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December 16, 2022
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.
During a WQM course, a field team member from INREM facilitating a demonstration
September 9, 2022
Creating jobs while managing air quality
Highlights from a new report released by iFOREST
An old coal-fired power plant has been dumping vast quantities of ash out in the open for many years. (Image: Lundrim Aliu/ World Bank; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
September 5, 2022
Rivers of Bengaluru: A map-infographic reflects the rivers’ state
In an attempt to present a perspective on how rivers are used and abused, a map of the Bengaluru rivers illustrate how waste flows through natural river corridors, polluting the rivers and altering their status.
Vrishabhavathi river flow at Thagachguppe Bridge, Kumbalgodu (Image Source: Paani.Earth)
August 27, 2022
Himalayan lakes can potentially become long-term sinks of microplastics
Study looks at microplastic types in lakes of Ladakh
(Vinay Goel, Wikimedia Commons)
August 19, 2022
Polluted water, hitchhiking microbes and the hidden threat of cholera in India
Better access to clean water coupled with health education to bring about changes in behaviour are critical to prevent exposure to dangerous cholera bacteria that lurk in untreated waters.
The hidden threat of cholera in India (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)
August 11, 2022
India’s rivers in trouble due to high fertilizer load and heavy monsoons
This could lead to water quality crisis reinforcing the need for basin-specific management strategies
Around the world, more than a fifth of nitrogen released by human activity ends up in aquatic ecosystems (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
"New Water Policy by 2011" - Droplets
e-Newsletter of Everything About Water (March 2011)
Everything About Water
Posted on 09 Mar, 2011 05:46 PM

droplets

  • New Water Policy by 2011
    Nine years after the last document, work is on to put in shape a new water policy for India that will by the end of the year not just lay down a framework for the allocation of water but also take into account the impact of climate change and the remedial steps that need to be taken.
  • Japan will extend Rs 2,557 Crore aid
    Japan is to extend an aid of Rs. 2,557 crore to India for three projects through its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) window. The projects pertain to cleaning the river Yamuna in the national capital Delhi, crop diversification promotion in Himachal Pradesh and biodiversity conservation and greening in Tamil Nadu
Cremation customs pollute Ganges river - Video Volunteers
The Ganga in Allahabad is being polluted by the tradition of immersing cremated corpses
Video Volunteers
Posted on 03 Mar, 2011 01:28 PM

 

 
Lakes of Mahadevpura constituency of Bengaluru: Current status, changes in distribution and recommendations for restoration - A report by ATREE (2011)
This report is based on a survey of the lakes dating back to the 9th century AD in Mahadevpura constituency of Bengaluru.
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Federation of Resident Welfare Associations of Ward 150
Harini Nagendra
Ramesh Sivaram
S Subramanya
Posted on 02 Mar, 2011 09:18 AM

LakeThe lakes are now faced with the impacts of rapid urbanization and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been consolidating management of the majority of the city’s lakes under its control in the recent years. The survey dealt with 35 lakes in 10 sub chains in Mahadevpura. The report describes current status, studies changes in extent, and suggests steps for reclamation and conservation.

Co-processing of distillery spent wash concentrate in cement industry – Inviting comments on the draft guidelines by the Central Pollution Control Board (2010)
Co-processing of wastes in cement kiln has emerged as an environment friendly alternative disposal method in the recent years.
Central Pollution Control Board
Posted on 01 Mar, 2011 09:48 PM

In order to utilize the hazardous wastes generated in the cement industry the Central Pollution Control Board has come up with the draft guidelines (in February 2010) dealing with the co-processing of distillery spent wash concentrate in the cement industry.
Kerala's bill to penalise Coke - Relief and compensation for Plachimada factory victims
The Kerala government's decision to bring in a bill: Plachimada Coca-Cola Victims — Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal in the State Assembly yesterday is certainly an epic decision.
Devinder Sharma
Posted on 01 Mar, 2011 02:39 PM

 'The Bill proposes to get compensation from the company and to form a tribunal to provide time-bound compensation. The tribunal is to have a chairman, a technical member and an administrative member'.
"The continuing farce called conditional clearances" - Dams, Rivers and People
The SANDRP newsletter, February 2011
South Asia Network on Dams Rivers and People (SANDRP)
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 10:55 AM

Dams, Rivers & People
Proposed dumping site threatens water source - Video Volunteers
Chennai's main drinking water source will be affected if a proposed dumping site is built
Video Volunteers
Posted on 14 Feb, 2011 10:03 AM


Idol immersion activities and their management in water bodies in India - Paper presented at the National Seminar on Water and Culture (2007)
This paper discusses the programme that was initiated to shift the venue of immersion of Hindu idols in the city of Bhopal.
Anirudhe Mukharjee
Posted on 13 Feb, 2011 11:07 PM

This paper begins with an analysis of the rationale for idol immersion in Hinduism. Some of the reasons given by the author include water being able to disintegrate idols, the idea of purity of water etc.
Non-compliance of dam agencies in construction of hydro-electric projects in Himachal Pradesh - A photo-essay by SANDRP
This photo essay by SANDRP shows the violations of environment norms by 4 large Hydro-electric projects in Himachal Pradesh, regarding muck disposal and freshwater flows in rivers.
Himanshu Thakkar
Posted on 13 Feb, 2011 03:02 PM

 

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Design and manufacture very low cost portable solar powered water distiller (20 litres of water per day) - Dr. Vishwa Narayan of Theertham NGO
Show me a developing economy and I'll show you people who are dying for lack of clean, potable water
Vishwa Narayan
Posted on 10 Feb, 2011 01:21 PM

Dr. Vishwa Narayan, BE(Hons)EEE, MSEE, Ph.D. EE, CEO, Theertham - NGO, registered in Texas, USA, operating out of Bangalore and Chennai, India.

Goal: To design, manufacture, distribute and tech transfer very very low cost (Rs 5000) solar powered water distiller capable of distilling up to 20 liters of water per day, from dirty raw water including salt water.
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