Term Path Alias
/regions/india
India
Impact of climate change on water resources and glacier melt and potential adaptations for Indian agriculture - A working paper by Challenge Program on Water and Food
Posted on 17 Aug, 2010 11:24 PMThe paper by the Challenge Program on Water and Food deals with the impact of climate change on water resources & glacier melt and potential adaptations in Indian agriculture. Global climatic changes will have major effects on precipitation, water availability, glacier/ice melt, and sea level rise. Climate-induced changes in hydrological conditions will affect the magnitude, frequency, and damage costs of future extreme events.
Water-use accounts in basins: Model concepts and description – A working paper by the Challenge Program on Water and Food
Posted on 16 Aug, 2010 12:18 PMThis paper deals with basin water use accounting and is a contribution to the synthesis work of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food's (CPWF) Basin Focal Projects. It provides a means to assess the interactions between water, food, poverty, and the environment and helps develop sound information about water availability in a basin, where it goes and how it is used.
UN General Assembly s resolution on water and sanitation as a human right
Posted on 13 Aug, 2010 05:00 PMThe recent UN General Assembly Resolution on declaring water and sanitation as human right is or can be a powerful impetus to securing universal access to water and sanitation for people everywhere. This is the most recent in a string of initiatives to advance the provision of these essential services. Beginning with the UN Decade of Water in the eighties, then the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals, and later the adoption of General Statement 15 by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in 2002 the recognition of the fundamental importance of water (and more recently sanitation) to life, health and well being has been accepted at the international level. In India, while there is no specific mention of the right to water in the Constitution, the Supreme Court in its judgement(s)has upheld this as part of the right to life. Some organizations are working to make this a fundamental right, to remove any ambiguity.
Boy drinking water from handpump in Guna, Madhya Pradesh - Handpumps and wells are still one of the major source of drinking water in India.
Photo credits: Anil Gulati
Research reports of the National Institute of Hydrology (1996-2001) - Highlights
Posted on 12 Aug, 2010 10:29 PM
The India Water Portal is pleased to announce to its users, that a comprehensive archive of over two hundred and fifty technical research reports of the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee, have now been made available on the portal, and in the public domain for the first time.
Voices from the Waters 2010 : The 5th international film festival on Water
Posted on 12 Aug, 2010 05:25 PMPower finance: Financial institutions in India's hydropower sector - A report by SANDRP, Urgewald and IRN
Posted on 12 Aug, 2010 05:01 PMThis report published by SANDRP, Urgewald and International Rivers Network (IRN) provides a brief background on India's power and financial sectors and illustrates the issues at stake by giving examples of two important power projects in India, the Dabhol project and the Maheshwar project.
The next part of the report describes the role that the domestic and international financial institutions have played and continue to play and the controversies that have been associated with the functioning of these institutions in the implementation of the hydropower projects in India.
The report emphasises the importance of the role of NGOs and civil society movements in making these institutions accountable to the common people whose lives are affected by the projects/ interventions.
Inviting nominations for 7th Manthan Award South Asia 2010
Posted on 12 Aug, 2010 04:08 PMArticle and Image Courtesy: Manthan Award
Nominations are open now for the 7th Manthan Award 2010 supported by Govt. of India's Department of Information Technology.
As you are aware, Manthan Award is an unique award to recognise the best practices which use ICT tools in all sectors like business, health, agriculture, entertainment, culture, governance, rural development, and so on.
Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated August 11th, 2010
Posted on 11 Aug, 2010 04:21 PMContent Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
- Program Associate (Drinking Water and Sanitation)
Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell
Location: Ahmedabad
Last Date: August 11, 2010
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation: People don't matter - A dossier by Urgewald
Posted on 11 Aug, 2010 01:24 PMThis document by Urgewald provides a brief overview on the role of India's premier dam building agency, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) in the construction of dams in India and is highly critical of the mode in which the NHPC has been aggressively expanding its operations of building dams across rivers in the country.
It aims to inform the public, investors and financiers about NHPC’s track record and expansion plans and presents compiled information from three regions where NHPC has been actively involved in the construction of dams namely:
- Narmada Valley in Central India
- Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh in Northeastern India
- The lands of the Kuki people in Northwestern Burma, where NHPC is building a dam for the military junta.
48% industrial clusters in India are critically polluted: CPCB
Posted on 10 Aug, 2010 11:38 PM
A Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) is a very useful tool to capture the health dimensions of the environment including air, water and land. The CEPI is intended to act as an early warning tool and can help in categorising the industrial clusters/areas in terms of priority of planning needs for interventions.
This report by the Central Pollution and Control Board (CPCB) presents the results of the application of the CEPI to selected industrial clusters or areas.
The main objective of the study was to identify polluted industrial clusters or areas in order to take concerted action and to centrally monitor them at the national level. This was in order to improve the current status of environmental components such as air and water quality data, ecological damage, and visual environmental conditions.