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WaterAid India is looking for a Programme Officer - Policy Research and Rights
Posted on 27 Jan, 2010 01:02 PM

WaterAid

WaterAid India - Programme Officer (Policy Research and Rights), New Delhi

WaterAid is an international non-governmental organisation focused exclusively on improving poor people’s access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in developing countries. WaterAid is an equal opportunities employer.

"India: Water Need to be Double the Supply in 20 Years" : Droplets, e-newsletter, Jan 2010
A monthly newsletter for water professionals that highlights the need for doubling India's water supply to meet its projected demand in 20 years Posted on 27 Jan, 2010 12:33 PM

Droplets e-Newsletter

Announcement for small grants and fellowships for work on toxicity, waste and pollution,Environmental Equity and Justice Partnership (EEJP), 2010
This is an announcement on availability of small grants & fellowship for work on toxicity, waste & pollution in India by Environmental Equity and Justice Partnership (EEJP) Posted on 25 Jan, 2010 04:10 PM

Small Grants and Fellowships Available for Work on Toxicity, Waste and Pollution in India

Environmental Equity and Justice Partnership (EEJP) announces the launch of second phase of its grant program. Over next three years the program will work towards ‘securing environmental justice, especially for poor and the marginalized who are often expected to bear more than their share of environmental burdens’.

Towards the attainment of this larger goal, EEJP strives to catalyse grassroots initiatives, trigger new imagination and perspectives, encourage crossover linkages, and provide greater opportunities to connect to environmental thinking. This it seeks to accomplish through its two components -- Environmental Small Grants (for organisations) and Environmental Fellowship (for individuals)

Monthly magazine-Dams, Rivers & People, Sep-Oct 2009, Oct-Nov 2009, Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Issue of the monthly magazine from South Asia Network on Dams Rivers and People (SANDRP) - Dams, Rivers & People Posted on 25 Jan, 2010 12:56 PM

Dams,Rivers & People

Invitation for proposals in the water sector under USAID’s Development Grants Program, 2010
A request for applications in the water sector for the USAIDs Development Grants Program, 2010 Posted on 24 Jan, 2010 04:04 PM

USAID

SourceDGP – RFA – Request for Applications No. M/OAA/GRO/EGAS-DGP-10-001

 Proposals [under this sector at the USAID's Development Grants Program] will be considered in the following areas:

Water law, Poverty, and Development - Water Sector reforms in India: A book by Phillepe Cullet
This monograph examines water law regulations and reform in the present decade, encompassing environmental, social, economic, and human rights aspects of water as a natural resource. Posted on 24 Jan, 2010 02:58 PM

Water law for the 21st century - National and International aspects of water law reform in India: A book analyzing legal issues under international law
A book on the water law reforms in India and its associated human rights, social, health and environmental aspects. Posted on 24 Jan, 2010 02:13 PM

In the face of growing freshwater scarcity, most countries of the world are taking steps to conserve their water and foster its sustainable use. Water crises range from concerns of drinking water availability and/or quality, the degradation or contamination of freshwater, and the allocation of water to different users. To meet the challenge, many countries are undergoing systemic changes to the use of freshwater and the provision of water services, thereby leading to greater commercialization of the resource as well as a restructuring of the legal, regulatory, technical and institutional frameworks for water.

Summer course-Agenda for survival,CSE, June 1- 30, 2010
An interdisciplinary month-long summer certificate course on environment/development issues
Posted on 24 Jan, 2010 01:23 PM

This interdisciplinary month-long summer certificate course on environment/development issues allows participants to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment and development; poverty; democracy, equity and justice.

Course design: Classroom lectures, seminars, several local field excursions, a week-long field visit to rural India, together with innovative, challenging project individual and/or group work. Participants are given an intense briefing on issues that are of concern to India and other developing countries. Field trips and meetings with communities serve to illustrate innovations and eco-restoration efforts that communities make to enable them to face the challenges of managing their natural resources base.

Certificate course- Beginner's guide to climate change, CSE, 2010
An e-primer on the phenomenon, science and politics of climate change from a developing country perspective:This certificate course is a beginner's guide to climate change. Posted on 24 Jan, 2010 01:16 PM

We know that the threat of climate change is real and urgent and we also know that combating this threat requires drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in the industrialized world.But as greenhouse gases are linked to economic growth, climate change requires the world to share growth between nations and people.

Copenhagen cartoon

Address by Italian delegation on environmental technologies, Delhi, 2010
Delegation of companies in environmental technologies from Italy to address the Indo Italian chamber of commerce & industry Posted on 24 Jan, 2010 12:31 PM

The Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce & Industry will be receiving a delegation of Companies from Italy from 22nd to 27th February in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Delhi.