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WIO press release on COP 15- Orissa Farmers’ Agenda for the World Leaders attending COP 15
Posted on 08 Dec, 2009 03:23 PMSambalpur, 7th December 2009 - The Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 15 and COP/MOP 5) begins today, just a day after the Orissa Legislative Assembly’s current session was wrapped up in a hush half way through. The otherwise strong and majority government of Orissa has been i
Water productivity - Approaches to understand and improve this concept
Posted on 08 Dec, 2009 12:21 AMIn a free market where efficiency and value for money are the driving factors, the consumers become conscious (and highly selective) in what they are buying and what they get out of it. Who would buy a less fuel efficient car or for that matter an electric appliance which consumes more electricity for the amount of work it does?
Training on DEWATS project management, CDD, Bangalore
Posted on 07 Dec, 2009 06:35 PMCDD is organising a 3 days training on DEWATS Project Management from 6th to 8th January 2010 in Bangalore. The main objective of the training is to introduce decision makers to specific project management skills required for planning, financing, implementing and managing DEWATS projects.
CDD Society requires permanent staff and senior consultants for its office in Bangalore
Posted on 07 Dec, 2009 06:25 PMNo mention of water issues in the high-level discussions in Copenhagen
Posted on 07 Dec, 2009 12:56 PMEver since the tide of COP 15 related news swelled across the media and press releases in various parts of the world, I have been wondering if climate issues are different from that of water. Perhaps water doesn't count as a valid climatic element or may be it doesn't make the argument any stronger than what carbon emissions and global warming can do!
Speakers and presentations at the IWMI : Bharat Sharma speaks on the use of GIS for estimating basin level water productivity
Posted on 07 Dec, 2009 02:25 AM
11th World Filtration Congress, Austrian Chemical Society GOCH, APRIL 16-20, 2012 in Graz, Austria
Posted on 04 Dec, 2009 06:40 PMOrganizer: Austrian Chemical Society GOCH
Venue: Graz -World Heritage Site
Filtech 2011 Wiesbaden Germany
Posted on 04 Dec, 2009 06:37 PMFiltech 2011 March 22. – 24. 2011, Wiesbaden, Germany
Water Evaluation And Planning(WEAP) in the Indus and Ganges basin
Posted on 04 Dec, 2009 11:57 AMThis couldn't have been more relevant to the conversation that we are having here.
Mission of the Basin Focal Projects(BFP)- A workshop
Posted on 04 Dec, 2009 03:51 AMIt isn't just about doing executing a project and publishing results in journals. The projects cease to be of any significance of the findings do not get translated into impacts on the ground. Quite clearly it can be seen that in today's world, water cuts across a lot of development issues.