India

Technical Coordination for Development of an Online Performance Monitoring and Benchmarking System for Rural Sanitation

OBJECTIVE
WSP wishes to engage the services of a technical consultant for facilitating the development of an online performance benchmarking system The overarching role of the consultant will be to act as a technical liaison between the WSP Rural Sanitation team and the firm that will be engaged by WSP for the development of this online benchmarking system. The consultant is expected to work in the capacity of the key technical resource person from the WSP’s team for: leading discussions during the evaluation of proposals received from various competing firms, facilitating the selection process, collaborating with the WSP team for establishing technical requirements for software development and post-procurement, managing the outputs and activities of the firm for development of a robust benchmarking system and ensuring that O&M support is provided by the firm in a timely and appropriate fashion.

Ashok Jaitly, Water Resources Department, TERI
Policy issues in water conservation

Habil Attarwala, Furaat Earth Ltd., Gujarat

Attending today's technology sessions, I couldn't help thinking about what Carl Sagan once remarked about science and technology. He noted,

Water Digest Water Awards were set-up in 2006 to honor distinguished work carried out by various companies in order to save & conserve water.

On technology and policy, on what works and what doesn't, on what should work and what can be scaled up... there have been numerous approaches and methodologies presented here at WHSC. That too, with a good number of case studies, substatiating the effectiveness of the chosen approach. Planning at micro and macro levels too, have been deliberated upon.

1.CHAMP Manager
 Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
 Location: Gulbarga
 Last Date: November 28, 2009

Centre for Environment Education (CEE) is running a common treatment facility for biomedical waste management called as CHAMP at Gulbarga, Karnataka.

The issues related to planning and implementation were largely concerned with water quality, budgeting and equity.

The group deemed it necessary that the following are addressed on a greater priority:

1. Centralized vs. decentralized rainwater harvesting
2. Water quality aspects in rainwater harvesting system
3. Water quality management through rainwater harvesting

Working Group Meetings formed by a panel of experts in the respective field, formed a significant aspect of WHSC Conference. The conference is geared towards effecting a change in the way water resources are governed and managed. Towards this, the working group meeting's recommendations were valuable, and awaited.

Bharat Sharma (Photo:Praveena Sridhar)