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Implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in West Bengal: A field report by the Right to Food Campaign
Posted on 13 Apr, 2010 12:48 PMThis report from the Right to Food Campaign traces the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in West Bengal and points to the failure of the State in guaranteeing basic entitlements. It asserts that West Bengal is way behind other States, in implementation of this scheme, as per the data on NREGS website.
Cost Effective Sustainable Sanitation – An Indian Experience, WASH, New Delhi
Posted on 13 Apr, 2010 11:30 AMWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Institute National Conference
Theme:“Cost Effective Sustainable Sanitation – An Indian Experience”
Organizers:
WASH Institute, Plan India, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, UNICEF, WES-Net India, Government of India, member agencies
Venue:
Indian Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
Description:
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Institute is aiming to organize a national level conference on sanitation.WASH Institute is planning to bring all the key sector players / practitioners together to share their success stories and approaches in promoting sustainable sanitation in the country to overcome some of the key challenges. Also to define the strategy to scale-up good practices in an efficient and effective ways towards making open defecation free nation. The proposed national meet would be a mini sanitation conference before SACOSAN IV in Sri Lanka next year.
Training in EPANET - Dynamic Hydraulic Modelling Software for Water Distribution Systems.
Posted on 13 Apr, 2010 11:19 AMTraining in EPANET
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Training in EPANET - Dynamic Hydraulic Modelling Software for Water Distribution Systems
Posted on 13 Apr, 2010 11:15 AMGet trained in EPANET - The software for dynamic hydraulic modelling of water supply distribution systems.
The course shall include:
Hydrological inventory of South Bihar river basins – A report by National Institute of Hydrology
Posted on 12 Apr, 2010 12:25 PMThis report by National Institute of Hydrology provides a compilation of the hydrological information of seventeen different river basins of South Bihar (now Jharkhand). Hydrological modeling of a basin requires detailed hydrological information about the basin. Further, the hydrological information of a region or a basin is of immense use to water resources planners and managers. However, the hydrological information collected by different organizations are often scattered and are not in representable form.
NBA's indefinite action starts from April 11 : An appeal for solidarity
Posted on 12 Apr, 2010 10:22 AMAriticle Courtesy: National Alliance of Peoples' Movements
Dear Saaathis,
You all must have got the word by now ...Narmada is in serious crisis ...Not just the people and the environemnt, but the very project itself today...And unjust politics is also at its peak again ...This is the last and critical leg of the SSP battle...
Thousands of us are to embark on an indefinite mass action of Narmada from April 11th and sit before the Narmada Control Authority from the 13th at Indore. The situation is very serious and highly politicized, since even as there are 2 lakh adiavasis, farmers, fish workers, labourers yet to be rehabilitated in the submergence area, only corruption has increased ten-fold and gross environmental non-compliance has been exposed by the latest Devender Pandey Committee.
Water Footprint Manual: State of the art - A method of water footprint assessment by the Water Footprint Network (November 2009)
Posted on 11 Apr, 2010 07:37 PMhe Water Footprint Manual, 2009 by the Water Footprint Network is a comprehensive and up-to-date outline of the method of water footprint assessment. It introduces
how water footprints can be calculated for individual processes and products, as well as for consumers, nations and businesses.
The concept is introduced as a comprehensive indicator of freshwater resources appropriation, as against the traditional and restricted measure of water withdrawal.
The hidden water use behind products are measured over the full supply chain and water consumption volumes are measured by source and polluted volumes by type of
pollution. All components of a total water footprint are specified geographically and temporally. Blue water (surface and groundwater), green water (rainwater stored
in the soil as soil moisture) and grey water (polluted water) footprints are defined and are included along with the indirect water use in measuring the overall water
footprints.
The core of the manual deals with the four distinct phases in water footprint assessment: (1) setting goals and scope; (2) water footprint accounting; (3) water
footprint sustainability assessment; (4) formulation of response. The goals and scope would vary for national governments, river basin authority, company etc. Water
footprint accounts give spatiotemporally explicit information on how water is appropriated for various human purposes. The manual articulates the need for clarity
about the inventory boundaries, about where to truncate the analysis, at what level of spatiotemporal explication and for which period of data when setting up a water
footprint account. It in addition deals with difficult questions like whether to include the water footprint of labour, transport or energy applied in a production
system in the assessment of the water footprint of the final product.
The manual then goes on to state the inventory boundaries of water footprint sustainability assessment. The sustainability of a water footprint is viewed upon from
different perspectives: the environmental, social and economic perspective. Besides, sustainability is measured at different levels: local (e.g. violation of local
environmental flow requirements), catchment or river basin level (e.g. contribution to the violation of environmental flow requirements downstream). In addition, the
water footprint of a product has implications beyond the level of a particular river basin. In the section on water footprint accounting the coherence between various
sorts of water footprint accounts is looked at. The manual presents complex equations explicating the water footprints due to processes and products and has sections
dealing with calculation of (a) green, blue and grey water footprint of growing a crop or tree (b) green and blue evapotranspiration using the CWR (Crop Water
Requirements) option in the FAO’s CROPWAT model (c) green and blue evapotranspiration using the ‘irrigation schedule option’ in the CROPWAT model. The manual also
presents the data sources for the calculating these.
The Water Footprint Manual (2009) by the Water Footprint Network (WFN) is a comprehensive and up-to-date outline of the method of water footprint assessment. It introduces how water footprints can be calculated for individual processes and products, as well as for consumers, nations and businesses.
The concept is introduced as a comprehensive indicator of freshwater resources appropriation, as against the traditional and restricted measure of water withdrawal. The hidden water use behind products are measured over the full supply chain and water consumption volumes are measured by source and polluted volumes by type of pollution. All components of a total water footprint are specified geographically and temporally. Blue water (surface and groundwater), green water (rainwater stored in the soil as soil moisture) and grey water (polluted water) footprints are defined and are included along with the indirect water use in measuring the overall water footprints.
Climate change impacts in drought and flood-affected Areas: Case studies in India - A report by the World Bank
Posted on 11 Apr, 2010 03:50 PMThis report by the World Bank discusses the climate changes in India and the disasters associated with these climate changes such as floods and droughts and their negative impact on agriculture, food production, livelihoods, security and the condition of the vulnerable groups in the country. The report goes on to discuss the policies undertaken by the Government of India to deal and adapt with these changes and the challenges faced in implementing these policies.
Water Storage: A strategy for climate change adaptation in the Himalayas - A report by ICIMOD
Posted on 10 Apr, 2010 05:24 PM
This report by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) highlights the phenomenon of climate change and argues that water storage will be a key strategy for climate change adaptation in the coming years.
The report discusses the importance of the Hindu Kush Himalayan ranges as an important source of water to a large section of the population and warns of the impending crisis of water scarcity and food insecurity in the regions of Asia, if water harvesting and conservation efforts are not undertaken. The document argues that water storage thus becomes a central issue, which is very complicated to implement, particularly in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
Joint Convergence Guidelines of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Integrated Watershed Management Programme, issued by the Ministry of Rural Development (April 2009)
Posted on 09 Apr, 2010 09:36 PMThe Joint Convergence Guidelines issued by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) in April 2009, attempts to bring about inter-sectoral convergence in the various watershed management programmes being implemented by the different departments under the MoRD. In particular, it deals with the convergence between the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) being implemented by the Department of Rural Development (DoRD) and the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) being implemented by the Department of Land Resources (DoLR).