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Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz international prize for water
Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 04:35 PMOn 21 October 2002, His Royal Highness Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz – Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General – announced in Riyadh that nominations were being accepted for a new global Prize to be awarded biannually: the "Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water".
The Prize Council, headed by His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, includes leading scholars from around the world. The General Secretariat of the Prize is headquartered in the Prince Sultan Research Center for Environment, Water and Desert, at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
National Institute of technology,Rourkela looking for a speaker
Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 03:42 PMLooking for a speaker who has initiated Water conservation,Rain water Harvesting etc for the Seminar we are hosting on December 20 ,at Hotel Swoosti Premium,Bhubaneswar,Orissa.
Bijoy K Das,
President - NITRAAB
National Institute of technology,Rourkela at Bhubaneswar
Contact - bijoydash@sify.com
Be the Change' Conference on Food, Health and Climate Change, Bhoomi Network, Bangalore
Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 01:13 PMBhoomi Network is organising a 2 day 'Be the Change' Conference on Food, Health and Climate Change at St.John's Auditorium, Kormangala, Bangalore - 35.
Hydrofracturing - A new approach to revitalize bore-wells
Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 05:38 PMHydro-fracturing is a new approach to revitalise bore wells to improve its yield, by injecting water at high pressure in the failed bore wells to break up fissures, clean away mud and other impurities, thus bringing it in contact with adjacent water bearing bodies, and thereby yield water.
National symposium on climate change and rainfed agriculture, CRIDA, Hyderabad
Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 12:36 PMSymposium on Climate Change and Rainfed Agriculture
Date: February 18-20, 2010
Venue: Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Award-winning initiatives taken up by the City Managers' Association Karnataka on urban water management - Case studies
Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 12:36 PMThe following case studies describe the work of the City Managers' Association Karnataka in water management covering rainwater harvesting, watershed development, drinking water and water body restoration initiatives, set in an urban context. These initiatives were implemented in association with urban local bodies - Town Municipal Council Kundapura, Town Municipal Council Hosadurga, City Municipal Council Chitradurga, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) and the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC).
Electrical well logging techniques for ground water exploration
Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 08:12 AMA concise explaination of the techniques used for groundwater exploration.Electrical well logging is a kind of geophysical logging tool for ground water exploration. It involves the continuous recording of electrical resistance, resistivity and spontaneous potential (SP) of formations of a drilled bore hole. This helps to identify the formations and also delineate freshwater aquifers from saline aquifers.It is also used to delineate the fracture system in hard-rock terrain, for rejuvenation of poor/low-yielding bore wells.
Mumbai college -- need a speaker on water quality
Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 06:02 PM
We are planning a conference on water purification processes in February 2010. Can we seek participation of an expert in giving a talk to the students for 45-60 minutes?
Regards,
Dr R S Waghmare
Thadomal Shahani Engg College
Rd No 32 TPS III Near National College Bandra(W) Mumbai 400050
Floods in AP,India - Concept Note to Enable the Flood Affected Communities in Rehabilitation and Disaster Management
Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 05:58 PM'Alliance for 5 Life Sustaining Elements' ( ALSE), is a group of 6 senior NGOs (list is available in the concept note) who are working in the rural development sector since 2 to 3 decades in Andhra Pradesh, have collective