Events

Organizer: Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) Indian Institute of Science

Venue: Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) - SID Seminar Hall

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Organizer: Centre for Science and Environment

Venue: Centre for Science and Environment, 41 Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi

Description:

The water and sewage management in cities will determine the quality of life in urban India. Most cities are today water stressed, unable to cope with the water demand of the growing urban populations and to treat the resulting wastewater.

Organizer: Pradip Saha

Topic: Screening of the film- Mean Sea Level.  Directed by Pradip Saha for CSE

Venue: Alliance Francaise De Bangalore

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Around 7500 Kms from the heart of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] in Geneva or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] secretariat in Bonn, Ghoramara and Sagar islands are going through their own testimony of climate change related phenomena.

Organiser: YETI Student Volunteers

Venue: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Description:

Young Ecologists Talk & Interact (YETI) is a conference for students and researchers working in the discipline of ecology in India. This event is meant to serve as a friendly, inspiring platform for early-career ecologists to present and discuss their work, exchange ideas, and may be even strike up collaborations with contemporaries from all over the country.

Organizer: Institute of Water Policy

Venue: Raffles City Convention Center: Canning Ballroom, Singapore

Topic:

• Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (IDWA)

Organizer: National Institute of Hydrology

Topics:

• Need for Hydrological Investigations
• Conventional Techniques and methods for Hydrological Investigations;
• Application of Remote Sensing and GIS
• Application of isotopic techniques in surface water and groundwater investigations;
• Advance techniques for measurement of soil erosion and reservoir sedimentation
• Advance instrumentation for hydrological investigations; and
• Advance computing techniques for hydrological data analysis.

Organizer: Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation (WEDO)

Topics:

• Making more surface water available
• Sustainable and enduring solutions for water

Venue: Anna University, Chennai

Ecosan Services Foundation in collaboration with the Sustainable Sanitation and Water Resources Management Network Asia (SSWRMNA) is offering a SSWM Trainers course.

Venue: Pune

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The training of trainer’s course modules will focus on teaching methods and the design of target group oriented SSWM modules to optimize knowledge transfer. It will enable trainers to design and conduct their own SSWM courses incorporating the philosophy and principles of adult learning in sustainable sanitation and water management scenario.

Ecosan Services Foundation in collaboration with the Sustainable Sanitation and Water Resources Management Network Asia (SSWRMNA) is offering a SSWM Expert course.

Venue: Pune

Description: 

Water resources are under increasing pressure. Population growth, urbanization and a steep increase in water consumption for domestic uses, agriculture and industry has created a water crisis. Climate change is exacerbating the problems of water availability. This scenario leads to water scarcity and water-conflicts worldwide and seriously undermines progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.