Ecology and Environment

Land is used for agriculture, for growing forests, for grazing animals, for mining, for installing industries and for construction of houses, roads, railways, etc. For sustainable development and prosperity of any country, the proper and wise use of the land is required.

GTZ Ecosan Program (www.gtz.de/en) has compiled ecosan materials from several organisations into a CD of capacity building resource material. This CD can be downloaded from this page in its entireity.

An overview of the water-related aspects of Sikkim from CGWB Eastern Region

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The Water Resources Department of Karnataka has a lot of relevant information on the river systems in Karnataka, irrigation, water resource development projects in Karnataka, notifications and orders, performance budgeting and allocation.

It deals with the (a) inequities in sectoral distribution and inadequacy in availability of water (b)  inefficiency in use of water in domestic and agricultural sector (c) depleting ground water resource (d) inadequate treatment of watersheds (e) deteriorating surface and groundwater quality (f) degradation of traditional and community owned tanks and (g) siltation in river basins and command a

Image & Content Courtesy: Sri Lanka Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum (SLEJF)

The Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists(APFEJ) invites nominations for INTERNATIONAL GREEN PEN AWARDS.

The International Green Pen Award is presented each year at the APFEJ Annual World Congress for environmental journalists who have made a significant contribution in promoting environmental journalism.

The last date for receipt of nominations is August 31, 2009 Entries (including photocopies) must be submitted in the surface mail by August 31,2009 and sent to: Dharman Wickremaratne, Director, Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists(APFEJ), P.O.Box 26, 434/3 Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka. E-mail: ejournalists@gmail.com.

The website of the ENVIS Center for Kerala:
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It has a Status of the Environment report:
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There is also a report on water-related diseases:

The report prepared by Arid Communities and Technologies (ACT) Kutch, Gujarat on behalf of Sahajeevan Trust aims to prepare a guideline for groundwater legislation to protect drinking water sources in the taluka.

This papers models the saline water intrusion in the Bardez taluk of Goa.

The study is replete with hydrogeological maps and data. These include topographic contours, soil, landuse, rainfall, geology, location of observation wells etc.

The Sikkim State of the Environment Report from the ENVIS site. 

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