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Ecology

Water quality monitoring of lakes in and around Bangalore city - A report by KSPCB (2001)

This report by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) both in Kannada and English highlights the deteriorating condition of the lakes in and around Bangalore city and describes the efforts undertaken by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board to launch a programme to monitor the water quality of some of the lakes in Bangalore so as to focus the attention of concerned governmental organisations to take up remedial measures to safe guard the water bodies of the "Garden City".  Read More

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Water quality monitoring of lakes in and around Bangalore city - A report in Kannada and English by KSPCB (2001) 196.97 MB

"It is necessary to move away from a project-based approach towards a holistic perspective": Report of the dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning held from 9 to 11 August 2011 (New Delhi)

This three day dialogue workshop on 'Mainstreaming river basin planning' held from 9th to 11th August 2011 in New Delhi intended to bring together activists involved in dam movements and other social and environmental movements, civil society groups, experts in water resources management, environment, river basin planning, officials from all the relevant ministries and departments and others concerned. Selected invitees from South Asian countries were also invited for sharing their views on transboundary issues.

Map of the Teesta basin showing the various planned damsRead More

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Difficulties in adopting the IWRM and integrated basin planning concepts in India - AD Mohile - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)43.59 KB
Ganga river basin environment management plan - IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)1.56 MB
From micro-watershed to river basin - Issues and prospects of upscaling - KJ Joy and Suhas Paranjpye - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)754.64 KB
Master plan for integrated development & management of water resources of Godavari basin - DM More - Dialogue on river basin planning (2011)1.22 MB
Cumulative impact assessments in river basins - Neeraj Wagholikar - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)6.33 MB
Some issues for trans-boundary river basin management and planning - Gopal Siwakoti - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)240.38 KB
Pollution management at a basin level - Vishwanath Srikantaiah - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)6.69 MB
India's tryst with the big dams: The performance and future perspectives of large dams in the river basin context - Himanshu Thakkar - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)1.91 MB
Are river flows to the sea a waste ? - A Latha - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)5.93 MB
Environmental flows and its assessment for upper stretch of river Ganga - Nitin Kaushal - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)398.95 KB

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New Delhi, DL, India
Latitude: 28.635308, Longitude: 77.224960

Planning as commoning - Transformation of a Bangalore lake - Paper published in the EPW

This paper published in the Economic and Political Weekly argues that the transformation of human settlements over time can affect the relationship between communities and commons when, for example, social geographies change from rural to urban, or from traditional systems of management to modern bureaucratic systems. Communities that were dependent on particular commons could become less dependent, or abandon those commons. New communities of interest might emerge. Read More

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Groundwater hydrology and groundwater quality in and around Bangalore city - Department of Mines and Geology (2011)

This report by the Department of Mines and Geology describes the findings of a study on urban groundwater hydrology and groundwater quality in and around Bangalore city. Earlier studies carried out by the Department of Mines and Geology during 1994, 1995 and 2003 on the groundwater quality of Bangalore Metropolis had found that the groundwater pollution in the city has mainly been due to sewage disposal and recommendations have been made to prevent pollution from sewage and industrial wastes. The supply of the required quantity of water to the population continues to remain a big challenge to the concerned authorities in Bangalore.Read More

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Groundwater hydrology and groundwater quality in and around Bangalore city - DMG - GoK (2011)77.51 MB

Fluoride in groundwater - Overview and evaluation of removal methods - A report by IGRAC

In this report published by International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre, information is given about methods for the removal of fluoride from groundwater. The methods can be used by domestic well owners as well as communal water suppliers. The report is divided into the following chapters:Read More

Harvest of rain - A CSE film

This video by the Centre for Science and Environment is dedicated to India's traditional water harvesting systems and practices. The camera wanders through the states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra and records the profound traditional science of the people. “Harvest of Rain” analyses a wide variety of water harvesting systems as a function of differing ecological terrains.Read More

An inventory of Greater Himalayan wetlands – A manual by ICIMOD

WetlandsThis manual by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) deals with an inventory of Greater Himalayan Wetlands and has been developed to assist governments, professionals, and the public to identify wetlands of national and international importance, and to serve as a basis for prioritising their conservation in conjunction with sustainable management of natural resources, in particular, water, fisheries and forestry, and national development initiatives.Read More

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Sanitation as a business - A new spin on the challenge of sanitation operation and maintenance - A paper by Water for People

This paper published by the Water for People describes Sanitation as a Business, an innovative approach to operation and maintainance challenges in household sanitation improvements, by describing the case of the implementation of the approach in the context of Malawi, by Water for People. The paper argues that programs that build latrines have consistently struggled to have impact or reach scale, and have often distorted the market environment in ways that have undermined future sanitation development.

The paper emphasises the relevance of this approach in the context of developing countries such as India by stating that the world would not be able to achieve even half of the Millennium Development Goals for sanitation at current rates of installation and consequently is projected to miss the sanitation MDG by more than 700 million people. Among the twenty two percent of those without access to improved sanitation, the greatest challenge remains in Asia and India in particular.

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