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Co-processing of distillery spent wash concentrate in cement industry – Inviting comments on the draft guidelines by the Central Pollution Control Board (2010)
Posted on 01 Mar, 2011 09:48 PMIn order to utilize the hazardous wastes generated in the cement industry the Central Pollution Control Board has come up with the draft guidelines (in February 2010) dealing with the co-processing of distillery spent wash concentrate in the cement industry.
Robert Chambers speaks about health, nutrition, sanitation and CLTS at the International Development Select Committee on the future of DFID's programme in India
Posted on 01 Mar, 2011 03:18 PMHe spoke about health, nutrition and sanitation in India and specifically referring to CLTS.
Download the below attachment for written evidence given by Robert Chambers
Alkaline soils: Characteristics and treatment - Ramnaresh
Posted on 28 Feb, 2011 12:33 PMक्षारीय मृदाओं के लक्षण तथा सुधार
Steps to create awareness about rainwater harvesting and encouragement to states for implementation of rainwater harvesting projects - PIB release
Posted on 25 Feb, 2011 10:41 AMGiving this information in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on the average annual rainfall and rainwater harvesting, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Water Resources, said that rain water is harvested through surface storages and recharge of ground water.The total storage capacity created through major and medium projects is around 225 BCM. The data on quantum of rainwater harvested through groundwater recharging is 433 BCM. Ministry of Water Resources does not maintain the data on quantum of water harvested due to manmade structures separately.It is estimated that the water utilized in 2010 is about 681 BCM.
A map of World Water Day 2011 events across India
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 04:09 PMWelcome to the World Water Day Events 2011.
"The continuing farce called conditional clearances" - Dams, Rivers and People
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 10:55 AM
Aerobic systems : A unique system of sewage treatment in septic tanks
Posted on 22 Feb, 2011 12:22 PMThis naturally results in two ill effects : (i) Increasing Pollution with untreated sewage and (ii) wasting of water, specially if it can be better treated and reused to an extent.
Water jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated 16th February, 2011
Posted on 17 Feb, 2011 12:16 PMContent courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
- Consultants (implementing watershed projects)
Nabcons, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NABARD
Location: Udaipur (Rajasthan), Pune, Amravati and Jalna (Maharashtra)
Last Date: 15th March, 2011
- Scientific Officer - Groundwater Hydrology and Remote Sensing/GIS
International Water Management Institute
Location: Hyderabad
Last Date: 15th March, 2011
Supreme court judgement on common lands - Jagpal Singh versus State of Punjab (2011) - Guest post by Subbarao Prabhala
Posted on 17 Feb, 2011 12:24 AMIt lays down in no uncertain terms the rights of citizens over the what in the West are called 'Commons' . Even the well-informed among us are not aware of their rights over such public spaces.
The Order states that :
Groundwater Information System - Data on groundwater quality and level for all states of India from 2005-09 from the Central Groundwater Board
Posted on 14 Feb, 2011 12:45 PM
Steps to access the data: