Bangalore Urban and Rural District

Bangalore’s garbage crisis grows in heaps and mounds

The city is drowning in its own waste with garbage trucks regularly lined up for hours, their burdens putrefying in the afternoon sun. Some neighborhoods have not had trash pickups for nearly three weeks, and vast mounds of garbage are scattered through out the city.

Those readers who got the insider joke in the title need no introduction to the rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation evangelist that is zenrainman.

Maharashtra mulls new social forestry policy in non-forest areas to improve greenery

Venue

NSSC Auditorium (J N Tata Auditorium), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Event theme

Rajasthan High Court orders strict action against those threatening Udaipur lakes

 Training programme on design and implementation of decentralised wastewater treatment system (DEWATS), CDD Society, Kengeri,Bangalore.

Since its inception in 1992, CIVIC’s (Citizens’ Voluntary Initiative for the City) work has revolved around urban issues, especially realizing social equity in the growth of Bangalore through the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (or the Nagarapalika Act, an Act under the Constitution of India that defines how cities/towns in India need to b

Plastic trash fish to highlight coastal pollution at Hyderabad CBD COP

Organizer: CDD

Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions
                Kengeri, Bangalore

CDD Society is working to provide one million marginalised people with access to water, sanitation and energy by 2015.
From our headquarters in Bangalore, we work through a network of likeminded organisations across South Asia to provide cost effective, environmentally sound, and community specific basic needs services.

History has witnessed World War I and II; will there be a World War III? Indeed, if there will be, it will be 'The World War III - for Water'. Can there be a second thought to this after the call for a Karnataka bandh on Saturday, 6 October 2012, in the name of water?