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September 5, 2024
India's sewage future
The current state of play regarding sewage treatment standards in India
Clogged pipes: India's sewage treatment crisis (Image: Trey Ratcliff, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
September 2, 2024
NGT’s uniform standards: A controversial approach to sewage management
Recommendations made by an expert committee, the NGT's subsequent orders, and a critical analysis of these developments
Drum screens at Bharwara sewage treatment plant (Image: India Water Portal)
August 22, 2024
From pollution to solutions
The journey of sewage treatment standards and the challenge of treating India’s growing wastewater
Need to fix wastewater effluent standards (Image: Kristian Bjornard)
August 16, 2024
Open drains drain health
A recent study finds that majority of the poor in India are likely to have open drains or no drainage systems to convey and treat their waste flows, threatening their health.
Open drains, harbingers of illhealth. Image for representation only (Image Source: SuSanA Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons)
July 23, 2024
Reusing wastewater, rethinking water: Maharashtra's roadmap
How Maharashtra turns wastewater into a resource
Reusing wastewater for a secure future (Image: CEPT)
May 23, 2024
Water reuse: Panacea for parching cities
Boson White Water sets an example for water starved cities such as Bangalore by following a sustainable decentralised approach to manage wastewater and treat it for reuse.
Wastewater reuse plant at Boson White Water (Image Source: Manisha Shah)
Kashmir under danger of floods
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 31 Mar, 2015 12:30 AM

Fear of floods looms over Kashmir again
Landslide and a flooded river
Constructed wetlands as a cost effective cleaning option
Water treated using constructed wetlands before being used for irrigation can be a suitable and cost effective option to prevent possible human health risks
Markus Starkl et al
Posted on 25 Mar, 2015 01:18 PM

Hyderabad, which is India's fourth largest city, has a population of almost 7 million. The Musi river, originating from the Anantagiri hills, divides the city into north and south. The River flows through the city and joins the Krishna in Nalgonda.
Musi river (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Water Man of India wins 2015 Stockholm Water Prize
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 23 Mar, 2015 09:04 PM

Rajendra Singh is the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
The Water Man of India (Source: SIWI)
Are there solutions to epidemics from water-borne diseases?
The recent jaundice outbreak in Sambalpur, Odisha has again unfolded several questions related to rise of water-borne diseases in urban areas in India. This film explores these problems.
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 10:06 PM

Between May and December 2014, 17 deaths were registered in Sambalpur due to jaundice but residents say that the death toll due to water-borne diseases is much more than that. In January 2015, the Odisha High Court issued a notice to the state government asking it to furnish details on the steps taken to check the Jaundice outbreak in Sambalpur. 

What is Jaundice?
Polluted water in Sambalpur, Odisha
Water Untouched: A film on Dalits' lack of access
Forming 17% of India's popultion, Dalits still have to depend on the goodwill of dominant castes for many things including access to basics. Why?
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 19 Feb, 2015 08:59 AM

“The Dalits of this country get access to water on the goodwill of the dominant caste. Water to untouchables is still miles away,” says Goldy M George, a Dalit activist and an expert on Dalit rights.
A Dalit woman in Ekta Nagar, Raipur
Invitation to the National Seminar on 'Water Conservation and Rainwater Harvesting', Indian Water Works Association, Mumbai, Maharashtra
The seminar is aimed to cover conservation, security, budgeting, recycling and reuse of water, artificial recharge in groundwater, rainwater harvesting techniques and groundwater management.
Posted on 18 Feb, 2015 04:17 PM

Indian Water Works Association in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded is orgainising a national seminar on 'Water Conservation and Rainwater Harvesting' at IIT Bombay.

For more details, download the event brochure and registration form attached below.

 
India ranked 12th in mismanaging plastic waste
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 17 Feb, 2015 08:28 PM

8 million tonnes of plastic waste dumped into world's oceans in 2010: Study
Two oceans meeting at Dhanushkodi, Tamil Nadu
Rs 2000 crore action plan to restore mining ravaged areas in Karnataka
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 09 Feb, 2015 01:54 PM

Karnataka sets up firm to mitigate mining impacts
Coal mines in Jharsuguda
Invitation to the 7th IDSAsr National Seminar on 'Recycling Waste Water and Reuse System', Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies, Amritsar, Punjab
All are invited to contribute their well thought research paper on the theme Recycling of Waste Water and Reuse System in the 7th IDSAsr National Seminar.
Posted on 24 Dec, 2014 11:25 AM

Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies has planned to organize its 7th IDSAsr National seminar on the theme Recycling of Waste Water and Reuse System in the mid of March 2015.  All are invited to contribute their well thought research paper on any of the sub theme within the main theme of the seminar.
Budget 2015-16 likely to have huge cuts in social sector
Policy matters this fortnight
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 16 Dec, 2014 12:27 PM

Social sector likely to get less funds in Union Budget 2015-16
MNREGA workers building check dam in Gujarat
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