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The sanitation crisis in India - An urgent need to look beyond toilet provision
Posted on 18 Apr, 2012 12:14 PMGuest post by: Aarti Kelkar-Khambete
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The sanitation crisis and the recent evidence on lack of toilet facilities
Water supply and demand management of the Indus basin : Options for current and future sustainable water resources management
Posted on 17 Apr, 2012 12:04 PMArticle Courtesy : Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)
Authors : A.N. Laghari, D.Vanham, and W.Rauch
Toolkit for integrated urban water management, developed by Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy
Posted on 12 Apr, 2012 11:24 PMThe review included, but was not limited to urban hydrology, management of water supply infrastructure, water resources management, water quality management (WQM), groundwater management, technical and economic instruments for water demand management, technical and economic aspects of leakage reduction, environmental and economic aspects of wastewater treatment and reuse, storm water management
A student uses India Water Portal on Twitter (@indiawater) for research
Posted on 12 Apr, 2012 04:10 PMShe found Twitter to be a useful place to conduct her research on issues of governance and institutions in watershed management programs in India and the U.S., because it enabled her to pick the resources she found useful without having to go through lots of articles and research papers.
"Resources, tribes and the State" - A report on an international seminar, organized by the Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, in February 2012
Posted on 11 Apr, 2012 04:10 PMGuest post by: Raju Mimi
Central Water Commission and ISRO launch Water Resources Information System (WRIS), a comprehensive solution for accessing data on water in India
Posted on 11 Apr, 2012 02:36 PMDear India Water Portal readers,
Master Class on changes in Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FRCA) 2010, South Asian Fund Raising Group, April 17, 2012, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Posted on 10 Apr, 2012 03:15 PMOrganiser: South Asian Fund Raising Group (SAFRG)
Venue: Willow Hall,
India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi
SAFRG is a not-for-profit think tank on 'sustainability of NGO sector in South Asia and beyond'. It creates platforms that promote dialogue and advocacy on the subject. Thousands of NGOs in the region have benefited from SAFRG's capacity building programmes since 1989. SAFRG also conducts and promotes research beneficial to the non-profit sector.
Climate change and water sources: Strengthening community preparedness and water use regulations hold the key
Posted on 10 Apr, 2012 10:34 AMAuthor : Neelima Garg
Scientific and technological approaches for sustainable use of water resources: Summary of the Global Indian Scientists and Technocrats Forum convention held at Pune, in December 2010
Posted on 09 Apr, 2012 11:17 PMThe sessions were as follows: