Karnataka

The various initiatives taken up include setting up a monitoring and reporting system to keep track of the water usage, increasing the reverse osmosis plant efficiency, rainwater harvesting, treating sewage and reusing treated water and more.

The various initiatives taken up include installing a fin-fan heat exchanger, rain water harvesting, increasing cycles of concentration in cooling towers, pumping seepage water, cascading use of water, zero waste water discharge and more.

Organiser: Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society

Dates: 7th December to 12th December, 2009 in Bangalore.

This report includes the findings of the ASHWAS  survey (A Survey of Household Water and Sanitation),  a participatory survey carried out by Arghyam, that  included  28 districts of Karnataka covering more than 17,200 households across 172 gram panchayats (GPs). This was a peoples' survey, and the surveyors were selected from the respective communities that included students, women from self help groups, local NGO partners and other volunteers.

TARA & Samarthanam parisaraâ are organising an workshop on Waste Management and Resource Recycling.

Date         : Tuesday, 10th November 2009
Time         : 10:30 am to 4:30 pm
Venue      : KRUPHWODS,#66, 6th main, 3rd phase peenya industrial estate.

Discussion on the recent flood situation  at North Karnataka regarding the injustice meted to the Dalit women, caste discrimination being shown towards Dalits in the flood affected villages.

Venue              : Conference Hall, Legislative House, Bangalore
Time                : 11 am – 3.00 pm

Thinking about giving back to society? Looking for an opportunity to do something meaningful and use your skills and experience to contribute to the lives of the disadvantaged? Come and join a small team of like-minded individuals working together with people and groups across the country on the issue of water.

Everyday more than 1000 children die of preventable, water related diseases in India. At least 30 million people don’t have access to safe drinking water in urban India, and 40 million live in slums without adequate sanitation facilities. And the situation is only going to worsen. Water is likened to oil, only much more central to our very lives and well-being. Globally, it is increasingly being seen as the burning issue of this century.