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Applications invited for 'Australia Awards Scholarship for Master of Integrated Water Management', Australia
Posted on 12 Apr, 2014 07:49 AMGet more information on Australia Awards Scholarship.
Know more about Australia Awards.
Call for Entries for the 'Quotes from the Earth' Environmental Film Festival 2014, Toxics Link & India International Centre, New Delhi
Posted on 11 Apr, 2014 04:09 PMGet more information on 'Quotes from the Earth'.
Know more about Toxics Link and India International Centre.
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Invitation to the 'Workshop on CSR for Sanitation', Gramalaya & UNICEF-Chennai, Tiruchirappali, Tamil Nadu
Posted on 09 Apr, 2014 04:34 PMGet more information on the event.
Know more about Gramalaya.
Download the brochure and registration form to the event from below.
![Workshop on CSR for Sanitation](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rural.jpg?itok=0-ZP5hTt)
Invitation to the monsoon school on 'Perspectives on Environment, Society and Well-Being', Kalpavriksh, Pune, Maharashtra
Posted on 09 Apr, 2014 02:40 PMGet more information on the event.
Know more about Kalpavriksh.
Download the announcement of the event from below.
![Kalpavriksh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kv_logo.jpg?itok=2dYTigC3)
AAP, BJP or Congress: Which party will end our water woes?
Posted on 08 Apr, 2014 12:58 PMWater had a big role to play last year due to weather-related events- first, the floods in Uttarakhand followed by three consecutive cyclones in South India and hailstorms in Maharashtra.
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Applications invited for the post of 'Project Coordinator', WatSan Fellowship Program 2014-15, SCOPE-Arghyam, Dharwad, Karnataka
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 04:59 PMAbout the opportunity:
Applications invited for the 'WatSan Fellowship Program 2014-15', SCOPE-Arghyam, Dharwad, Karnataka
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 04:54 PMAbout the organisation:
SCOPE is a non-profit society headquartered at Dharwad, Karnataka, India. Started in the year 2000, SCOPE focuses on Rural Development in the areas of sustainable livelihood, natural resource management, improved quality of life and environment.
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Water works: Keystone’s interventions in the Nilgiris
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 12:50 PMA village of nine families bounded by a river on one side and thick forests on the other, lived here in Kilcoupe, an Irula hamlet in the Nilgiris. The women went out into the forest in search of water, a risky activity, as there was quite a large chance that they would encounter either a gaur or an elephant, sometimes even a leopard.
![A stream flowing through a settlement and farms.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/stream_settlement_farming.jpg?itok=cBgHd2_W)
More data please...The changing landscape of open water data
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 08:10 AMData related to the water sector although available online was very scattered and inaccessible and did not reveal much on its own when India Water Portal (IWP), Arghyam started the data project with the aim of providing better ways of accessing and representing data related to the water sector. The process led to some interesting learnings, revelations and very positive outcomes.
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Urban water supply maps
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 06:43 AMCleaning, analysis and contextualizing the available data
![Chennai water supply map (summer)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/chennai_tfc_09102013-02_0.png?itok=RfTwBaIV)