Water Management

C.P. Kumar of the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee provides a list of web communities on hydrology:

The recent issue of their newsletter is now available at their website: http://www.water.org/waterpartners.aspx?pgID=909 It contains information of partner NGOs success stories, case studies and water and sanitation issues.

www.allaboutwater.org is an interesting site for laypersons but also to an extent for water resources researchers, covering a wide range of facts relating water vis-à-vis our planet and the human race and presenting its information in a clear, user-friendly way.

In July 2007 India Water Portal collaborated with Chitradurga All India Radio (AIR) station (FM 102.6MHz) to produce and broadcast programs related to rainwater harvesting and ground water management. This activity was part of the 'offline' dissemination program of the Water Portal , i.e. creating awareness related to water issues through different offline media. We feel that the program series is a success and would like to reproduce the experience on a larger scale. The series -- named Mayadanta Male (literal , Magical Rain) involves 15 programs of 30 minutes duration each.

TN AQUA 2007 Conference on "Emerging Trends in effective water and wastewater management in Industry" 05-06 October 2007: 0930 hrs-1730 hrs: Hotel Taj Coromandel, Chennai The Tamil Nadu State Council of CII (SR) is organizing a two-day conference on Aqua 2007 on 05 -06 October 2007 at Hotel Taj Coromandel, Chennai

From: http://www.assams.info/2007/09/draft-for-assam-water-policy-rejected.html Addressing a press meet after the consultancy, secretary of Jal Biradari, NE chapter, A K Goldsmith said, '' Many of the participants want the draft policy to be rejected outright and have termed it anti-people since it has fail

The September 2007 report of the Expert Group on "Ground Water Management and Ownership" of the Planning Commission is available from the Commission. The report looks primarily at the problem of rural depletion of groundwater and feasibility and necessity of changing groundwater law.

Newsletter of the Himalaya Seva Sangh, which is produced in both Hindi and English. Himalaya Seva Sangh is an NGO working in Uttarakhand.

The contents include :

Groundwater - India's Water Lifeline needs urgent intervention

Govt is non serious about the crisis

Prof. Saifuddin Soz, the Union Minister of Water Resources has written to Chief Ministers drawing their attention to some of the important issues related to water resources, viz.