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Last week’s strategically timed declaration by India’s Jairam Ramesh, to set numerical targets for emissions, is a coup of sorts. Coming on the heels of U.S. administration’s shelving of the much hyped Climate and Energy Bill, this not only proves that India’s commitments on the climate front are more than honourable, but also places pressure on U.S. to perform on its climate commitments.

The BALWOIS 2010 Conference on Water Observation and Information Systems for Decision Support will be organised from 25 to 29 May in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. We are sending you short information, all information you can find on the website

A twist on RWH : fogwater harvesting in Nepal:

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Using GIS in Water Quality: The website  contains several research papers on using GIS in Water Quality.

 This report found on the World Health Organisation site has been brought out by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, that tracks the progress on target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which is "To halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation".

2008 being the International Year of Sanitation, the report highlights the importance of sanitation, as being the crucial stepping stone to health , which offers:

Forwarded to the Portal by: Preeti Gupta, WES-Net

The Greenpeace have undertaken a lot of commendable work in the field of climate change. This link takes you through their climate change campaigns involving the masses.

The World Business Council For Sustainable Development has developed a Global Water Tool which organizations can use to map their water use, and get a perspective on its use in their work.

The paper published in the Journal of Limnology begins by highlighting the problem of the gradual deterioration in the quality of lakes and informs that lakes are suffering from different stress factors and need to be restored using different approaches. The paper goes on to discuss the different approaches and technologies that can be used to restore lakes.

The Village Tank Cascade Systems of Sri Lanka, is a report on the traditional technology of water and drought management.

Its written by C M Madduma Bandara, of Kyoto University, Japan.

The learnings of the report may be useful for countries whose villages and towns have innovated their water cascade systems to meet their demand for water.