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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)
Invite for an International course on 'Farming, Natural home building and Self Sustainable Living', Krisit, Rajasthan, November 2013 - October 2014
A 12 month programme that will teach you to create and manage a 100%self-sustainable -profitable farm with a Vedic Vastu house
Posted on 10 Aug, 2013 02:11 PM

For details on this very interesting course please click here
Apply for online distance learning course on ' Water Safety Plans (WSPs)', The Water Institute
A course aimed at those in the water industry with management, engineering, or operational responsibilities, representing a new approach to managing risks of water system failure
Posted on 10 Aug, 2013 11:48 AM

For more information on the course, please click here

To access registration form, please click here
Turtle relocation program or turtle poaching plan?
The turtle hatchery at Sarnath was created to reintroduce scavenger turtles into the Ganga to rid it of corpses. However, the seemingly smart program is far from successful. What happens next?
Chicu Lokgariwar
Posted on 09 Aug, 2013 12:23 PM

Rajkumar needs no urging to talk about Sundari. She is evidently a favourite of his. When we met, he regaled me with stories of her beauty, her smartness and her incredibly sweet nature. When he finally brought her out to meet me, I failed to see any signs of a winning personality or of towering intelligence. "Well," I rebuked myself, "you've only met her for two minutes.
Juvenile turtles at the Sarnath Sanctuary
Invitation for Expression of interest (EOI) in Health Nutrition Water & Sanitation (HNWASH) & Open Defecation Free (ODF) assignments, Government of Odisha
An invitation to agencies having interest for CLTS approach to help in preparing for larger community participation in the total sanitation of Odisha state
Posted on 06 Aug, 2013 03:30 PM

Offered by 

Government of Odisha & United Kingdom's Department for International Development

Background information
Yamuna’s Delhi
Delhi was once well-planned along the course of the river Yamuna but it isn't so any more. It can reach a similar state with thoughtful and better urban planning, says Anupam Mishra.
Anupam Mishra
Posted on 04 Aug, 2013 07:55 PM

History tells us cities were settled and abandoned several times in Delhi. But I have not come across an explanation for why the city was repeatedly established at the same site. Surely, the presence of the river Yamuna to the east of Delhi would have been a reason. The Yamuna, though is not a small river; it flows for 1,300 km.
Yamuna; Source: www.pilgrimageindia.net
IAS officer suspended for targeting illegal sand mining
News roundup - IAS officer suspended in UP, groundwater contaminated by gold mines and the number of households with improved sanitation rises.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 04 Aug, 2013 05:01 PM

IAS officer in Uttar Pradesh suspended for action against sand mining
Sand mining near the Yamuna river
Invitation for faculty recruitment, Maharashtra Environmental Engineering Training & Research Academy (MEETRA), Nashik
MEETRA, Nashik an autonomous body of Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Govt. of Maharashtra invites applications from eligible candidates
Posted on 30 Jul, 2013 02:17 PM

Offered by 

Maharashtra Environmental Engineering Training & Research Academy (MEETRA)

About the vacancies

Invitations are invited for applications from eligible candidates for the posts of 
Forest panel rejects highly opposed dam projects in the Northeast
Forest panel rejects dams in the Northeast, government releases new poverty statistics and citizens' refuse the '24x7' water supply scheme are the highlights of this week's news.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 28 Jul, 2013 04:22 PM

Forest Advisory Committee rejects the controversial Tipaimukh and Dibang hydro-electric projects
The idyllic Barak river (source: Wikimedia)
Call for poster abstracts for workshop on 'Indo-UK Perspective on Water Quality: Threats, Technologies & Options', Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
The workshop aims at facilitating research collaborations between academia and industry to understand and develop cutting-edge and affordable technologies for improving water quality.
Posted on 25 Jul, 2013 02:19 PM

Organisers

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Royal Society of Chemistry

About the workshop
IISC, Bangalore
Beware of genetically modified crops!
The passing of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill will hasten the arrival of genetically modified (GM) crops in India. Are we aware of all the facts around it?
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 25 Jul, 2013 01:36 PM

When the DNA of a plant is modified using genetic engineering techniques or biotechnology, the plant is said to have been genetically modified (GM). What does this mean to you and I? Quite simply, it means that the crop could have undergone this process in order to become something that it wasn't in the first place. 
Protest against BRAI bill Source: Greenpeace
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