06 Jan, 2011 05:42 PMFor the last 2 decades Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS) has implemented watershed management projects in an attempt to integrate regeneration of natural resources with livelihood security of the poor
SPS has recently completed production of two films, which are now available for purchase.
Aquatech India 2011 - Innovative Technologies in Water Sustainability, March 02-04, 2011, Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai
Posted on 06 Jan, 2011 05:11 PMOrganizer:
- Amsterdam RAI B.V.
- Inter Ads-Brooks Exhibitions
Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai
“Water for Life” Best Practices Award
Posted on 06 Jan, 2011 04:01 PMForwarded to the portal by IISD
Content and Image Courtesy: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
The United Nations Office to Support the International Decade for Action “Water for Life” 2005-2015/UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) and the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) are pleased to invite you to submit your Best Practice for the 1st edition of the “Water for Life” Best Practices Award.
Water-Focused Adaptation to Climate Change - Online Courses
Posted on 06 Jan, 2011 03:06 PMContent and Image Courtesy: The Center for Sustainable Development
CSDi is announcing the January launch of a module of four online field courses on Adaptation to Climate Change. These courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, investigate appropriate solutions, develop full projects, launch and manage them.
Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination Society is organising a training on citywide sanitation planning, February 21-25, 2011 in Bangalore
Posted on 06 Jan, 2011 11:21 AMOrganizer: Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society
Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS), Bangalore
Benchmarking local government performance on rural sanitation in Himachal Pradesh - A learning note by WSP
Posted on 06 Jan, 2011 06:43 AMThis document deals with benchmarking local government performance on rural sanitation in Himachal Pradesh. To strengthen outcome-focused management of the rural sanitation sector in India, the Water and Sanitation Program’s (WSP) Global Scaling Up Sanitation Project, in partnership with the Government of Himachal Pradesh, developed a five-step process to monitor and benchmark performance on a monthly basis across all twelve districts in the state. Applied at the local government (district) level, this process has proven to be an effective approach, one that can improve reporting, monitoring, and performance.
Maharashtra Groundwater (Development and Management) Bill (2009)
Posted on 05 Jan, 2011 07:32 PMThe Maharashtra Groundwater (Development and Management) Bill, 2009 aims to facilitate and ensure sustainable and adequate supply of groundwater of prescribed quality, for various category of users, through supply and demand management measures, protecting public drinking water sources and to establish the State Groundwater Authority and District Level Authorities to manage and to regulate, with community participation, the exploitation of groundwater within the State of Maharashtra.
Climate change: Vulnerability and adaptation experiences from Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh – A report by SDC
Posted on 05 Jan, 2011 06:44 PMThis document discusses the process oriented programme of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) on Vulnerability Assessment (V&A) and Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change initiated in the semi-arid regions of India. The aims of this programme include strengthening the resilience of local communities to conditions of unfavourable weather, like adverse alterations in temperature and precipitation leading to the more frequent occurrence of drought and to use the experiences for policy development for climate change adaptation measures at various levels.
Over 60 per cent of the cultivated area in India is rainfed & unfavorable and uncertain rainfall patterns will seriously affect the food, drinking water and livelihood security of millions of children, women and men. Since the initiation of this project, the emphasis on proactive research on adaptation mechanisms has increased at the national level.
The present decade may mark the beginning of a new climate era, characterized by extreme and often unpredictable weather conditions and rise in sea levels. The greatest casualty of climate change will be food, water and livelihood security.