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15 tanks and 151 toilets built in 2011 to provide schools with water and sanitation': bRAINstorming
Posted on 30 Dec, 2011 02:34 PMArticle and Image Courtesy: International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA)
The newsletter focuses on all activities concerning rainwater harvesting, the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) and its partners. This issue summarizes work done during 2011.
First international advocacy planning meeting for water and sanitation activists'- 'WASH News and policy update
Posted on 30 Dec, 2011 12:31 PMContent courtesy: India WASH Forum
Confessions of an OD boy: The need to achieve a sustainable open defacation free intervention
Posted on 24 Dec, 2011 07:58 PMAuthor: Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan
Encephalitis deaths in India - The same story of poverty, neglect, disaster and disease, how long will this continue ?
Posted on 02 Dec, 2011 10:15 AMGuest post by : Aarti Kelkar-Khambete
Karnataka High Court Committee strongly discourages commercial involvement in lake management and rejuvenation
Posted on 23 Nov, 2011 03:57 PMContent and photo courtesy: Environment Support Group
On the contentious policy relating to privatization of lakes, the Justice N K Patil Committee appointed by the Karnataka High Court has recommended that private sector participation solely based on commercial interest is not desirable.
In a significant development, the Committee appointed under the Chairmanship of Justice Mr. N. K. Patil, Judge of the Karnataka High Court and Chairman High Court Legal Services Committee, in response to the Public Interest Litigation by Environment Support Group challenging the privatisation of management and rehabilitation of lakes in Bangalore (WP 817/2008), has strongly recommended that ““private sector participation solely based on consequential commercial interest” is not a desirable model” (Emphasis in original).
Status of water treatment plants in India - A report on their operational status by the Central Pollution Control Board
Posted on 23 Nov, 2011 11:47 AMThis document by the Central Pollution and Control Board (CPCB) describes the findings of a study that evaluated water treatment plants located across the country, for prevailing raw water quality, water treatment technologies, operational practices, chemical consumptio
Politicians for reform - Proceedings of the State Water Ministers’ workshop on rural water supply policy reforms in India - Cochin (Kerala) - (1999)
Posted on 22 Nov, 2011 10:01 AMThe workshop was hosted by Government of Kerala and the Water and Sanitation Program, South Asia with the Government of India, The World Bank Institute and the World Bank was held at Cochin, Kerala from December 7th to December 8th, 1999.
Mining India: Sustainably for growth – A report by Ernst & Young and ASSOCHAM
Posted on 20 Nov, 2011 09:36 AM
It deals with issues around capital raising, policy framework, efficiency and sustainability and provides a way forward for strategic acceleration of the benefits.
Assam’s strategy and action plan on climate change - Recommendations - First draft - ASTEC (2011)
Posted on 07 Nov, 2011 11:20 AMThis report by the Assam Science Technology & Environment Council (ASTEC) contains the compiled recommendation of three consultative workshops organized in Assam University, Gauhati University and
Impacts of climate change on public health in India - Paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives
Posted on 03 Nov, 2011 07:40 PMThis paper published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives briefly summarises the relevant literature and highlights the challenges and opportunities for innovative research in the context of the impact of changing temperatures and precipitation patterns due to climate change on the health of populations from developing countries such as India.