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October 8, 2023
India's rivers: From conservation movements to legal personhood
While the current push for legal personhood for rivers is facing obstacles and is stalled, it holds potential as a viable long-term strategy for the preservation of India's rivers
River quality deteriorates as demand for hydropower to support economic growth continues to expand. (Image: Yogendra Singh Negi, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)
October 6, 2022
Visualizing the Vrishabhavathi river to keep it alive
In an effort to inform the general public, especially citizen activists, policymakers, researchers, and students, about the current status of the Vrishabhavathi river, Paani.Earth has created the necessary maps, data, analysis, and information to drive conservation awareness and action around the river.
Vrishabhavathi river (Image Source: Paani.Earth)
October 1, 2021
Community videos: By the community, for the community
Community videos as a tool to influence behaviour change and adoption in rural communities
Community videos are produced by farmers themselves and feature local participants and agents from the rural communities themselves (Image: Digital Green)
September 17, 2021
Villagers’ shramdaan revives canal, enhances area under cultivation
Benefits of well-managed commons on livelihoods
Collective efforts revived the canal structure of Bichhiya dam bringing water to the village (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)
September 4, 2021
How Paani Foundation harnesses the power of communication for social transformation
Committed to use the power of all forms of communication to bring about behavioral change and transformation at scale
Villagers participating in shramdaan for making watershed structures (Image: Paani Foundation)
September 3, 2021
Learning about safe water practices and solutions
Safe water learning cards being used to train a wide spectrum of stakeholders
Different combinations of safe water learning cards can be customised for a session based on the target audience (Image: INREM)
ASHWAS - A people's survey of water and sanitation in Karnataka (2009)
A report that includes the findings of the ASHWAS survey- a peoples' survey where the surveyors were selected from the respective communities.
Arghyam
Posted on 05 Nov, 2009 04:17 PM

ASHWAS - Arghyam

This report includes the findings of the ASHWAS  survey (A Survey of Household Water and Sanitation),  a participatory survey carried out by Arghyam, that  included  28 districts of Karnataka covering more than 17,200 households across 172 gram panchayats (GPs). This was a peoples' survey, and the surveyors were selected from the respective communities that included students, women from self help groups, local NGO partners and other volunteers.

Arghyam is looking for a Project Manager for their Technology Division
Posted on 04 Nov, 2009 11:54 AM

Arghyam logo

Thinking about giving back to society? Looking for an opportunity to do something meaningful and use your skills and experience to contribute to the lives of the disadvantaged? Come and join a small team of like-minded individuals working together with people and groups across the country on the issue of water.

Everyday more than 1000 children die of preventable, water related diseases in India. At least 30 million people don’t have access to safe drinking water in urban India, and 40 million live in slums without adequate sanitation facilities. And the situation is only going to worsen. Water is likened to oil, only much more central to our very lives and well-being. Globally, it is increasingly being seen as the burning issue of this century.

Shodh Yatra in Orissa and UP : Lessons in understanding the communities in different geographies and environment
“Shodh Yatra”- The walk to find knowledge that Prof. Anil Gupta along with several other free willing participants undertake, twice a year.
Praveena Sridhar
Posted on 04 Nov, 2009 06:20 AM


“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”


What kind of a walk must have Ralph Waldo Emerson had, to pen down these lines?
Sign letter demanding release of NBA activists
Posted on 02 Nov, 2009 04:51 PM

Dear friends,

The Madhya Pradesh government has brutally lathi-charged and arrested Narmada Bachao Andolan activists, tribals and farmers.  Please read below for more information and click the link to sign the online letter to Chief Minister.
Harvest of water - Watershed programs in Maharashtra make the most of the little rains received
Long at the mercy of the monsoons, some Indian farmers are sculpting hillsides to capture runoff, enriching their land and lives.
Sara Corbett
Posted on 02 Nov, 2009 11:23 AM


India Rain

Photograph by Lynsey Addario

IUWM and participatory development:Community participation has a significant impact on the sustainability of the 3E's
A case study of Thangammalpuram village in coastal Tamil Nadu in resource management and community development.
Posted on 01 Nov, 2009 02:23 PM

Depending upon how you see it, in the geographical expanse of India a train journey could be anything that one would wish it to be ...
Ramky landfill at Mavallipura, Bangalore must be phased out
An article that draws attention to a landfill at Mavallipura village near Bangalore International airport, managed by Ramky
ESGindia
Posted on 26 Oct, 2009 11:36 AM

Environment Support Group (ESG), an NGO based in Bangalore draws attention to a landfill at Mavallipura village near Bangalore International airport which is being managed by a private operator.
Geneva Raindrops Award 2009 by IRHA
Posted on 16 Oct, 2009 12:37 PM

International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance

One of the aims of the IRHA's programs is to sensitize the population towards the benefits that rainwater provides. For should the advantages of the use of rainwater harvesting be recognized amongst professionals, is the population aware of it? Let us move out of the space where development specialists are dealing! Let us diffuse the information to the public at large and develop a common language. All these will certainly enable us to reach people who could support us in our work of the protection of as vital resource as water.

We would like to have more water in Greece, Australia and the South of Spain, less water in the United Kingdom and in Bangladesh. We would like to save the animals which die in Argentina due to flooding, and protect those which risk dying the following year due to lack of water. Not only must the act of rainwater harvesting be the priority of national political program on the agenda, but it could also become an environmental contribution for everyone. Furthermore, in calling for common effort to protect the planet, it should lead diverse cultures to come together. Good rainwater harvesting is an objective by itself, but it is also a means for adapting the world to its most haunting problem, which is the climate change.

Geneva Raindrops Award 2009

CEPT University looking for Fellow and Senior Fellow
Posted on 15 Oct, 2009 12:58 PM

Positions available for Research Fellows and Senior Research Fellows
CSE looking for reporters for Down To Earth magazine
Posted on 15 Oct, 2009 11:24 AM

CSE is looking for Reporters for Down To Earth magazine, based in Delhi, South and East India.
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