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Wastewater recycle and reuse: The need of the hour - Report of a workshop in April 2012 organised by Ministry of Urban Development

This article by Surashree Shome describes the proceedings of the one day workshop on "Wastewater Recycle and Reuse: The need of the hour'

Surashree Shome

Posted on 18 Jul, 2012 07:12 PM

A one day workshop on "Wastewater Recycle and Reuse: The need of the hour' was organized by Ministry of Urban Development, Government of Indi

Electronics City Industrial Association manages water needs of the nearby villages in the area

This article provides the details of Electronics City Industrial Association, which manages water needs of communities in the surrounding areas

Arjun Agrawal

Posted on 09 Jul, 2012 08:06 PM

Electronics City Industrial Association (ELCIA) was established in 1992. In 1997, the maintenance and upkeeping of Electronics City was handed over to ELCIA by the Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KEONICS), which handled the responsibility previously.

Industries call for water conservation - Proactive disclosure on water use by industries will go a long way

This article by Romit Sen discusses some of the steps that can be undertaken by industries to conserve water

Romit Sen

Posted on 25 May, 2012 03:48 PM

India’s rapidly growing economy is driving increased water usage across different sectors. Various estimates and projections indicate an increasing trend in water demand for agriculture, industrial and domestic uses in the coming decades.

Water commercialization, a threat to human rights - A Gandhian prospect

This article argues that commercialisation of water is a threat to the basic human rights and must be solved by encouraging local level water management practices

Satyendra Tripathi

Posted on 17 May, 2012 11:00 AM

Providing usable water is one of the toughest challenges that most of the countries of the world are facing today. And in an era of liberalization and domination of capital centric policies commercialization of water is not a shocking step.

Privatisation of urban water supply in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh - An update from Manthan Adyayan Kendra

Khandwa is a medium-sized town located in western Madhya Pradesh. The 'Khandwa water supply augmentation project' has been awarded to Vishwa Utilities Pvt. Ltd., a Hyderabad based company under the Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) basis for water supply augmentation to the town, for the next 25 years. The project has been under execution since October 2009. The private party would supply water to the town @ Rs 11.95 per KL. The raw water for this would be pumped from a reservoir 51 km, away from the town. This report by Gaurav Dwivedi and Rehmat, Manthan Adhyayan Kendra deals with the privatisation of urban water supply in the town.

Gaurav Dwivedi

Rehmat

Posted on 09 May, 2012 09:53 AM

Startling conditionalities

Appointment of young professionals as Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows - Some questions

There has been quite a bit of news and excitement about the Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows recently appointed by selecting young professionals from top professionals institutions like IITs, IIMs, TISS and others. It is a welcome idea that large numbers of professionals have been attracted to be such Fellows. It is to be seen if they will deliver what is expected out of them, especially while working in the districts affected by left wing extremism. I wish them all success but the history of such ideas and experiments have failed globally and we should have deeper analysis of them, says Achyut Das of Agragamee, Orissa.

Achyut Das

Posted on 23 Apr, 2012 11:19 AM

The critics of the PMRDFS have already started asking questions as follows:

Water law in a globalised world - Philippe Cullet discusses the need for creating a new framework

Water issues are rapidly acquiring a global dimension, while water laws remain rooted in specific regions. In this paper published in the Journal of Environmental Law, Philippe Cullet examines the need for a new framework for water law that allows for linkages with the global water cycle as well as human rights and environmental law.

Philippe Cullet

Posted on 09 Apr, 2012 11:09 PM

1. Introduction

Trends in private sector participation in the Indian water sector: A critical review - A Water and Sanitation Programme publication

This report published by the Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) involves a study that involved a review of PPPs in the urban water supply sector since the 1990s, explores the trends emerging in the sector and analyses the factors that have facilitated or impeded the development and implementation of PPPs in the sector.

Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)

Posted on 23 Feb, 2012 05:54 PM

The study also analyses the direction in which the sector is heading with respect to private sector participation. Since most PPPs are at early stages of operation, this study focuses only on learnings from PPP design and transaction. This study does not seek to assess the operating or financial performance of PPPs.

Contextualising urban water supply in a changing environment: India Urban Conference, November 17-20 2011

The India Urban Conference (IUC) was organised to encourage multi-level dialogue regarding India's urban transformation.

Posted on 30 Jan, 2012 09:21 AM

It aimed to set the challenges faced by urban planners in the current economic, socio-political, and ecological landscape. This would enable informed and negotiated choices on urban development. The stated objectives of the conference are as follows:

Koodam – Breaking hierarchy, building democracy - Paper published in Integral Leadership Review

This paper discusses the Tamil concept of 'koodam' as a possible tool to transform bureaucratic structures into more non hierarchical and people friendly structures.

Pradeep Prabhu

V Suresh

Posted on 08 Jan, 2012 03:59 PM

The paper published in the Integral Leadership Review argues that hierarchy and bureaucracy are two of the most common features of governance systems that play a determining role in shaping the organisational culture, systemic re

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भारत के पर्वतीय जल स्रोतों (स्प्रिंग्स) की स्थिति और इनके सतत प्रबंधन हेतु जल शक्ति मंत्रालय के प्रयास (भाग 2)

शैलेन्द्र पटेल, बावधन नौले-धारे के पास, पुणे (फोटो स्रोत: तुषार सरोदे)

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भारत के पर्वतीय जल स्रोतों (स्प्रिंग्स) की स्थिति और इनके सतत प्रबंधन हेतु जल शक्ति मंत्रालय के प्रयास (भाग 1)

विभिन्न संगठनों द्वारा मानचित्रित किये गए कुल स्प्रिंग्स की संख्या और नीति आयोग की रिपोर्ट में देश भर में संभावित स्प्रिंग्स की संख्या (लगभग 30 से 50 लाख) को संज्ञान में रखते हुए जल शक्ति मंत्रालय, भारत सरकार द्वारा स्प्रिंगशेड प्रबंधन हेतु गठित समिति द्वारा यह महसूस किया गया कि इनकी सम्पूर्ण देश में वास्तविक गणना अति आवश्यक है। इस क्रम में जल शक्ति मंत्रालय द्वारा देश के सभी राज्यों एवं केंद्र शासित प्रदेशों में प्रथम स्प्रिंग सेन्सस हेतु नोडल एजेंसियां चिन्हित कर अगस्त, 2023 में राष्ट्रीय स्तर का प्रशिक्षण कार्यक्रम नई दिल्ली में आयोजित किया गया।

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भूजल से संवरेगा कल

जल संकट का स्थायी समाधान भूजल ही है। इसी से हमारा कल यानि भविष्य संवर सकता है। अन्यथा जल के लिए संघर्ष होता रहेगा। खासतौर पर दूरस्थ ग्रामीण अंचलों में पीने के जल का गंभीर संकट उत्पन्न हो जाता है। महिलाओं को कई किलोमीटर दूर जाकर जल लाना पड़ता है। क्योंकि उनके अपने गांव-कस्बे या क्षेत्र में भूमिगत जल स्रोत पूर्णतः सूख गए होते हैं।

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