Water Management

The ASCE Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI), is organising the 3rd International Perspective on Current & Future State of Water Resources & the Environment from 5th to 7th January 2010 in Chennai.

Roundup of news - November 3-4, 2009

Karnataka confident of getting more funds

https://www.deccanherald.com/content/34098/cm-confident-getting-more-funds.html

 Land aquisition on in full steam:

https://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/04/stories/2009110454390400.htm

 CM in Dharwad on Wednesday

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.

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur presents WHSC 2009. A three day conference which is expected to pave way for producing compendium of technological options, policy guidelines and implementing mechanisms for water harvesting, storage and conservation.

Objectives

We hope that WHSC-2009 will immensely benefits technocrats, policy makers and implementers to attain global excellence. Main objectives of this conference are:

• To assess the significance of water harvesting, storage and conservation to meet international water stipulate.
• To assess challenges related to water harvesting, storage and conservation technologies
• To engage stakeholder in issue-oriented discussion as to share experience and agree on a common plan of action

Lately there have been some conversations about water sector and microfinance, about bringing in microfinance to address water issues like access to clean drinking water, household water distribution and supply, associated problems of sanitation like underground drainage, and utilities.

Let me describe a scenario which has become typical of my life in the development sector. "They never finish what they start", is the answer that I hear for most of my questions about public water supply projects (also for many other infrastructure projects), in most parts of India.

Photograph by Lynsey Addario

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 ...

On 21 October 2002, His Royal Highness Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz – Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General – announced in Riyadh that nominations were being accepted for a new global Prize to be awarded biannually: the "Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water". 

The Prize Council, headed by His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, includes leading scholars from around the world. The General Secretariat of the Prize is headquartered in the Prince Sultan Research Center for Environment, Water and Desert, at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Nestlé Prize

Do you know of a project that will have a significant impact on water management or access to clean water? Nominate it for the Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value!