Amita Bhaduri

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. Amita Bhaduri posted 10 years 11 months ago

Touched by very little water

Anupam Mishra talks about how the desert societies of Rajasthan have managed their scarce water resources for over 1000 years. Amita Bhaduri posted 10 years 11 months ago

Kunds and tankas have been used to collect water

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 10 years 11 months ago

Protest against BRAI bill Source: Greenpeace

Water for sale - to the highest bidder!

Water is a natural resource that should be 'free' for all or at least easily accessible but why is India allowing more and more companies to privatise it? Amita Bhaduri posted 10 years 11 months ago

Rising cost of water Source: K.N. Balraj

Elitist Delhi scores low on environmental awareness

Urban policies seem to favour the wealthy; they don't bear the brunt of urbanization as much as the poor. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years ago

Even climate change discriminates between women and men!

Climate change is coming – and women in particular will feel its effects Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years ago

Crop cultivation or construction - tough choice in Andhra Pradesh

Excessive sand quarrying to meet the demands of the construction industry is destroying local irrigation systems in Anantapur. Which will prevail - agriculture or construction? Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 1 month ago

Churning the earth: The making of global India – Ashish Kothari talks about his recent work at a book release event in Udaipur, Rajasthan

Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 3 months ago

Experiences from a civil society initiative to restore stretches of toxic Yamuna: Report of a conference organised by PEACE, Thames River Restoration Trust and WWF India at New Delhi in March 2013

Amita Bhaduri reports on the lessons learnt from the Thames and Ganga Twinning Project on March 1, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 4 months ago

Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme given near-exclusive priority in 12th five year plan, but will it solve India’s water problems?

This article by Amita Bhaduri gets into the nitty gritty of the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP). Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 4 months ago

Refugees of the Kosi embankments – A booklet by Dinesh Kumar Mishra

This booklet by Dinesh Kumar Mishra deals with the plight of the refugees of the Kosi embankment Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 4 months ago

Water in India: Situation and prospects: Book release by UNICEF, FAO and SaciWaters

New indices are needed to measure available water resources, says a report on the state of the water sector in India, entitled Water in India: Situation and Prospects by UNICEF, FAO and SaciWATERS. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 4 months ago

Living rivers, dying rivers: Everything you wanted to know about rivers in India

Why are our rivers getting sicker day by day? Can they be restored and revived? This series of talks, which also includes video footage discusses this essential aspect. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago

Rivers: A crucial debate surrounding the alarming increase in environmental degradation (Source: Wikipedia)

Videos: Resurgence of the ahar pynes - Magadh Jal Jamaat helps revive 2000-year old flood water harvesting systems in Gaya, Bihar

A success story on the domino effect created due to revival of a pond in Gaya, Bihar that led to the resurgence of ahar pynes, the traditional water harvesting systems in the region. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago

An exhibition at Studio Safdar in Shadi Khampur traces the history of the urban village and its water systems

Shadi Khampur in West Delhi's rich history and its connect to larger narratives from the past, like the series of land acquisitions in Delhi, the Emergency, and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 which had gone largely undocumented and unarchived have been chronicled in the Neighbourhood Museum of Local History of Shadi Khampur, at Studio Safdar, a cafe cum bookstore. The project attempts to give an account of the living urban habitation and its specific characteristics, as embedded strongly in people's minds. The way the urban spaces of its narrow lanes have grown is really fascinating. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago

River basin atlas of India – A report by Central Water Commission and Indian Space Research Organisation

"River basin atlas of India", is an outcome of joint project “Generation of Database and implementation of web enabled Water Resources Information System (India-WRIS) in the country”. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago

Ahar pynes, traditional flood water harvesting systems can help revive agriculture in south Bihar

An in depth account of the indigenous floodwater harvesting system prevalent in South Bihar and the need for other agencies to undertake its renovation & management. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago

Videos: Lovraj Kumar panel discussion focuses on the challenges to biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and ecological sustainability

The manner in which biodiversity contributes to poverty reduction and development had recently become a subject of heated debate at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CoP-11) at Hyderabad.
As a curtain raiser to this event, SPWD’s Lovraj Kumar panel discussion on 28th September, 2012 at IIC, New Delhi focused on the challenges to biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and ecological sustainability. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago

Living rivers, dying rivers: River Yamuna

The second lecture was on the Yamuna river by Prof. Brij Gopal, former Prof. at JNU, and Manoj Misra, PEACE Institute and Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago

Compendium of sewage treatment technologies by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

The data gathered for this project was assimilated for determination of treatment efficiency, treatment cost and land requirements of various technological options available for sewage treatment. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 5 months ago