Political

• New bill to penalize those wasting drinking water-Deccan Herald, Bangalore March 9
• Privatisation no solution to tackle water shortage in city- Deccan Herald March 9
• Water Crisis to worsen in city- Deccan Herald March 12
• City is the second highest water waster in country at 50.9% New Delhi top the list at 52.4%- Deccan Herald March 13

While all these questions remain unanswered and new ones add

The city gets thirstier under the scorching summer sun and the water vendors make fast buck in some instances as much as Rs 1000 for a tank load of water, a consortium of concerned organisations and institutions working on water and environment issues invite you to a panel discussion and film screenings on the use and abuse of water on March 22nd & 23rd 2010 at Ashirvad, 30 St. Mark Road Cross, Opp. State Bank of India at 5.45pm.

THE WELLS of Kalawad village in Junagadh district, Gujarat brim with water. The reason — construction of check dams by a peasant, Mr.

WORLD WATER DAY CELEBRATION

22 March 2010

National Workshop on

Water Conservation and Quality Challenges: Towards Adaptive Strategies

Organised by

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in collaboration with, UNICEF and Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)

A workshop on groundwater was organised by ACWADAM and Arghyam Trust in Pune in May 2009, that brought together several experts in the field, and explored diverse topics such as the importance of scale in groundwater resource planning and management, importance of aquifer typologies, participatory processes of groundwater management, groundwater regulation and groundwater linkages with watershed development, markets and policy matters.

The attempt of the workshop and research papers presented, was to highlight contemporary issues in groundwater management, and to look at it through the multiple lenses of hydrogeology, sociology, economics, livelihoods, environment, disasters and so on.

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore is looking to recruit a Research Assistant as part of the Land, Water and Livelihoods Programme (LWLP).

Invitation to participate in the National Seminar on Sustainability of Drinking water supply system with special reference to Multi Village schemes to be held at DSCE, Bangalore from March 22-23, 2010

Location    : Villages of Mewat, Haryana
Organiser  : S M Sehgal Foundation

Topic:Urban Rainwater Harvesting

Venue:Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

A one-day “Action plan workshop for the rejuvenation and sustenance of Arkavathi river basin”, was organised on 25th July 2009, by the Global Academy of Technology and Geological Society of India at Bangalore, to discuss the future of the dying Arkavathi river and Bangalore's precarious water situation, and to develop concurrent implementable action plans to address the problem. The Arkavathi is a tributary of the river Kaveri, originating in Nandi Hills in Chikkaballapur district, that provides about 20% of the total water requirements of Bangalore, with Kaveri providing the remaining 80%.