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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)
Gastro-enteritis rears its head due to contaminated water in Bangalore
S.Vishwanath on the recent incidence of gastro-enteritis due to possibly sewage contaminated water in Bangalore
S.Vishwanath
Posted on 30 Jan, 2008 01:46 AM

There is a spurt of gastro-enteritis in the city today. Residents think that it is the contaminated mains supply from the BWSSB that is the source of the gastroenteritis. The Bangalore water supply and Sewerage Board thinks it is water bought by residents from the private water tankers that is the cause but then seems to change its mind.
H2S Strip test and SODIS for testing water purity
H2S Strip test and SODIS for testing water purity
S.Vishwanath
Posted on 13 Jan, 2008 11:47 AM

 

Two simple technologies for water purity:
Demonstrating inexpensive biosand water filters
Demonstrating inexpensive biosand water filters
IWP
Posted on 03 Dec, 2007 08:51 PM

A majority of the population in the developing world still does not have access t
Water resource website-www.allaboutwater.org
Water resource website-www.allaboutwater.org
www.allaboutwater.org
Posted on 04 Nov, 2007 02:03 PM

www.allaboutwater.org is an interesting site for laypersons but also to an extent for water resources researchers, covering a wide range of facts relating water vis-à-vis our planet and the human race and presenting its information in a clear, user-friendly way.
UNDP posters on water
UNDP posters on water
UNDP
Posted on 29 Oct, 2007 09:58 PM

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Eco-Ganesha
A video on pollution caused by immersion of idols made out of toxic materials
Siddharth
Posted on 23 Aug, 2007 10:02 AM

This is the season to start worrying about the pollution caused by immersion of idols made out of toxic materials. Siddharth sent us a short film he's made on this. Please forward to the Portal any other material or initiatives in this regard.
Two events by Water Today, 29 Aug 2007, New Delhi
Posted on 13 Aug, 2007 10:47 AM

WORKSHOP On

SYULTRAFILTRATION & MBR MEMBRANE STEMS

29th August '07 at the India Corporate Centre, New Delhi
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Water Expo
14-16 November, Mumbai
More at www.watertoday.org
Request for proposals to perform research on household water treatments:PATH
Posted on 31 Mar, 2007 11:38 AM

PATH is an international non-profit working in the area of health. They asked us recently if we could publicise their RFP for for performance of household research on household water treatment and storage perceptions and practices in India.
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