Courses, Toolkits, Manuals, Guides and Handbooks

Water Quality Management Course - Not just a training program
In this article, we will understand how the WQM course is continuing to influence the needs of learners that come from diverse backgrounds. The course model also offers core insights to many others who would like to engage in a virtual training program. Posted on 16 Dec, 2022 01:05 PM

The journey of the Water Quality Management (WQM) Course into a movement with over 1500 WaterQualityChampions’ (WQC) across the country is curious and exciting. The course is enabling participants into “Water Quality champions” that even the course creators did not anticipate. Hence, it demands a closer introspection - into what went behind.

During a WQM course, a field team member from INREM facilitating a demonstration
Workshop: Biosand Water Filter (JalKalp) Technology
Posted on 13 Oct, 2022 06:39 PM

About the workshop

Workshop to build capacities on the biosand filter (Image source: Sehgal Foundation)
Certified Water Quality Management course by INREM Foundation
Posted on 26 Jun, 2022 05:59 PM

About the course:

This course on Water Quality Management (WQM) is being organized by INREM Foundation along with Water Quality Network. The course is aimed at equipping participants towards the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) programme of Govt of India. The course is executed in English and Hindi languages.

Grappling with disaster risks
A handbook on India’s disaster management Posted on 21 Feb, 2022 08:18 PM

Given its geographic and climatic diversity, India is exposed to a variety of hazards that have forced its governments and communities to address risk, adapt to threats, and improve disaster resilience.

A flood damaged road alongside the River Alaknanda in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand on June 18, 2013 (Image: AFP Photo/ Indian Army; Flickr Commons)
Training course: Gravity Pipe Networks (GPNs) using EPANET
Water and Livelihoods Foundation (WLF) offers this training course to develop optimal plans of GPNs using EPANET
Posted on 21 Feb, 2022 03:48 PM

About the course: 

Meandering and babbling natural streams and springs through hills offer a beautiful scenery. But the same could also be a source of despair for the tribal farmers in the neighborhoods, if their crops wither due to lack of life-saving irrigation water.

Kudrati kheti (natural farming) - A manual in Hindi
Farming the natural way - going back to the age old traditions and practices Posted on 01 Sep, 2021 05:04 PM

This manual (third edition) in Hindi developed by Rajinder Chaudhary on natural farming, also known as organic, zero budget or alternative farming, is an attempt to spread awareness among Indian farmers about the above sustainable agriculture methods.

Online Water Quality Management Course
This online course on Water Quality Management (WQM) is being organized by INREM Foundation along with Water Quality Network. The course is aimed at equipping participants towards the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) program.
Posted on 26 Jul, 2021 04:58 PM
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Understanding Atal Bhujal Yojana through the program guidelines
The program envisages promoting panchayat led groundwater management and behavioural change with a primary focus on demand-side management. Posted on 10 Aug, 2020 03:59 PM

Groundwater fulfills the drinking water requirements of nearly 85% and 50% of the rural and urban Indian population, respectively. 65% of the total irrigated area utilizes groundwater. It also caters to the water needs of the industrial sector in India.

Community participation is expected to facilitate bottom-up groundwater planning process to improve the effectiveness of public financing and align implementation of various government programs on groundwater in the participating states (Image: Water Alternatives, Flickr Commons)
ACWADAM's online foundation course on groundwater management
Given the COVID-19 crisis and travel restrictions, ACWADAM will continue in its conduct of the foundation course on groundwater through an adapted online version.
Posted on 05 Jul, 2020 05:25 PM

The timetable of the event has been attached below.

Developing an effective participatory groundwater monitoring program at village level
Issues in groundwater management and recharge have been dealt with in a series of booklets as a part of the MARVI project. Posted on 16 May, 2020 03:52 PM

The ‘Managing Aquifer Recharge and Sustaining Groundwater Use through Village-level Intervention’ (MARVI) project is being undertaken since February 2012 with the overall aim to improve the security of irrigation water supplies and enhance livelihood opportunities for rural communities in India.

One of the Bhujal Jankaars measuring groundwater levels manually (Image: Basant Maheshwari)
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