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Floods in Assam affect one lakh people - Dhemaji worst hit

Floods in Assam, bio-toilets in Konkan railway stations and damage of hydropower project in Uttarakhand are highlights of this week's news.

Ravleen Kaur

Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 11:31 AM

Flood fury hits Assam

National Workshop on “Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage”, Society for Development Alternatives (DA), New Delhi

A workshop to promote household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) methods as an interim measure till the time people can have access to safe drinking water 24*7

Posted on 07 Jul, 2013 04:18 PM

Organisers

Society for Development Alternatives

Venue

Qutab Institutional Area, Pranthas

About the workshop

Call for 'Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism' for women, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi

An initiative that encourages young women who wish to investigate and research on any topic of contemporary relevance

Posted on 06 Jul, 2013 05:36 PM

Offered by

Sanskriti Foundation

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.

Call for abstracts, International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM - 2014), CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala

IWRM is the process of supporting the synchronized development and management of water, land and related natural resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare

Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 12:11 PM

Organisers

Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM)

Venue

Kozikhode, Kerala

About the symposium

A 'green' house like no other!

Most of us understand the problems with water availability but how much do we know about implementing rainwater harvesting strategies and reusing grey water at home?

Ketaki

Puneetha

Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 02:50 PM

“I want to live in a house like this!” was my first thought when I entered Vishwanath’s home. (Vishwanath is Founder, Director of Biome Solutions). My colleague and I had gone to visit his house to see and understand how he has implemented ranwater harvesting systems and other green initiatives there.

Rainwater harvesting tank in a Bangalore house

Toilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India

Continuing open defecation in rural India, possible epidemic outbreak in Uttarakhand and draft bills on water laws are the highlights of this week’s news.

Sabita Kaushal

Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 10:00 AM

Toilet 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

Sustainable living: it's simple!

Sustainable living and making apartment complexes environmentally friendly - these were the themes of a recent workshop organized by Apartment Adda and The Alternative in Bangalore.

Ketaki

Posted on 26 Jun, 2013 04:00 PM

Oasis Breeze and Mana Sarovar Apartments are two apartment complexes like any other in Bangalore. They have a huge water problem. Residents use water without realising how much they are wasting and depend on water tankers without realising how much they are using. To monitor better usage, individual water meters were set up in each household of the apartments.

Sustainable living Source: Mercer Island Pulse

Fight water-borne diseases before they happen

Diarrhoea, cholera and dysentery are often rampant after the monsoons. The state of Assam piloted a programme to teach people to prevent their occurrence rather than to treat the illness later.

Runti Choudhury

Posted on 25 Jun, 2013 11:07 PM

The monsoon brings with it water-borne diseases like diarrhoea, cholera and dysentery, which cause suffering and death. Although this is a recurring theme annually, not enough measures are taken to prevent this. The state of Assam decided to take some action in May of this year.

Mobile labs that tested water samples in Assam

Wonder women of many Tamil Nadu villages - Water and Sanitation Promoters

The Water and Sanitation Promoter believes that there is a spirit of ownership among villagers that can be tapped into by someone within their own community.

Seetha Gopalakrishnan

Posted on 24 Jun, 2013 09:32 PM

Sanitation is a familiar term but is often misunderstood to mean the building and using of toilets but this isn’t true. It covers a whole range of thought and action both pre and post latrine use, which includes cleanliness, personal hygiene and the safe disposal of the urine and faeces.

Wonder women of Sanarpudur, Namakkal (Tamil Nadu)

Training Programme on Citywide Sanitation Planning (CSP), Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination Society, Bangalore

A training package that offers a methodology to carry out a City Sanitation Plan with different decentralized sanitation options and integration with centralised systems

Posted on 17 Jun, 2013 04:58 PM

Offered by

Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination Society

Venue

Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions,
Survey # 205, Kommaghata Road, Bandmath, Bangalore

About the programme

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July 4, 2024

बांदा, जखनी गांव : आज भी खरी है मेड़बंदी

मनुष्य को जब से भोजन की आवश्यकता पड़ी होगी उसने भोजन का आविष्कार किया होगा। किस स्थान पर भोजन उगाया जाए? फसलें पैदा की जाएं जमीन खोजी होगी खेत बनाया होगा। खाद्यान्न पैदा करने के लिए खेत का निर्माण तय हुआ होगा तभी से मेड़बंदी जैसी जल संरक्षण की विधि का आविष्कार हुआ होगा। यह हमारे पुरखों की विधि है जिन से खेत खलिहान का जन्म हुआ है एवं जिन्होंने जल संरक्षण परंपरागत प्रमाणित सर्वमान्य मेड़बंदी विधि का आविष्कार किया है जिसमें किसी प्रकार की कोई तकनीकी शिक्षा नवीन-ज्ञान, वैज्ञानिक ज्ञान की आवश्यकता नहीं होती है।

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India experiments with parametric insurance to mitigate costs of disasters

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Life during floods in Assam (Image Source: Kausika Bordoloi via Wikimedia Commons)

July 3, 2024

उत्तर कोरिया सरकार ने मानव मल एकत्र करने के लिए आदेश क्यों दिया है

उत्तर कोरिया के तानाशाह किम जोंग उन के एक नए आदेश के बारे में जानना चाहिए कि उन्होंने कोरिया की जनता से 10 किलोग्राम मानव मल एकत्र करने का आदेश दिया है। ताकि उसे खाद के रूप में इस्तेमाल किया जा सके। हालांकि यह आदेश उत्तर कोरियाई लोगों के लिए पूरी तरह से नया नहीं है, क्योंकि वे पहले से ही सर्दियों में खाद के रूप में मानव मल का उपयोग करते आए हैं।

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From scarcity to sharing: How farmers are managing groundwater in Rayalaseema

Community governance for groundwater management

Jasmine on the fields as part of the groundwater collectivisation agreement at Kummara Vandla Palli village, Sri Satya Sai District. (Images: WASSAN/Swaran)