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Conservation - Reducing Water Usage
Water conservation in industry - A case study of ACC Damodhar Cement Works Limited
Posted on 17 Nov, 2009 03:48 PMThis work that included domestic waste-water recycling, reduction in river water usage, and by close circuiting of process water.won the
Water conservation in industry - A case study of Aban Power Company Limited (Karuppur)
Posted on 17 Nov, 2009 03:12 PMIt has achieved this through the use of dry low NOx burners, air cooled condensers, rainwater harvesting through building a pond, improving recovery in its reverse osmosis water treatment process and by increasing the cycle of concentration in its auxiliary cooling tower.
Water footprint : Accounting for the water used to produce goods and services implemented by Jain Irrigation
Posted on 13 Nov, 2009 06:23 AMJain Irrigation plan to do it with IFC, a member of World Bank Group.
3rd World Aqua Congress, Aqua Foundation, New Delhi
Posted on 05 Nov, 2009 06:30 PMAbout WAC '09
Water use efficiency includes any measure that reduces the amount of water used per unit of any given activity, consistent with the maintenance or enhancement of water quality.
Water use efficiency has a clear role to play in sustainable development, in other words, the use of the earth's resources by today's inhabitants while assuring that future generations have sufficient capacity to meet their own needs. Improving the efficiency of resource use comprises one means of meeting sustainable development goals.
Water harvesting, storage and conservation (WHSC - 2009) - IIT Kanpur
Posted on 05 Nov, 2009 01:25 PMIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur presents WHSC 2009. A three day conference which is expected to pave way for producing compendium of technological options, policy guidelines and implementing mechanisms for water harvesting, storage and conservation.
Objectives
We hope that WHSC-2009 will immensely benefits technocrats, policy makers and implementers to attain global excellence. Main objectives of this conference are:
- To assess the significance of water harvesting, storage and conservation to meet international water stipulate.
- To assess challenges related to water harvesting, storage and conservation technologies
- To engage stakeholder in issue-oriented discussion as to share experience and agree on a common plan of action
IUWM and participatory development:Community participation has a significant impact on the sustainability of the 3E's
Posted on 01 Nov, 2009 02:23 PMDepending upon how you see it, in the geographical expanse of India a train journey could be anything that one would wish it to be ...
National Institute of technology,Rourkela looking for a speaker
Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 03:42 PMLooking for a speaker who has initiated Water conservation,Rain water Harvesting etc for the Seminar we are hosting on December 20 ,at Hotel Swoosti Premium,Bhubaneswar,Orissa.
Bijoy K Das,
President - NITRAAB
National Institute of technology,Rourkela at Bhubaneswar
Contact - bijoydash@sify.com
Photo essay on water loss due to leaks in Mulbagal, Karnataka
Posted on 25 Oct, 2009 07:58 PMAs I had been waking up to the leaky tap in my new house for quite some time; I thought it would be interesting to look at the different ways water gets wasted. In this post I attempt to do a photo blog from my past photo collections on this subject from different parts of the country.
A leaky tap in a water consultant's bathroom
Posted on 25 Oct, 2009 06:10 PMIts been three weeks since I moved into my new rented apartment. It's a classic situation in which I am caught up in. I am a consultant working on "SUSTAINABLE WATER solutions", but I hardly have control on a leaky tap in my bath room. This leaky tap can fill up a bucket of water in a period of 2 hours. The capacity of my bucket will be around 30 liters.