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Conservation - Reducing Water Usage
Sowing the seeds of change
Posted on 07 Aug, 2013 07:53 PMTill a few decades ago, most people in India grew vegetables and fruits in their own gardens. Then something changed. We shifted from 'farming for food' to 'farming for money'. The start of the ‘green revolution’ meant that production increased but so did the farmer's dependency on chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides.
![Garden irrigated by a single pot of water](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sow_1.jpg?itok=Q0JMpFQD)
Waterless in Whitefield- Learn, discuss & find solutions to your water woes, Jagriti Theatre, Bangalore
Posted on 07 Aug, 2013 12:24 PMHosted by
About the event
Water is a rapidly diminishing resource, the basis of life.
Learn about Whitefield’s water usage and issues, discover solutions, and find out what you can do to help solve Whitefield’s water woes.
![Jagriti Theatre](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jagriti.png?itok=NfF0Hx0A)
Touched by very little water
Posted on 01 Aug, 2013 11:54 AMAuthor and conservationist, Anupam Mishra has spent decades promoting water conservation and management. Through his travels across various states of India, he has been studying and teaching the time-tested techniques of rainwater harvesting.
![Kunds and tankas have been used to collect water](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kunds.jpg?itok=7cWwToz3)
Call for Abstracts - Fourth National Research Conference on Climate Change,Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Posted on 30 Jul, 2013 12:49 PMOrganisers
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Water for sale - to the highest bidder!
Posted on 25 Jul, 2013 01:02 PMDid you know that the planet would die in three days if it ran out of water? Water is a basic necessity and the United Nations recognized the right to it as a basic human right in 2010. Isn’t it ironic that we are still allowing a few utility companies privatise it, speculate over it and control it?
![Rising cost of water Source: K.N. Balraj](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_privatization_0.jpg?itok=vTT7TLyO)
Rainwater harvesting saves college lakhs of rupees
Posted on 20 Jul, 2013 11:04 AMYenepoya Medical and Dental College, some 15 kilometres away from Mangalore city near Delarekatte, is located in a developing neighbourhood; three other medical colleges, many schools and the Mangalore University are all situated in the same area. A software park is also expected to come up shortly.
![Rainwater harvesting pond in Yenepoya College](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_0263.jpg?itok=7Fl3200V)
Applications invited for Research Fellowship Scheme, Sitaram Jindal Foundation
Posted on 15 Jul, 2013 06:03 PMOffered by
Sitaram Jindal Foundation (SJ Foundation)
About the scheme
The Fellowship is for supporting individual investigators in research and development leading to applications of innovations
Fields of research
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One year course in ' Science and Management for Sustainable Living', Bhoomi College, Bangalore
Posted on 15 Jul, 2013 02:44 PMAbout the organisers
Course period
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Training programme on Sustainable Community Based Sanitation,Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination Society, Bangalore
Posted on 15 Jul, 2013 02:13 PMOrganiser details
Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society
Venue
Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS)
Survey # 205, Kommagaffa Road
Bandemath,Kengeri Satellite Town
Bangalore
Objective of the conference
![CDDS](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cdds.png?itok=Ez7LLpFq)
Invite to a book release 'Ecological and Environmental reporting in India- A handbook for media,NGOs and people', Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai
Posted on 15 Jul, 2013 01:14 PMOrganisers
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
Venue
BNHS, Hornbill House,
Dr Salik Ali Chowk
Shahid Bhagt Singh Marg
Mumbai-1
About the book
![BNHS, India](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bnhs.png?itok=OHVmOA9h)