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Droughts and Floods
Free course on 'Climate Change Reporting ', Thomson Reuters Foundation, New Delhi, September 30 - October 4, 2013
Posted on 12 Sep, 2013 11:53 AMFor more information on the week long course, please click here.
To apply for the course, please click here.
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Coping with floods and erosion in the Brahmaputra plains
Posted on 11 Sep, 2013 11:15 AMI began my latest journey in the land of the red river and the blue hills, Assam from Dibrugarh. The first time I saw the Brahmaputra at Guwahati many years ago, I was fascinated on looking at the mighty stream of water in its full glory after the monsoons.
![Floods in Assam](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/floods_1.jpg?itok=Zv4PlvIK)
Applications invited for the post of Civil Engineer, Livolink Foundation, Bhubaneswar
Posted on 05 Sep, 2013 10:35 AMFor more information on the organisation, Livolink Foundation, please click here.
To view details on the vacancy, please see attachment below.
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Food Security Bill sees light of the day
Posted on 01 Sep, 2013 10:28 PMPOLICY MATTERS
Food security bill passed
![Affordable food for all (Source: Google Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pds_140629f.jpg?itok=F3WzwQRf)
The missing water bodies of Western Uttar Pradesh
Posted on 01 Sep, 2013 11:54 AMTraditional water bodies such as bawdis and talabs have long since been an integral part of rural life in India providing water, fish and sometimes even just a venue for people to chit chat. The flat plains in Western Uttar Pradesh, where the Ganga and Yamuna rivers meet, is no exception.
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Invite to Bengaluru Seed Festival, Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA), Bangalore
Posted on 30 Aug, 2013 10:22 AMFor more details on the event , please click here.
The brochure on the seed festival can be viewed as an attachemnt below or accessed here.
![Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/asha.png?itok=y_gLWCb7)
The Water Catchers
Posted on 23 Aug, 2013 09:58 PM'The Water Catchers’ is a story of an unlikely hero, an unassuming boy living in the concrete, water-deprived city of Mumbai. The boy named Chintu, has a simple wish - to find water in the village called Tintodan of his forefathers.
![A children's book on water Source-Clker](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rwh_2.png?itok=GuuSbnEW)
Launch of global competition for innovators - 'Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development', Stockholm
Posted on 23 Aug, 2013 10:29 AMFor more information on the programme, please click here
For further details please download the concept paper from below.
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Tehri dam nears danger mark
Posted on 19 Aug, 2013 02:33 AMWater level in Tehri dam near danger mark
![Tehri dam in lean season](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tehri_0.jpg?itok=5716_Jl7)
Angioplasty for groundwater or a heart attack waiting to happen?
Posted on 16 Aug, 2013 10:38 AM“What is in a name? That which we call a rose, would smell as sweet by any other”, goes the line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. There is quite a lot in a name, Juliet, especially if attaching the wrong terminology to a process is used to appropriate public funds - Rs. 800 crores, in fact.
![Shirpur, Maharashtra of the 'Shirpur Model' fame](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/shirpur_location_0.jpg?itok=xaMH062X)