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Call for entries for the 5th WASH Media Awards, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and Stockholm International Water Institute
Posted on 23 May, 2014 11:23 AMThe award aims to promote coverage of WASH issues in the local, national and international media to have a positive influence on decision-makers, the private sector, the civil society as well as individuals and households. Prize winners will receive a cash award and the opportunity to participate in the World Water Week in Stockholm – the world’s leading water event to be held from (
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Invitation to the course on 'Ecological Literacy', INTACH, New Delhi
Posted on 23 May, 2014 10:24 AMGet more information of the course on 'Ecological Literacy'.
Know more about INTACH.
Download the course poster and registration form from below.
![Course on eco-literacy](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/logo_23.jpg?itok=LvqL5TjD)
Sunshine water in Uttarakhand
Posted on 21 May, 2014 10:50 AMChurerdhar, a mountain village in Uttarakhand suffered from a lack of safe potable water. Here, hand pumps used to dry up in the summer and a natural spring 1.5 km away from the cluster of homes that housed 300 people, was the only other source of water. That was its plight in 2002.
Existing water sources
![Sunshine water for Chureddhar Village, Uttarakhand](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pic1_0.png?itok=Pif70zb7)
NGT orders Singrauli power plants to supply drinking water to residents
Posted on 21 May, 2014 08:48 AM![Singrauli Coal Mines (Source: UA Satish on Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/singrauli.jpg?itok=DVQtKAn0)
The hundredth farmer
Posted on 20 May, 2014 11:22 PMI remember a farm pond that I once visited in Maharashtra. It shone like a square sapphire in that dry land, securely held by tall earth embankments. On the other side of one of those embankments was a parched and dying field. When I asked the farmer why it wasn't irrigated, he asked me to give him a pump.
![Carefully mulched and fed by drip irrigation](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sobans_farm_lead.jpg?itok=RfyKMQpD)
Environmentalists wary of Modi's green agenda
Posted on 20 May, 2014 10:47 PMEnvironmentalists wary of Modi's green agenda
![Launch of Narmada-Kshipra interlink (The Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kshipra.jpg?itok=RBQKMPKh)
Open Happiness' or open a can of worms?
Posted on 16 May, 2014 08:11 PM1999 was an interesting real estate year for Mehdiganj village in Uttar Pradesh. Someone began buying up land adjoining a soft drink factory owned by the Parle Company. They also began buying land from the farmers except the farmers had no idea as to whom they were selling the land to. As the boundary wall rose up, problems arose too.
![Nandlal Master - fighting Coca Cola since 2002](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/nandlal.png?itok=bV2yB4EQ)
More crop per drop in the predicted weak monsoons
Posted on 15 May, 2014 03:28 PMWater and agriculture are closely linked in our country where 60% our net sown area is rain-fed. Indian agriculture is undoubtedly dependent on the monsoon where good rains have meant enhanced agricultural production, and a weak or bad monsoon has lowered production thereby impacting the economy.
![Water and agriculture ( Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmer_0.png?itok=b6Sbo8kQ)
Invitation to the 'Forum on Technology Options for Decentralized Wastewater Management', CDD Society, Bangalore
Posted on 14 May, 2014 02:05 PMAbout the forum:
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Applications invited for the 'Training Programme on EcoSan', Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions, Bangalore
Posted on 14 May, 2014 11:03 AMAbout the Programme:
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