Governance
Water summit 2009: To facilitate investments in the sector, CII, New Delhi
Posted on 14 May, 2009 02:11 PMImage and Content Courtesy: Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian Business Alliance on Water Confederation of Indian Industry, is organizing the 6th edition of the "Water Summit 2009" to facilitate investments and encourage Public Private Community Partnerships in Water, a 2 day event on 11 & 12 June 2009 at: Jacaranda, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 (INDIA). The main objective of the Summit is to: * Catalyze Investments in Water Sector * Promote Public Private Community Partnership in water management * Share knowledge on best practices and innovative technologies Water Summit 2009 will focus on:
* Catalyzing Investments in Water Sector * Promotion of Rainwater Harvesting and innovative water management technologies * Exclusive session on water saving technologies, products and innovative case studies * Challenges and Opportunities for Public Private Community Partnership in Water Management * Innovations in industry and NGOs partnership.
Government representatives, Municipal Water Authorities, Industries from different sectors, Research organizations, Decision Makers from Financial Institutions, Equipment Manufacturers/ Technology providers, National and International organizations working on water management, Consultants, Nodal Agencies and NGO's are invited to attend the conference.
Water summit Registration Form and Programme.
Call for submissions : Actions for water integrity in the context of climate change
Posted on 14 May, 2009 02:03 PMForwarded to the Portal by: Birke Otto
Image and Content Courtesy: Water Integrity Network
The Water Integrity Network is seeking information on initiatives addressing corruption related to water and climate change for the Water Integrity Case Information Sheet series.
Case studies should address questions such as
What obstacles are rendering water-related climate change adaptation strategies inadequate or inequitable?; What types of initiatives have been put in place to avoid or address climate-related water integrity issues (regulation, policy, monitoring, advocacy, project design, etc.)?; How do local, national, and international groups and organisations tackle such problems?; and What other special problems is climate change implicating for water integrity?
The deadline is 1 June 2009.
The Andhra Pradesh farmer managed groundwater system project
Posted on 14 May, 2009 12:23 PMThe Andhra Pradesh Farmer Managed Groundwater System (APFAMGS) project is an enabling intervention for managing groundwater depletion through voluntary self regulation. The project has demonstrated its impact in 7 districts of Andhra Pradesh spread over 650 villages, on a significant scale. Read more
Financing water crises: World Bank, International Aid Agencies and Privatisation - a report by Navdanya and Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology
Posted on 13 May, 2009 05:31 PMThe report by Navdanya and Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology is in two parts. The first part lists the World Bank projects in three categories – loans given from 1950-1990, water restructuring projects from 1990-2005, and projects at approval stage. The second part of the report includes case studies of World Bank driven water privatization projects in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Asian water supplies: Reaching the urban poor - A guide and sourcebook on urban water supplies in Asia
Posted on 12 May, 2009 05:17 PMThe report aims to provide greater understanding and awareness on expanding the delivery of water services, conservation of water, increased efficiencies, facilitation of the exchange of water sector information and experience, and improving governance. It is particularly focused on ADB’s overarching goal of poverty reduction.
Household water delivery options in urban and rural India – A working paper by Stanford Centre for International Development
Posted on 12 May, 2009 05:14 PMThis working paper by the Stanford Centre for International Development deals with household water delivery options in urban and rural India. The recent potentially far-reaching policy changes frame the paper on drinking water options for urban and rural India. Given the primacy of drinking water as a national objective, and the policy of decentralization through community ownership, private sector participation and devolution to local governments, it asks: How can India alleviate its household level drinking water deprivation, in the near-to-medium term, and in cost-effective ways?
Drinking water access in Bangalore through the framework of human rights: a PhD dissertation
Posted on 12 May, 2009 04:55 PMThis PhD dissertation by Jenny T Gronwall for Linkoping University's Tema Institute looks at issues of drinking water access in Bangalore through the framework of human rights, analyzing three interlinked dimensions: the right to water as a human right; water in terms of property rights; and water rights.
Urban water crisis in Delhi - Stakeholders responses and potential scenarios of evolution
Posted on 12 May, 2009 04:39 PMThis paper on urban water crisis in Delhi looks at stakeholders responses and potential scenarios of evolution. An inadequate piped water supply from the public utility, characterized by intermittence and unreliability, and supplemented by private uncontrolled groundwater abstraction, is a common feature of most Indian cities as well as other developing cities in the w
Annual flood misery in north Bihar - presentations by Megh Pyne Abhiyaan
Posted on 12 May, 2009 04:30 PMThese three sets of presentation by Eklavya Prasad, Practitioner, Natural and Social Resource Management have been summarized below -
Bihar’s flood survival mechanisms
The Parthasarathy committee report by technical committee on watershed programmes in India (2006)
Posted on 12 May, 2009 02:47 PMThe Parthasarathy Committe was a Technical Committee on DPAP, DDP, IWDP Programmes constituted by the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) in 2006 and its report has attempted an exhaustive review of the experience of the watershed programme in India.