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Droughts and Floods
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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Extreme weather warning!
Posted on 11 Jul, 2013 04:04 PMWe sat in a plush climate-controlled room and deliberated climate change as the outside world collapsed around us..
![The flooded Bagmati river](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bagmati_flood.jpg?itok=a_nSwqcp)
Floods in Assam affect one lakh people - Dhemaji worst hit
Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 11:31 AMFlood fury hits Assam
![The flooded plains of Brahamputra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/320px-brahmaputra_plains_in_goalpara_district_of_assam_857.jpg?itok=0o5j0Ouh)
Call for 'Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism' for women, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
Posted on 06 Jul, 2013 05:36 PMOffered by
Objective of the Fellowship
The purpose of the Fellowship is to encourage young mid career women journalists to develop their potential by pursuing meaningful projects without having to work under the pressures of short deadlines.
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Call for abstracts, International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM - 2014), CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 12:11 PMOrganisers
Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM)
Venue
Kozikhode, Kerala
About the symposium
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The Himalayan states - are they India's crown jewels or distant cousins?
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 10:25 AMLeft, right, up, down...bump, bump, bump! That was me… being thrown about on all sides of the jeep that I was in. No, I wasn’t off-roading! I was on an investigative mission to Pinrow, a village in Nainital district, Uttarakhand from my home. I was investigating the impact of the state government's push for 100% of child births to happen in the hospitals.
![Nandadevi at sunrise](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/nandadevi_at_sunrise.jpg?itok=Di51jQ9J)
Toilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 10:00 AMToilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
The Planning commission has found that 73% of rural India practices open defecation despite many sanitation programmes encouraged by the government. The main reason for this is the unavailability of toilets.
![Open defecation continues due to lack of toilets](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/od.png?itok=c-yfw14s)
An appeal to donate generously for the Uttarakhand tragedy, Peoples Science Institute, Dehradun
Posted on 27 Jun, 2013 12:01 PMAppeal by
About the appeal
Havoc created by the Uttarakhand deluge is unprecedented. Cloudbursts, heavy rainfall and losses incurred in terms of human life and property have turned an exceptional natural phenomenon into an ongoing grieving tragedy.
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Uttarakhand - ravaged by God or Governance?
Posted on 26 Jun, 2013 07:23 AMIf you thought that Uttarakhand was a land populated solely by tourists, I wouldn’t blame you. After all, that’s been the focus of the media in relation to who’s been affected by the recent floods – pilgrims at the Char Dhams and at Hemkund Sahib. The numbers are staggering, no doubt.
![House washed away by the Uttarakhand floods](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pickofweek4_1.jpg?itok=XOgPoNls)