Dear Sir or Madam,

 

We are happy to present the August Newsletter of India Water Portal. Contents include coverage of Bihar floods, Parliament Questions, MP interviews and new data and resources.

 

Best wishes,

India Water Portal team

 

 


Volume 1, Issue 4
August 2007

 

Recent Floods in Bihar

 

Bihar NGO network is accepting contributions for flood relief work
Photographs from West Champaran and Muzaffarpur districts
District-wise situation details from some field NGOs
Tentative relief plan with contact details of partner NGOs of the Maegh Pyne Abhiyan campaign
Some Media Coverage

Interview with Deepak Bharti of SSVK, an NGO working in Bihar
"I requested  that the sanctioned relief material & other resources(block wise and district wise) be posted on disaster management web site. It would enable the NGOs located in concerned districts to directly check with the local government officials whether the relief has reached or not. It would curb duplicity and corruption in relief work & also streamline the relief work."
Read More (Hindi translation available)

 

New Sections on the Portal - Ask A Question, Parliament Questions, Water Voices, Conference Outputs

 

"Ask A Question"

You can post a question on this service and India Water Portal will also ask a pool of practitioners to provide an answer to the question. Visitors to the Portal can also answer it. This service is brought to you through a collaboration with WES-Net .
Read More

Parliament Questions

All of us know the critical importance of water and want it to be represented at the highest level. India Water Portal shares with you all the questions asked by Members of Parliament to the Water Resources Ministry in 2007.  
Click here

Water Voices

Interview with Mr Manvendra Singh, MP from Barmer

"Probably in no area of India , water would have such critical importance as in my constituency. I do not look at these as water related problems; I propose that all the problems in Barmer are connected to water"

Read More (Hindi translation available)

Interview with Prof. Rasa Singh Rawat, MP from Ajmer

" Punjab is often reluctant to give water to the Rajasthan. India 's water flows down to Pakistan . If some of this water is diverted to Rajasthan, the situation can improve a lot."


Read More (Hindi translation available)

Interview with Dr. Anupam Mishra


Read More (English translation coming soon )

Conference Outputs

In this section we present the proceedings and other outputs of conferences, workshops and other meetings that were held recently. You can write to us (portal@arghyam.org) to add outputs from your conference here. Some current highlights:

Recommendations for Groundwater Management from the National Seminar on "Changing Hydro-geological Scenario in Hard Rock Terrains of India" organised by the Geological Society of India.

"Urban Water Backgrounder" brought out at Arghyam's Conference on Urban Water.

Abstracts and Full Papers of the National Seminar on Water and Culture  at Hampi
Read More

   

New Content

 

For the full list of new content added by date - Click here

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Waternama is a collection of traditional practices for water conservation and management in Karnataka. Read about the community tanks, neerugantis, sand bores and other traditional practices from Karnataka. The book was brought out by Communication for Development and Learning and edited by Sandhya Iyengar. India Water Portal is happy to present the full book online.
Read Book (under Case Studies)

Review of Right to Water : Human Rights, State Legislation, and Civil Society Initiatives in India ": By Priya Sangameshwaran under the auspices of CISED
Read Report

"Watershed Development Review: Issues and Prospects" ---- a CISED Technical Report by Joy, Paranjape et. al. Read Executive Summary or Full Report (1.25MB)

Report of the Planning Commission Working Group on Rainfed Areas for the 11th 5 Year Plan (2.9MB)
Read Report 

Status of Water Resources in West Bengal .
Read More

Water Resources chapter of the Chhatisgarh State of the Environment Report, 2004
Read More

Rainfall and temperature 'normals' for 20 major cities from IMD
Read More

Current Meteorological data for Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa from the IMD.
Click here (Look under the corresponding state on the right hand side).

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We thank the following for recent contributions to the India Water Portal

 

CISED, Bangalore

 WES-Net

 Water Aid India

Maegh Pyne Abhiyan 

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Mr. Karl Nilsson

India Water Portal welcomes your case studies, audio-visual documentation, reports etc. for adding to the compilation of content on the Portal. Send email to portal@arghyam.org to contribute your work or other useful information.

The World Water Week

The World Water Week, August 12-17, 2007 at Sweden
Read about the awards and reports

 

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