Uttar Pradesh

"Per capita water availability to reduce by 2025", says Droplets: e-Newsletter from Everything About Water - August 2011
Per capita water availability in India to reduce by 2025.
Everything About Water
Posted on 17 Sep, 2011 06:18 PM

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Every thing about water

Highlights from the August edition of Droplets e-newsletter published by the Everything About Water

  • India: Per capita water availability to reduce by 2025
  • WHO: New guidelines for safer drinking water supply systems
WWF invites applications for the post of Coordinator, Living Ganga Programme, Kanpur – Apply by September 20, 2011
Posted on 05 Sep, 2011 05:29 PM

Content courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia

 

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World Wildlife Fund-India (WWF-India) has been working towards conservation and wise management of river systems and wetlands in India for over a decade now. The areas of intervention have been freshwater ecosystems, connected habitats, freshwater species and balanced use of water resources for livelihoods. 



Economic and Political Weekly 2011: Review of Agriculture (June 25 - July 8, 2011)
Review of AgricultureHalf a century ago, scholars first noticed that small farms in India demonstrated a higher per acre productivity than large farms. In the 21st century these farms still produce more per acre than large farms. We should be looking at making the most of the higher agricultural productivity on small landholdings.
Where earlier seed varieties were seen as a crucial input for Indian Agriculture, it is now water that has become a critical resource because of its over-exploitation and wasteful use on crop land. In the search for better ways to harvest and use water resources, there has been tendency to hark back to the past and look at small and localized systems, but we forget that the demographic settings then were different and we do not acknowledge the fact that the institutional settings of the time made for inequitable access.
AS the government grapples with modifying the 2002 National Water Policy, an independent effort is made to formulate a draft that looks at water use in all areas in a holistic manner. These and other articles in this review look at different aspects of Indian Agriculture.
Gautam Pingle
R S Sidhu
Sukhpal Singh
A S Bhullar
Arun Chaturvedi
N G Patil
S N Goswami
J Challa
P K Joshi
Prabhakar Tamboli
Ramesh Chand
P A Lakshmi Prasanna
Aruna Singh. K Palanisami
Kadiri Mohan
Shri Krishan
Ramaswamy Iyer
K R Kakumanu
S Raman
Posted on 28 Jul, 2011 02:25 PM

 

Issue: VOL 46 No. 26 and 27 Jun 25 - July 08, 2011

Review of Agriculture

Irrigation in Telangana: The Rise and Fall of Tanks

Gautam Pingle
Geomorphic study for regeneration of aquatic ecosystem in Bareilly – An article in Geospatial World
This article in Geospatial World deals with a geomorphic study of low elevated wards in Bareilly.
Zubairul Islam
Posted on 17 Jul, 2011 10:53 AM

It indicates that the aquatic ecosystem of an area disappeared due to unplanned development of agro ecosystems and human settlements. This area was earlier covered with ponds, wetlands and ox-bow lakes. Now, during the rainy season, inhabitants of these wards face severe problem of water logging and pollution. 

DAS India is looking for environment specialists at Lucknow – Apply by August 5, 2011
Posted on 15 Jul, 2011 04:31 PM

DAS IndiaDAS India is an ISO 14001:2004 and NABET (under quality council of India QCI) certified consulting organization. For SDEM (Sustainable Development Environment Management) group, DAS India is interested in hiring 4 environment specialists fulfilling following criteria:

Job responsibilities:

  • Develop competencies in above sectors to contribute to EIAs
  • Assist in development of case specific TORs
  • Co-ordinate and monitor environment parameter testing
Uttar Pradesh Urban Sanitation Policy - Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission - Government of India (2010)
A policy document on the International Environment Law Research Centre site that highlights the poor sanitation situation in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the context of the National Urban Sanitation Policy launched in November 2008.
Government of India
Posted on 18 Jun, 2011 10:41 PM

The factors that lead to this poor sanitation situation in the city include:
‘A Scientists-People Partnership’ - National conference on science of climate change and earth’s sustainability: Issues and challenges, The Society of Earth Scientists, 12th – 14th September, 2011, Lucknow
Posted on 13 Jun, 2011 03:18 PM

The Society of Earth Scientists

Organizer: The Society of Earth Scientists

Venue: Lucknow

Topics:

  • Science of earth’s climate system and related process
  • Human impacts and natural resource management
  • Sustainable agricultural productivity, energy management
Guidelines for extending green revolution to eastern India - Document prepared by Department for Agriculture and Cooperation (2011)
There is an ongoing programme to extend the benefits of the green revolution to the eastern parts of the country.
Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (Ministry of Agriculture)
Posted on 27 May, 2011 07:50 AM

The states of Assam, Bihar, eastern U.P, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bengal, Orissa were allocated extra funds in the last year for this purpose.
Inclusion of a component relating to rural drinking water in the special package for drought mitigation strategies in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh - PIB release
The Union Cabinet approved an Additional Central Assistance of Rs.200 crore to provide drinking water in Bundelkhand during 2011-12.
Press Information Bureau
Posted on 22 May, 2011 05:09 PM

 This would be in addition to the other measures approved by the Cabinet on 19th November, 2009 under the special package for implementing drought mitigation strategies in Bundelkhand.

Ganga water quality trend - A report by Central Pollution Control Board (2009)
Water quality of the Ganga as it passes through various states is presented in this document.
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
Posted on 30 Apr, 2011 05:39 PM

The data has been collected over a period of many years from 39 water quality monitoring stations along the main river and 102 stations on its tributaries which were setup in 2008/09.

The study focuses on the parameters for dissolved oxygen, (DO), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and faecal coliforms (FC) as these indicate the biological health of the river. The period of study for the river Ganga is 1999-2008. The study finds that most of the water quality parameters studied do not meet the standards.

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