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Bhisti community in Kolkata usurped by taps - A film from Video Volunteers
Posted on 18 Apr, 2011 12:15 PM
Urban lakes - A series of current articles from Down To Earth magazine
Posted on 14 Apr, 2011 07:11 PMDelhi
On June 7, 2000, the Delhi Jal Board and the Municipal Corporation announcement that they would create 150 ponds for rainwater harvesting. TAPAS, a non-governmental organisation, approached the Delhi High Court on June 22, 2000, to force government authorities to improve water availability and quality in the national capital. It sought restoration of neglected lakes and depressions in the city as well as the implementation of the announcement made by the authorities.
Hyderabad
The Andhra Pradesh High Court is hearing three different public interest petitions to protect the Hussainsagar lake. One seeks to prevent construction on or around the lake or its catchment area. Another aims to prevent heavy siltation due to annual immersion of idols in the lake during religious occasions.
Joint Expert Meeting of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WGII and WGIII on Human Settlement, Water, Energy and Transport Infrastructure - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies, 22nd to 24th March 2011, Calcutta
Posted on 22 Mar, 2011 09:58 AM
Organizer: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Venue: Calcutta, West Bengal
Water job via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated 24th February, 2011
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 11:54 AMContent Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
- Business Development Manager
Water for People
Location: Kolkata
Last Date: 15th March, 2011
Ujaan: Festival for the Sunderbans, 10th to 12th March 2011, Frasergunj-Bakkhali, Sunderban district, West Bengal
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 11:31 AM
Organizer: Ujaan
Venue: Frasergunj-Bakkhali, Sunderban district, West Bengal
The Dam Safety Bill (2010) – Ministry of Water Resources
Posted on 27 Dec, 2010 11:00 AMThe Dam Safety bill, 2010 introduced in the Lok Sabha in August 2010 and approved by the cabinet earlier this year was referred to the Standing Committee on Water Resources, which was scheduled to submit its report within three months. The bill which is still pending seeks to provide for the surveillance, inspection and operation of all dams of certain parameters to ensure their safe functioning.
Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated December 22, 2010
Posted on 22 Dec, 2010 11:27 AMContent Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
- State Consultant, Water Safety and Security
Ma Foi Consulting Solutions Limited
International Symposium on “System Intensification towards Food & Environmental Security”, CWSS, BCKV, Nadia, West Bengal
Posted on 10 Dec, 2010 05:17 PM 
Paving the way for the control of Cholera and Typhoid fever in Kolkata - A research project report of the NICED-IVI collaboration
Posted on 13 Nov, 2010 08:43 AMThis collaborative research work between National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata and International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul under the Diseases of the Most Impoverished (DOMI) Program, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to give useful information for the prevention and control of typhoid fever and cholera. The aim is to accelerate the introduction of new generation vaccines against cholera, shigellosis, and typhoid fever, through research and capacity-building.
The burden of cholera in the slums of Kolkata - A community based study by NICED
Posted on 12 Nov, 2010 12:29 AMThis paper by National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) is based on a prospective, community based study in an impoverished urban site in Kolkata in order to measure the burden of cholera, describe its epidemiology, and search for potential risk factors that could be addressed by public health strategies. The study population was enumerated at the beginning and end of the study period. Surveillance through five field outposts and two referral hospitals for acute, watery, non-bloody diarrhoea was conducted from May 2003 to April 2004.