Tamil Nadu

In Kokkarapati village (TN), dilapidated public toilets cause difficulty, disease and humiliation.

Organizer: The Sugarcane Breeding Institute

Venue: Dharmapuri district Co-op Sugar Mills, Palacode, Dharmapuri

Description:

The Sugarcane Breeding Institute (of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Coimbatore is organizing a "Schedule irrigation, Save water" campaign in Dharmapuri district. The event is being organized under 'Farmers' Participatory Action Research Programme (FPARP)'.

  The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy draws on the experiences of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective (WC), a state-level federation of women’s groups from 1,500 villages, in the context where communities all around the world are struggling to find ways to cope with changes affecting food and water security because of the phenomenon of climate change.

The report argues that many a times, new food and water security policies at the national and international level tend to be narrow, look at each of these issues in isolation and  undermine food and water security strategies adopted by individuals and households from marginal groups. Adaptation strategies to address food security focus almost exclusively on increasing agricultural production, while ignoring health and cultural aspects of the food being produced, and the role of agriculture as a means for rural viability.

Organizer: Industrial Waste Management Association (IWMA)

Venue: Chennai

Topics:

• Junior level (class VIII to X )
  
  • Recycling/Reuse of materials/waste products
  • Rain water harvesting
  • Methods to manage domestic garbage – starting from home
  • Water conservation

River Tamirabarani, a perennial river in Tirunelveli district of Tamilnadu. It originates from Pothigai hills in Western Ghat and drains at Punnaikayal afer running nearly 140 km. Its catchment gets rainfall during both SWM & NEM period. Ever year [or atleast once in every 18 month] the river is in full floods. During such period nearly 5000 cusec pure water is drained out to sea.

 The study attempted to understand the phenomenon of water contamination in the village by using GIS as a tool to locate and map water supply and sewage distribution systems in the village, in relation to human and animal dwellings, their wastes, sanitary practices and their connections with drinking water quality for a clearer understanding of the connections between these factors and possible

Organizer: CREATE-Organic Farming Agriculture Training and Research Centre

Venue: Adhirangam near Thiruthuraipoondi in Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu

Description:

G. Nammalvar, organic scientist, will preside over the festival. An exhibition will be organised in connection with the festival in which 47 traditional varieties of paddy will be displayed. Paddy varieties ranging from short, middle and long term with duration of 60 to 180 days will be displayed.

Content Courtesy: Rotary Madras South

Talk by Sekhar Raghavan, Rain Centre, at the Rotary Club of Madras South weekly meeting on 26 April 2011 on rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation - Part 1.

Organizers:

• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
• Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

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