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Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Newsletter for December 2010 : "82% rural India still lacks basic amenities"
Posted on 09 Dec, 2010 02:02 PMArticle and Image Courtesy: Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD).
Wildlife Wetlands Photography Contest & Young Environmentalists Programme
Posted on 09 Dec, 2010 10:48 AMWildlife Wetlands Photography Contest by WWF & Young Environmentalists Programme in association with Meluha-The Ferns ecotel, Hiranandani Gardens Powai, Mumbai-400076 on 2nd February 2011.
World Wetlands Day Photography Submissions
A brand new photography international competition is here, the WWF & YEPT in association with Meluha-The Ferns ecotel awards celebrates and recognizes the talents of photographers of all nationalities highlighting the great wealth and diversity of wetlands and wildlife on Planet Earth.
On the brink: Water governance in the Yamuna river basin in Haryana
Posted on 08 Dec, 2010 10:07 PMThis study attempts to develop a case study of the Western Yamuna Canal Command in Haryana with the purpose of developing a general picture of the institutional environment and arrangements related to water resource development and use in the State of Haryana. It is based on a review of water law, policy and administration and helps draw conclusions on whether the existing governance systems are meeting the current needs and suggests alternate options. The study has attempted to test the following hypothesis –
Preparation of a strategic plan for rural drinking water sector - DDWS discussion paper
Posted on 08 Dec, 2010 08:29 PMThis document is a discussion paper for the preparation of the strategic plan for the rural drinking water sector by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS).
India - Water resources management sector review - World Bank (1998)
Posted on 08 Dec, 2010 05:20 PMThis background report on Rural Water Supply and Sanitation by the World Bank, as a part of the Water Resources Management sector review, dwells on the policy and constraints of this sector, institutional and financial issues related to sector reform process and advocates an approach/plan to bring about radical reforms in the sector.
Glimpses of Ladakh - An exhibition of photographs, LEDeG, New Delhi
Posted on 08 Dec, 2010 04:15 PMOrganizer: Ladakh Ecological Development Group (LEDeG)
Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated December 08, 2010
Posted on 08 Dec, 2010 02:35 PMContent Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
- PHED Consultant, Gwalior (Specialist in Rural Drinking Water Programme & Water Quality)
UNICEF MP/Ma-Foi
Degraded and wastelands of India - Status and spatial distribution
Posted on 07 Dec, 2010 10:16 PMThis book by NAAS and ICAR builds-on and integrates work done by different institutes of the ICAR and the Department of Space in the area of degraded and wastelands in India. NRSA had already published the state level and country level information earlier. In addition, the nature and causes of the land degradation, and the degree and extent of damaged lands needed to be determined, so that appropriate management strategies could be designed and implemented in a defined time-frame to bring these lands to ‘productive health’.
Floods, Rainfall - News Roundup (23rd November to 7th December 2010)
Posted on 07 Dec, 2010 05:39 PMThe News Roundup over the last two weeks indicates reports of heavy rainfall in the state of Tamil Nadu, with deaths and destruction due to flooding, destruction of crops due to excessive rainfall. The news also reports of droughts in Orissa and rains in Maharashtra leading to destruction of crops.
Rainfall
- Rain continues to batter Tamil Nadu
- Rain plays havoc in three districts in Tamil Nadu
- Rain hits lignite mining in Tamil Nadu
- Continuing rain fury claims more lives in Tamil Nadu
- Rains continue to batter Puduchery, Karaikal in Tamil Nadu
- Rains lash Madurai: 10 dead, 73 houses damaged
- Five die in rain-related incidents in Tamil Nadu
Workshop on “Integrated Domestic Water Management”, Development Alternatives, New Delhi
Posted on 07 Dec, 2010 05:39 PMOrganizer: Development Alternatives (DA)