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Well hydraulics: Difference in the hydraulics of pumping and recharge in a dug well
Posted on 12 Sep, 2012 01:31 PMIt is well known fact that water well hydraulics is derived from the petroleum industry, therefore borrowed the concept of synonymy between pumping and injection. Two reasons which favoured the presumption are 1. Solutions for crude oil injection were never so significant as compared to pumping in the petroleum industry, and 2.
Uniform drinking water quality monitoring protocol- Draft by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Posted on 12 Sep, 2012 12:15 PMThis document by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation describes various elements of laboratory management practices that will ensure that the data generated is comparable and scientifically correct and is in a form that can then be used to result in intervent
Churning still water – Briefing paper by the Centre for Science and Environment on the state of urban water bodies, conservation and management in India
Posted on 10 Sep, 2012 10:58 PMUrban water bodies are encroached, full of sewage, garbage or just filled up and built over these days.
"The new human revolution": Ushering universalism and a just world through sustainability
Posted on 09 Sep, 2012 03:54 PMContemporary society is in a transition and deep into the making of the first universal society for mankind, creation of a ‘one world’ where human wellbeing can no longer be separated from other human beings or from planetary welfare.
India’s groundwater crisis- A discussion paper by Global Water Forum
Posted on 08 Sep, 2012 07:54 PMThis discussion paper by Global Water Forum reviews the drivers of groundwater crisis and its consequent impact, in India .
Market integration and price transmission in India: A case of rice and wheat with special reference to the world food crisis of 2007/08- A paper by Food and Agriculture Organization
Posted on 07 Sep, 2012 09:53 PMThis paper by Food and Agriculture Organization sheds light on the significant role played by rice and wheat in the Indian economy, its food security policy and the specific policy measures that were taken during the global economic crisis of 2007/08.
Guidance notes for continuous water supply (24-7): A guide to project preparation, implementation and appraisal- A report by Water and Sanitation Program
Posted on 06 Sep, 2012 09:39 PMThis report by Water and Sanitation Program is a guidance notes meant for governments, municipal administrations and water utilities that are considering of converting their water distribution services from intermittent to continuous (24-7)
Community participation in South Asian sanitation - A paper published in Public World
Posted on 05 Sep, 2012 04:06 PMThis paper published in collaboration with Public World (London) focuses on the poor sanitation situation in South Asia, which has the highest proportion of people practising open defecation and argues that improvement in sanitation is one of the most important goals that countries i
Conservation at crossroads – Science, society and the future of India’s wildlife – A talk by Ghazala Shahabuddin
Posted on 05 Sep, 2012 03:48 PMGhazala Shahabuddin’s recent talk on 30th August, 2012 at IIC, New Delhi focused on the malaise underlying India’s dominant conservation paradigm, which is for the most part one of top-down control and exclusion.