Conservation - Reducing Water Usage
Impending water crisis in India and comparing clean water standards among developing and developed nations - A overview of the issues surounding India's water scarcity
Posted on 03 Apr, 2012 03:09 PMThe two concepts required for analysis of water as regards human consumption are availability and access. Availability refers to the physical presence of adequate water supplies and is influenced by physical and environmental factors.
People of Nuapada district in Odisha build a stop dam themselves - Roundup of audio updates from CGNet Swara (Sep 2011 to Feb 2012)
Posted on 03 Apr, 2012 02:57 PMPeople get together to build a stop dam themselves
The people of Khariar road town in Odisha have long requested a check dam across the river Jonk. Khuturam Sunani describes how they have now begun constructing it through shramadaan.
The what, why and how of environmental flows: Presentations made during an IUCN training programme in Kathmandu, 2011
Posted on 03 Apr, 2012 01:42 PMBagmati River at Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal (Photo: IUCN\Stefano Barchiesi)
4th IDSAsr annual seminar on Water security & Climate Change: Challenges and Strategies, Guru Arjan DevInstitute of Development Studies, November 2-4, 2012, Amritsar
Posted on 30 Mar, 2012 01:35 PMOrganizer: Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies (GADIDS)
Venue: Conference Hall of Guru Nanak Bhawan
Guru Nanak Dev University,
Amritsar-143005
Description:
GADIDS, Amritsar has planned to organize its 3rd annual seminar on the theme Water Security and Climate Change: Challenges and Strategies. Registration is you open for the seminar. You are requested to contribute your well research paper on any of the sub theme of the seminar. Also gave wide publicity to the event.
Supreme Court order in February 27, 2012 on the interlinking of rivers project A statement and an appeal by concerned citizens to think of all the implications
Posted on 29 Mar, 2012 06:37 PMThe full statement is as follows -
We, the signatories to this statement, wish to record our utmost concern at the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s judgment of 27 February 2012 on the Inter-Linking of Rivers Project (ILR), on the following grounds:
Corporatising water: India's draft National Water Policy - A document published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Posted on 21 Mar, 2012 12:17 PMThe document argues that the latest example of this is India’s Draft National Water Policy (NWP) circulated by the Ministry of Water Resources. At first glance, it appears as if the policy has been taking a holistic approach to water resources management, with a clear recognition of India’s water woes.
Thousands of students across India test groundwater for fluoride on March 22, 2012
Posted on 21 Mar, 2012 09:17 AMImpact report of watershed development programme in Ayyannapalem village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 11:59 AMAuthor : Kotikala Chandrasheakar
Name of the watershed: Ayyannapalem
Name of the Mandal: Bollapalli
District: Guntur
Draft National Water Policy (2012) fails to take into account the multiple, complex problems and issues relating to water in India says M S Vani
Posted on 18 Mar, 2012 05:49 PMGuest post by: M S Vani
Perusing the draft, one comes across all the ‘right’ concepts, words liberally sprinkled throughout the document, describing the resource:-
- Natural resource
- Hydrological cycle
- Ecological needs of rivers
- Climate change
- Sources pollution
and our intended response to it :-
Peace by peace cotton project' is bucking the trend in chemical farming to revive cotton fields in Odisha
Posted on 17 Mar, 2012 11:02 PMArticle and Image Courtesy : One World South Asia
Author : Madhusmita Hazarika