Climate and Weather

Organizer: Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies (IDSAsr), Amritsar

Venue: Conference hall, Guru Nanak Bhawan, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

Topics:

• Challenges and Opportunities for Water Security: An overview
• Regional Water Security, Resource Use & Allocation

This is a review of KWDT-2 report analysing how it has failed to protect the long term sustainable productivity and ecology of the river basin. It has also failed to understand the water allocations done by previous KWDT-1. KWDT-2 also negated the earlier KWDT-1 allocations at the same time categorically stating that it cannot change water use allocations of previous award.

Clean Energy & Energy Security

Organizer: Engineering Staff College of India

Venue: Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited, Hyderabad

Today is 22 February, 10 days afterwards, and there is not a single reply to it.

Responding to increasing concerns over climate change, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) have jointly developed an eight-week blended distance learning program on “Science and Policy of Climate Change”. This will be conducted for Asia-Pacific region from 8th April to 8th June, 2011.

 Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on the average annual rainfall and rainwater harvesting, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Water Resources, said that rain water is harvested through surface storages and recharge of ground water.The total storage capacity created through major and medium projects is around 225 BCM. The data on quantum of rainwater harvested through groundwater recharging is 433 BCM. Ministry of Water Resources does not maintain the data on quantum of water harvested due to manmade structures separately.It is estimated that the water utilized in 2010 is about 681 BCM.

Organizers:

• Women's Earth Alliance
• Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group

Venue: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) training center, Gorakhpur

Content Courtesy: Centre for Science and Environment

• Decentralised Wastewater Treatment & Reuse Policy Workshop
  
  Date: 3rd - 4th March, 2011
  
  CSE is organising a two day programme focusing on how urban areas can establish decentralised wastewater treatment  system (DWWT) particularly in unsewered areas that would facilitate recycling and reuse of water.

 This book is being read by wider professionals all over the globe with interest and many people have also offered their review on the same.  Keeping in view the activities of India Water Portal, we feel that it may be of interest for the portal readers to know more about this.  One such review of the book written by Prof. D. T. Shete, Former Director, Water Resources Engineering and Management Institute, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara is attached herewith.

The Centre for Atmospheric Sciences(CAS), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is organising this programme which is sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Forty candidates will be selected from all over the country. The programme will be held at CAS, IIT, Delhi.

Eligibility:

M.Sc./M.Tech. degree in Physics/ Meteorology/ Atmospheric Sciences/ Geophysics/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Oceanography / Computer Science with overall good academic record with at least one year working experience/ exposure relevant to the field of Atmospheric Science. Those who have Ph.D. Degree and working on monsoon related problems will be given preference.

Programme period: 27th June–20th July 2011

Age limit: Less than 35 years as on 31st March 2011.