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Model for self-financing ecological sustainable local development projects for the world's poor - Full year e-learning course
Posted on 03 Apr, 2010 09:01 PMThis website describes the principles and techniques of self-financing, ecological, sustainable local integrated development projects for the world's poor in detail. In each project area with about 50.000 people social, financial, productive and services are set up in a critical order of sequence to ensure a good quality of life everyone, without exclusion, in each project area. The Model gives full coverage to drinking water structures, rain-water harvesting and recycling of grey water for household level cultivation.
NWS has developed a self sustainable flush toilet system - SMARTSAN
Posted on 01 Apr, 2010 01:38 PMEXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Introduction
It is a well documented fact that the combination of safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities is a precondition for health and for success in the fight against poverty, hunger, child deaths and gender inequality. Yet 2.6 billion people – half the developing world – lack even a simple ‘improved’ latrine. One person in six – more than 1 billion of our fellow human beings – has little choice but to use potentially harmful sources of water.
A plan to clean and stop pollution in Yamuna within 7 months
Posted on 01 Apr, 2010 11:29 AMDelhi, India
I, Gopi Dutt, want to draw your attention to problem that Delhi has been facing since as long as 10 yrs now. I am talking about the pollution in Yamuna caused by devotional material, Polybags, Flowers etc. Our govt., different NGOs and now Maharaja Sri Sri Ravi Shankar have put their best efforts to clean up the river. We all have been trying to clean it up for the past 10 yrs but it hasn’t stopped yet. Does anyone have a plan to stop this that here is no further need to clean n re-clean the river? The problem is that we only create awareness that people should not pollute the river but there are no measures taken to stop this pollution.
Proper planning needed for water conservation
Posted on 31 Mar, 2010 05:55 PMWater is main source of life without water we cann't imagine the life of our's. The chief concern is that how we save water Although we have little but save more. Yes this is the issue which is now become an eminent part of our life. We are utilising less & wasting more. We have to search a new method of water saving.
India could lead the world by supporting a new global drinking water project
Posted on 31 Mar, 2010 03:55 PMWe are very serious about providing a New Global Clean Drinking Water SVD project. http://www.chakraworld.net/H2OTrust.swf
200 ft deep well needed for rain water storage so that it is used to recharge underground water pockets
Posted on 31 Mar, 2010 03:12 PMUse of rain water to recharge quickly the deep under ground water pockets
Present problem:
- Due to urbanization, many a under ground water recharge/enrichment points have be closed/covered/blocked. So, % of water reaching the underground water pockets is reduced to a very great extent.
- Bore wells are dug at a very large number to satisfy the increasing demand for water. Therefore, level of underground water table is going down alarmingly.
- As many the opportunities for the rain water to reach the underground level is blocked almost at all places, even with a little bit of rain, the water will run on the roads & cause artificial flood or water blocking at different points on roads or low laying areas of the Cities. Such floods are causing a lot of traffic jams/road mishaps.Rain water on the road is also damaging the durability of the TAR roads.
Using dried wells to enrich deep level under ground water pockets
Posted on 31 Mar, 2010 02:45 PMBy using dried open wells, we can enrich the Underground water quickly.
In the good old days, open wells used to help the common man in fetching water for all purposes and specially the drinking water. Invasion of pump-sets and specially the deep bore wells have pulled the underground water indiscriminately. Therefore, the water table level of the underground water is continuously going down at a very alarming rate. This fall in the underground water table level has made many a very big and useful water wells dry up. Now they are not in use as people do depend on alternative source of water like bore well water or the tap water drawn from far off river water.
200 ft deep wells , in the corner of roads/parks , needed for rain water harvesting in cities
Posted on 31 Mar, 2010 11:51 AMRAIN WATER HARVESTING AT CITY.
LET US MAKE PLANS TO PRESERVE WATER AND SAVE THE ROADS.
Water is an important and essential commodity to every one which is to be preserved.
AT CITIES.
New farm practice for rice crop : A Lok Sabha response
Posted on 31 Mar, 2010 10:48 AMGoverment of India
Ministry of Agriculture
Lok Sabha
Unstarred Question No 2961
Answered On 16.03.2010
New Farm Practice for Rice Crops 2961 .
J. Shantha
Will the Minister of Agriculture be pleased to state:-
- Whether a new farm practice has been developed in Karnataka to increase the productivity of land, water and other farm inputs in the cultivation of rice crops;
- If so, the details thereof;
- Whether this practice has incorporated some innovative features over the conventional method of flooded rice cultivation;
- If so, the details thereof;
- Whether the existing problems like water scarcity high energy usage and environmental degradation would adequately be taken care of and crop yield increased substantially by this new farming practice; and
- If so, the details thereof?
Water owned by all and used by all
Posted on 30 Mar, 2010 02:17 PMThis is cross posted from my blog (link). I wanted to introduce the idea of common pool resources, on which there is a whole new body of work coming up lately. This had won Elinor Ostrom the 2009 Nobel Prize. For water sector, I believe this theory can definitely yield some new insights. And it all starts with a question "Who owns the water?'