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Bangalore’s garbage crisis grows in heaps and mounds

The city is drowning in its own waste with garbage trucks regularly lined up for hours, their burdens putrefying in the afternoon sun. Some neighborhoods have not had trash pickups for nearly three weeks, and vast mounds of garbage are scattered through out the city.

Those readers who got the insider joke in the title need no introduction to the rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation evangelist that is zenrainman.

Maharashtra mulls new social forestry policy in non-forest areas to improve greenery

Venue

NSSC Auditorium (J N Tata Auditorium), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Event theme

At India Water Portal’s data project, we are working on an initiative on which we need your help.

Rajasthan High Court orders strict action against those threatening Udaipur lakes

 Training programme on design and implementation of decentralised wastewater treatment system (DEWATS), CDD Society, Kengeri,Bangalore.

Madakas are one of the fast disappearing traditional rainwater harvesting structures found in the laterite belts of Karnataka and Kerala. They are naturally occuring depressions with high terrain on the three sides where water from the surrounding laterite slopes, mainly runoff from the rains, is accumulated.

Published by the National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs and being the first of its kind, the reports hopes to stimulate better collection of data and research that can identify gaps in the management of disasters and be helpful to deal with them in the future.