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MoWR stresses the need to provide momentum to our conservation efforts on water conservation day
Posted on 23 Nov, 2012 02:12 PMThe Union Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) celebrated “Water Conservation Day" on the 19th of November 2012 to create awareness regarding depleting water resources and underlined its vision and commitment to be an active contributor to the sustainability of this very important natural resource. The field offices of various organizations under the administrative c
Request for aid: Stream water harvesting project at Janthli Shirur village, Gadag district, Karnataka to be carried out by the Water Literacy Foundation, Bangalore
Posted on 23 Nov, 2012 10:39 AMAbout Water Literacy Foundation
National conference by IRRAD and UNICEF on women-led water management: Strategies towards water sustainability in rural India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2012 05:07 PMThe Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD) and UNICEF India hosted this National Conference on Women-led Water Management .
Wisdom in every drop: ‘In search of water’, a documentary film on reviving of the traditional water harvesting system in the Thar Desert
Posted on 22 Nov, 2012 12:22 PMVeiled women walk unimaginable distances. Long queues. Dark sun and innumerable pots lined up, yearning to be filled. Hours of wait and half a pot of saline water was all they had.
Course on ecosystem based disaster risk reduction, WOTR, Sangamner, Maharashtra, February 4-8, 2013 - Register by January 27, 2013
Posted on 22 Nov, 2012 10:19 AMVenue
Watershed Training Centre, Village Darewadi, block, Dist. Sangamner, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Goa Khazan Land Development Board Act - A document by Department of Water Resources, Government of Goa (2012)
Posted on 21 Nov, 2012 11:03 PMThis document by the Department of Water Resources, Government of Goa, is an act that aims to protect, develop and regulated Khazan land in Goa.
Data on sanitation issues of states - A compilation by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Posted on 21 Nov, 2012 03:27 PMThe Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan under the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation provides a host of data related to the sanitation issues of different states in India.
Dams are destroying fisheries and livelihoods – Letter from environmental groups to MoEF on World Fisheries Day, 2012
Posted on 21 Nov, 2012 11:25 AMOver twenty groups and eminent individuals including scientists and member of National Board of Wildlife and National Tiger Conservation Authority have sent a letter (contact SANDRP for a copy) to the Union Ministry of Environment Forests and its Expert Appraisal Committee on River Valley and Hydropower projects to take urgent steps for protection of i
Bangalore’s garbage crisis grows in heaps and mounds - Roundup of news over the last three weeks (October 29 –November 18, 2012)
Posted on 20 Nov, 2012 07:07 PMBangalore’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.