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July 2, 2024
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)
June 30, 2024
How Burhanpur became India's first Har Ghar Jal District
SHGs empower women, ensure sustainability: A model for water tax collection in Burhanpur
Rural water security (Image: Shawn, Save the Children USA; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
January 7, 2024
Evolution of state's role in rural drinking water governance in India
Need to nudge state governments to evolve a detailed roadmap (planning, implementation and operations related strategies)—immediate, medium and long-term—for ensuring drinking water security.
Demand-responsive approach became the mainstay of the project with the initiation of sectoral reforms (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
December 28, 2023
Creating scalable, sustainable agriculture programs
The report presents six case studies on how sustainable agriculture programmes scaled up in the past in India
A farmer uses a hosepipe to irrigate crops at her farm in the Nilgiris mountains, Tamil Nadu (Image: IWMI Flickr Photos; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
December 19, 2023
Employment potential of India's Jal Jeevan Mission
This IIM Bangalore study highlights the spillover effects of public investments in rural water supply systems in the form of employment generation.
The employment structure under Jal Jeevan Mission encompasses both direct and indirect employment during construction and O&M phases. (Image: Wallpaperflare)
December 12, 2023
Insights from Atal Bhujal Yojana in Rajasthan
Learnings from India's Participatory Groundwater Management Programme
Launched in 2019, Atal Bhujal Yojana aims to mainstream community participation and inter-ministerial convergence in groundwater management. (Image: Picryl)
Dugwell - An asset for sustainable livelihood: An Arghyam and Action for Social Advancement (ASA) project carried out in 2 tribal bocks of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh
Population increase and the resultant increase in consumption has come to lay enormous stress on food production, thus underlying the need to bring in more land under cultivation
Mystic Frames
Posted on 27 Oct, 2012 10:44 AM

 At the same time we also need to keep in mind the judicious use of natural  resources, especially in rain-fed areas. Integrating sustainability and demand is one of the greatest challenges faced by communities and nations today.
10-days training workshop on hydrogeology, water quality and groundwater management in Himalayan states, People's Science Institute, Dehradun, December 12th - 21st, 2012, Register by 15 November, 2012
Posted on 23 Oct, 2012 09:21 PM


PSIVenue

Dehradun

Organizers
India’s rivers are drying, fresh water biodiversity being destroyed, and people seriously threatened from mega hydro-electric projects - Can CBD help?
India continues to use doublespeak in dealing with its rivers and biodiversity, inspite of promulgating the Biological Diversity Act
South Asia Network on Dams Rivers and People (SANDRP)
Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 08:28 PM

Twenty years after ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity, and ten years after promulgating the Biological Diversity Act, India continues to use doublespeak in dealing with its rivers and their biodiversity
India’s economic policies are destroying biodiversity and livelihoods: Commitments under CBD are not being met, says a statement issued by Indian civil society organizations
India’s economic policies are destroying biodiversity and livelihoods on an unprecedented scale
Indian civil society organisations
Posted on 18 Oct, 2012 05:45 PM

The blind pursuit of economic growth is coming at massive costs, both to natural ecosystems and to hundreds of millions of ecosystem-dependent people, who are being affected by mining, dams, power plants, ports, industries, and other such projects.
The Rajasthan minor mineral concession rules (amended up to 19 June 2012)- Document by Department of Mines and Geology, Government of Rajasthan
This document spells out the rules for regulating the grant of quarry licences, mining leases and other mineral concessions in respect of minor mineral in the state
Department of Mines and Geology
Government of Rajasthan
Posted on 17 Oct, 2012 03:57 PM

The document by Department of Mines and Geology, Government of Rajasthan has eight chapters, which are as follows:
Unlocking the potential of the Indian minerals sector- Report by the Ministry of Mines
This report identifies the steps that can be undertaken to transform the mining sector in India
Ministry of Mines (Government of India)
Posted on 16 Oct, 2012 09:21 AM

This report by Ministry of Mines spells out the key priorities that will enable transformation of the mining sector in India.
Boot camp: Covering India, Centre for Science and Environment, Nov 26 to Dec 7 2012
Posted on 15 Oct, 2012 03:48 PM

CSE

Organizers

Centre for Science and Environment
"Bandipur Tiger Reserve becomes India’s first to demarcate eco-sensitive zone”-Roundup of the week's news (8-14 October, 2012)
The news round up this week informs that Bandipur Tiger Reserve has been recognised as an ecosensitive zone along with that on mining, earthworms and the greening plan for Amritsar
Rina Mukherjee
Posted on 15 Oct, 2012 02:42 PM

Bandipur Tiger Reserve becomes India’s first to demarcate eco-sensitive zone
Towards Sustainable Sanitation, CDD, Bangalore, October 8 - 12, 2012
Posted on 07 Oct, 2012 10:24 PM

Organizer: CDD

Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions
                Kengeri, Bangalore

CDD

CDD Society is working to provide one million marginalised people with access to water, sanitation and energy by 2015.
From our headquarters in Bangalore, we work through a network of likeminded organisations across South Asia to provide cost effective, environmentally sound, and community specific basic needs services.

Champa Devi and Kartal Singh- SRI farmers develop innovative solutions in Kangra valley, Himachal Pradesh
This article by Chicu Lokgariwar describes he efforts made by two farmers in Himachal Pradesh to adopt the SRI method of rice cultivation
Chicu Lokgariwar
Posted on 05 Oct, 2012 04:42 PM

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is now gaining a foothold in the mountain regions of India, with more than
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