Political

Organizer: Water Today

Venue: Chennai Trade Center, Nandambakkam, Chennai

Topics:

• Latest Technologies in Water Conservation, Harvesting Technologies & Water Audit
• Advances in Industrial Wastewater Treatment (Oil, Greaves Removal, Electroplating Removal, Insecticides and Pesticides)

Clean Energy & Energy Security

Organizer: Engineering Staff College of India

Venue: Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited, Hyderabad

क्षारीय मृदाओं के लक्षण तथा सुधार 

Organizer: Indian Water Works Association

Venue: Conference hall, IWWA head quarters building, Mumbai

Organizers:

• Vikalp Bengaluru
• maraa
• CONCERN

Venue: Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Sadashivnagar, Bangalore

Today is 22 February, 10 days afterwards, and there is not a single reply to it.

Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private, non-denominational development agency, established by His Highness the Aga Khan in Switzerland in 1967. In India, AKF has been working since 1973 in four thematic areas: Health, Education, Rural Development and Civil Society. The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is implementing a Multi Input Area Development (MIAD) programme in the state of Bihar. The programme aims to improve the quality of life of marginalized communities by addressing their multi-faceted poverty through a multi-year and multi-sector approach.

Responding to increasing concerns over climate change, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) have jointly developed an eight-week blended distance learning program on “Science and Policy of Climate Change”. This will be conducted for Asia-Pacific region from 8th April to 8th June, 2011.

Like every year a vigil will be kept by various individual volunteers, NGOs along with Forest Department (FD) at forest areas falling in Mulund, Thane, Borivali for Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) & Vasai region for Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary (TWLS). As you may be aware during MahaShivratri day, people enter from different directions to visit the temples around these forests. Some get inside the forests to gamble, drink, roam about, also deliberately put fire... while doing so the wildlife gets disturbed, forest fires occur, litter is spread all around, etc. Every year vigil has reduced all this to a great extent.

 Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on the average annual rainfall and rainwater harvesting, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Water Resources, said that rain water is harvested through surface storages and recharge of ground water.The total storage capacity created through major and medium projects is around 225 BCM. The data on quantum of rainwater harvested through groundwater recharging is 433 BCM. Ministry of Water Resources does not maintain the data on quantum of water harvested due to manmade structures separately.It is estimated that the water utilized in 2010 is about 681 BCM.