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campaign for participatory, equitable and decentralised paradigm
for water management with the objective of making water everybody's
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 Urban rainwater harvesting
Advanced course for working professionals
1st batch : July 6-10
2nd batch : July 13-17, 2009.
Learn the science, techniques and policies on urban rainwater harvesting. Practical exercises and field visits to prepare you to find solutions to the urban water crisis.
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| G R A S S R O O T
I N I T I T A T I V E S |
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 The farmers of Ambaredi village boast of their lush green fields and full brim river even during the dry months of the year. Village Ambaredi in Jamkandorna taluka experienced a complete changeover from dry agricultural land to lush green fields only after 2000.
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Urban Water Supply
Demand for water is growing in most cities as every urban citizen requires almost double the amount of water that a rural citizen requires. Moreover, India is rapidly urbanising.
Urban population in India has grown almost five times in five decades from 1951 (62.44 million) to 2001 (286.08). Not long ago, most of our cities were self sufficient in meeting their water needs from the extensive urban water bodies to supply water to citizens. Today these water bodies have completely disappeared. Municipalities have been stretched to their limits to find water for the growing urban populations. Groundwater is being extracted by the government as well as the private parties.
View Delhi's history of development of water supply
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| NEWS ALERT |
 Action Alert: Delhi's interceptor sewer project
In the name of cleaning the river Yamuna, the Delhi government has recently cleared a Rs 1,950-crore project to lay sewers to intercept drains carrying sewage from colonies not connected to the city sewage system. But, will it clean the river at all? Or is it more money down the drain?
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THE NATIONWIDE RAINWATER HARVESTING DATABASE |
Counting
the raindrops
CSE needs your help to create a nation-wide database of Urban
Rainwater Harvesting structures and practitioners, which can
be accessed by all online.
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BEST
RAINWATER HARVESTER'S AWARD |
DJB announces Best rainwater harvester’s award
In
a bid to encourage the rainwater harvesters and acknowledge
the efforts of those contributing to it, Delhi government announced
the Chief Minister’s “Best Rain Harvester”
award. The award carries Rs. 2 lakhs and a citation in Category-
I (Institutions and Housing Societies) while under category-II
(Individuals) can get hold of Rs.1 lakh and a citation.
For more details
see TOI dated [3.01.2006] or Click here>>
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TO EARTH |
 Water
budget
All that you wanted to know about water management schemes,
but didn’t know who to ask
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2006] |
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| E V E
N T S |
Traveling
Film Festival in Orissa: Environment-Beyond Trees And Tigers
[Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2005]
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Seminar for teachers on Environment Education at Megpai, Faridabad
[Dec.13, 2005]
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L D W A T E R W E E K |
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RELEASE:
[Aug. 26, 2005]
CSE director Sunita Narain receives the World Water Prize in
Stockholm. Narain accepts award on behalf of unsung "water
engineers and water managers of the world"
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A T E R V I E W S |
Barrage
of sewage
Kanpur will have a Rs 412.44 crore Ganga drain by 2031
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Strait
hit
Sri Lanka opposes India's Sethusamudram project
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Water
wrangle
States
slug it out over rivers
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Lake
assault
Udaipur's waterbodies run dry, authorities run amok
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N V I R O N M E N T F O R C H I L D
R E N |
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The
cacophony over water
[May 31, 2005]
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A T E R I N N E W S |
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MOEF
releases draft of the National Environment Policy
India's second Raincentre comes up in Meerut |
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| T E C H N O L O G Y |
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RWH
techniques in the northeastern hill ranges
Sari
to harvest rain!
Chauka
Magic in central highlands |
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O W N L O A D S |
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National
Environment Policy, 2004
Abridged version of Pani Ghano Anmol- findings of survey
on water resources in Meerut
A guide
map on hydro-geology of Chennai
Water
profile of Thiruvananthapuram
Water
profile of Kolkata
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