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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.
Amateur film makers required in Kolkata for documenting Student Science Projects
Posted on 13 Nov, 2009 06:05 PMDate: 17th to 21st November 2009
Venue: Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata
Job Description:
At the Jawaharlal Nehru National Science Exhibition, school students will be presenting their projects. We require film makers who will engage the students in a conversation about their project and film the same.
Volunteers required in Kolkata for a National Children's Science Exhibition
Posted on 13 Nov, 2009 05:56 PMDate: 17th to 21st November 2009
Venue: Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata
Job Description:
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.
National Civil Engineering Student Symposium, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Posted on 12 Nov, 2009 03:39 PMNational Symposium on the Civil Engineering organized by the Department of Civil Engineering IIT Bombay.A platform for fresh, original and innovative ideas of young, ignited minds from universities across India in field of Civil Engineering
Meeting on injustice to Dalits in relief and rehabilitation -- proceedings
Posted on 11 Nov, 2009 06:52 PM
Using GIS mapping for Urban Flood Management in Chennai
Posted on 05 Nov, 2009 04:30 PMFor a GIS zealot like me, this is breaking news on the Indian mapping front. Finally a GIS application for risk-mapping and management of floods in India!
The Flood Risk Mapping Study, funded by the Water Resources wing of the Public Works Department to a tune of Rs 2,17 crores, is an initiative of the Tamil Nadu State Government. It is supported by the Centre's Department of Science and Technology and Survey of India in the research component of the project. This one-year project is being handled by Anna University’s Institute of Remote Sensing (IRS), Chennai.
ASHWAS - A people's survey of water and sanitation in Karnataka (2009)
Posted on 05 Nov, 2009 04:17 PMThis report includes the findings of the ASHWAS survey (A Survey of Household Water and Sanitation), a participatory survey carried out by Arghyam, that included 28 districts of Karnataka covering more than 17,200 households across 172 gram panchayats (GPs). This was a peoples' survey, and the surveyors were selected from the respective communities that included students, women from self help groups, local NGO partners and other volunteers.
Arghyam is looking for a Project Manager for their Technology Division
Posted on 04 Nov, 2009 11:54 AMThinking about giving back to society? Looking for an opportunity to do something meaningful and use your skills and experience to contribute to the lives of the disadvantaged? Come and join a small team of like-minded individuals working together with people and groups across the country on the issue of water.
Everyday more than 1000 children die of preventable, water related diseases in India. At least 30 million people don’t have access to safe drinking water in urban India, and 40 million live in slums without adequate sanitation facilities. And the situation is only going to worsen. Water is likened to oil, only much more central to our very lives and well-being. Globally, it is increasingly being seen as the burning issue of this century.
Shodh Yatra in Orissa and UP : Lessons in understanding the communities in different geographies and environment
Posted on 04 Nov, 2009 06:20 AM
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
What kind of a walk must have Ralph Waldo Emerson had, to pen down these lines?