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TH!NK5:Water Competition has been officially launched!
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 06:59 PMForwarded to the portal by: Hanna McLean
Video Editor needed for 2-3 month project at Digital Empowerment Foundation
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 06:42 PMForwarded to the portal by - Mahima Kaul
The Digital Empowerment Foundation is working on a resource portal called the Digital Knowledge Commission (DKC) which will house information, including videos, about rural projects that use Information & Communication Technologies. For this, we need an in-house editor who can use FCP and is very good (read: efficient) but most of all, has an interest in some kind of development work, so that the videos are edited beautifully.
National disaster management guidelines - Management of floods (2008)
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 06:35 PMThese guidelines aim at minimising vulnerability to floods and consequent loss of lives, livelihood systems, property and damage to infrastructure and public utilities due to disasters such as floods.
2011 World Water Week Calls for Abstracts and Proposals
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 05:39 PMContent and Image Courtesy: World Water Week
World Water Week is hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place each year in Stockholm. The World Water Week has been the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues since 1991.
Conference on values and practices that promote food sovereignty in the context of climate change, Pipal Tree, 16 - 19 February 2011, Bangalore
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 05:22 PM
Organizer: Pipal Tree
Venue: Fireflies Inter-religious Ashram, Bangalore, India
Towards ruin: Regularisation rather than regulation has become the norm in our coastal policy at present, which is actively undoing one of India’s most significant environmental regulations - Claude Alvares
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 03:58 PM
MV River Princess Stranded for 10 years now, the grounded ship has been wreaking ecological havoc on Candolim beach in Goa
Indira Gandhi’s concerns about protecting the ecology of India’s coasts, which held sway for almost 20 years, are being subverted under a regime supervised by her daughter-in-law and grandson.
India’s groundwater challenge and the way forward - Economic and Political Weekly
Posted on 20 Jan, 2011 07:01 PMIt warns that groundwater quantity as well as quality are the two major problems that the country has been facing.
The rate of withdrawal of groundwater has reached “unsafe” levels in 31% of the districts, covering 33% of the land area and 35% of the population. The situation has dramatically worsened within a short span of nine years, between the assessments done in 1995 and 2004.
Taking the quantitative and qualitative aspects together, data indicates that a total of 347 districts (59% of all districts in India) are vulnerable in terms of safe drinking water in India. This is a matter of serious concern, requiring a new approach.
9th Indian Fisheries Forum, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, 19 - 23 December 2011 , Chennai
Posted on 20 Jan, 2011 05:12 PM
Organizer: Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi
Venue: Indian Bank Management Academy for Growth & Excellence, Chennai
24th National Convention of IPHE (India): "Water & Sanitation Utility Services in India and their Health Implications", February 12th & 13th, Bhubaneswar
Posted on 20 Jan, 2011 04:58 PM
Organiser: Institution of Public Health Engineers, India
Venue: Hotel The New Marrion, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
The worsening water crisis in Gujarat - The Earth Institute
Posted on 20 Jan, 2011 04:41 PMIt was the kick-off event of an ambitious project to find solutions to the groundwater crisis in Gujarat, funded by the PepsiCo Foundation. More details of the project will follow this overview post.
Gujarat and the Mehsana region, India Source: Columbia Water Center