Water Management

Message on behalf of WATER RIGHTS ORISSA

As you are already aware, the World Water Day will be celebrated on March 22. In the meeting of Orissa Water Forum, we have decided to celebrate this in a big way.  As you know, Orissa's Water Problems have many dimensions and it is important that the Civil Society Organisations respond vigorously on each of the issues. Our primary goal is to achieve Water Security for All. Our task is to involve each citizen.

Senior Water Specialist

International Finance Corporation

Location: New Delhi, India
Last Date: February 28, 2010
Email: (Reference: DevNetJobs.org)

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Water and a City - A documentary film about Bangalore’s relationship with water

Venue:        

Centre for Film and Drama
5th floor Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road
Bangalore 500052
Phone: 22356263

This report of the Lakshman Rau Expert Committee released in 1986, provides detailed notes about all the tanks in Bangalore's metropolitan area, provides general proposals for their preservation including specific recommendations in regard to some important tanks, and concludes with suggestions relating to implementation of the recommendations.

The Lost Lakes of Bangalore is a project to document Bengaluru’s many tanks and lakes which have vanished with urbanization and growth. As part of this project India Water Portal is organizing a contest for schools and colleges to document this aspect of Bengaluru's history.

Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts (Forum) in India, in collaboration with the Chalakudi Puzha Samrakshan Samiti and Kerala State Resource Centre of the Forum, is organizing a Training Programme on Understanding and Resolving Water Conflicts from 5 to 8 April 2010 in Kerala (the exact location in Kerala would be announced later).

About the Book –

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are supposed to provide solutions to many of the existing problems related to infrastructure projects – in both execution and operation. Currently, there are PPP projects in almost all the sectors including roads, ports, airports, water, sewerage, solid waste management and transport among others. It is, therefore, important to do a reality check on PPP projects and their efficacy in addressing the problems faced by the public sector water supply services and other infrastructure sectors as well.

The report looks at various aspects of PPPs, beginning from why PPPs have come to be regarded as the major approach for infrastructure development in the country, the circumstances that lead to the change in approach from direct privatisation to public-private partnerships, the current status of the PPP projects that are being executed in India, especially in the water sector, to the current estimates and projections of investment requirements for infrastructure development in India by governments and International Financial Institutions (IFIs).

This document contains case studies from the work of Samagra Jal Vikash Samiti, Arghyam and Development Alternatives, in Rajpura, Kachipura, Pipra and Hastinapur villages of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, in organising drinking water and improving water quality of available drinking water.

WaterAid India - Programme Officer (Policy Research and Rights), New Delhi

WaterAid is an international non-governmental organisation focused exclusively on improving poor people’s access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in developing countries. WaterAid is an equal opportunities employer.