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The India Water Portal is looking for a Content Editor !!
Posted on 11 Feb, 2010 11:38 PMThe India Water Portal is an open, collaborative, web-based initiative, anchored by Arghyam, for sharing water management knowledge amongst practitioners, experts and the general public.
Station-wise daily rainfall data for all districts of Rajasthan from 1973-2008
Posted on 11 Feb, 2010 05:32 PM
The Water Resources Department of the Government of Rajasthan, has made available, station-level, daily rainfall data from 1973-2008, for all districts of Rajasthan, on its website.
In order to make this data of better value to end-users, the India Water Portal has extracted and made this data available in a district-wise spreadsheet format, which you can download with a single click.
While extracting the data, we observed some discrepancies in the master data on the website. These notes can be viewed here.
Conferernce on land-water resources, biodiversity and climate change, Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal
Posted on 10 Feb, 2010 01:38 PMThis is an International conference that intends to discuss the problems on water resources, biodiversity, climatic change and communicate the role of society in the present environmental scenario.
Organized by: The Bhopal School of Social Sciences,Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Government data on the losses in the floods and other related information in north Karnataka
Posted on 09 Feb, 2010 07:36 PMAttached here are a series of reports from the Government of Karnataka, providing details of the status and relief activities in the immediate aftermath of the floods in N.Karnataka. The reports contain the following information and more:
Detailed rainfall information for the time period of interest
Loss of human life and livestock,
Damage to houses,
Invitation to a film screening - "Water and a City", 13 February, 2010
Posted on 09 Feb, 2010 03:31 PMWater and a City - A documentary film about Bangalore’s relationship with water
Date : Feb 13th 2010
Time : 6.30 pm
Venue:
Centre for Film and Drama
5th floor Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road
Bangalore 500052
Phone: 22356263
Worldwide SAVE LOKTAK LAKE Campaign
Posted on 09 Feb, 2010 03:06 PMNortheast Centre for Environmental Education and Research (NECEER), Imphal is going to organise a Worldwide Save Loktak Lake Campaign at 20 cities in 3 continents on 7th March 2010. The campaign is an attempt to create awareness about the threats and need for conserving this natural heritage of Manipur.
Film Screening - Water and a City, Bangalore
Posted on 09 Feb, 2010 12:56 PMWater and a City - A documentary film about Bangalore’s relationship with water
Venue:
Centre for Film and Drama
5th floor Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road
Bangalore 500052
Phone: 22356263
Analysis of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam in the Amazon rainforest
Posted on 07 Feb, 2010 10:34 PM 
Photo from International Rivers
Nature Conservancy a decade ago estimated the value of earth’s ecosystem services to be at least $33trillion a year. At the time of estimation it was close to gross world product. Something about that figure wasn’t quite clear and I always wondered how they managed to come up with the number.
Preservation restoration or otherwise of the existing tanks in Bangalore metropolitan area - Report of the Lakshman Rau expert committee (1986)
Posted on 05 Feb, 2010 10:00 PMThis report of the Lakshman Rau Expert Committee released in 1986, provides detailed notes about all the tanks in Bangalore's metropolitan area, provides general proposals for their preservation including specific recommendations in regard to some important tanks, and concludes with suggestions relating to implementation of the recommendations.
The lost lakes of Bangalore - A documentation contest for schools and colleges
Posted on 04 Feb, 2010 01:25 PM
The Lost Lakes of Bangalore is a project to document Bengaluru’s many tanks and lakes which have vanished with urbanization and growth. As part of this project India Water Portal is organizing a contest for schools and colleges to document this aspect of Bengaluru's history.