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Call for Entries for the 'Quotes from the Earth' Environmental Film Festival 2014, Toxics Link & India International Centre, New Delhi
Posted on 11 Apr, 2014 04:09 PMGet more information on 'Quotes from the Earth'.
Know more about Toxics Link and India International Centre.
Invitation to the 'Workshop on CSR for Sanitation', Gramalaya & UNICEF-Chennai, Tiruchirappali, Tamil Nadu
Posted on 09 Apr, 2014 04:34 PMGet more information on the event.
Know more about Gramalaya.
Download the brochure and registration form to the event from below.
Invitation to the monsoon school on 'Perspectives on Environment, Society and Well-Being', Kalpavriksh, Pune, Maharashtra
Posted on 09 Apr, 2014 02:40 PMGet more information on the event.
Know more about Kalpavriksh.
Download the announcement of the event from below.
A picture paints a thousand words? So do comics!
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:31 PMAs a run up to World Water Day 2014, India Water Portal conducted a Grassroots Comics workshop with Field Facilitators, Barefoot Engineers and other field workers of the Dhara Vikas Programme.
Think about water while watching these movies
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:29 PMPeople learn and retain better through visual media. That's a fact. So what better way to bring attention to topics around the themes of water than by screening movies? That was the thought process behind organising an event on World Water Day with school students in Shimla.
A better, bluer Bangalore
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:26 PMIn honour of World Water Day 2014, the theme at the Green Bazaar, a community event run by The Alternative, was water. India Water Portal collaborated to add some 'blue' to the 'green'.
Catch water when it falls
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The water-energy nexus
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:20 PMThe theme of this year’s World Water Day was “energy-water nexus”. It was almost as if the topic was chosen keeping Western Uttar Pradesh in mind because the conflict between water and energy users in agriculture and industry has heightened here in the recent past.
The importance of transparency and data management
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:17 PMOn 22nd March 2014, Raipur celebrated World Water Day with senior government officials and officials from NGOs and other organisations presenting on the importance of NGOs in disseminating information to the people. They also highlighted the discrepancies in data collected between organisations and the need to improve on this if they were to make a difference to society.
Does tapping regional springs affect the Western Ghats?
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:08 PMThe Western Ghats are made of up basalt rocks, which were formed from lava flows. These rocks are also known as water buckets as they are able to retain a lot of water. This unique feature helps create springs. At an event organised by IIT Mumbai and India Water Portal to mark World Water Day, Dr. Jared Buono talked about how springs were revived in Panchgani with the help of spring boxes.