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General
Interest newsletter of India
Water Portal -- September 2007
Contents:
Water Awards, Question Answering
Service, Interviews with Members of Parliament, Rainwater
Harvesting in Mumbai, Radio programs on water, Water
Projects for
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CII-GBC
(Confederation of Indian Industry - Godrej Green Business Center)
is
inviting applications for the "National Award for Excellence in Water
Management" in industries.
Read
More
Water
Digest and UNESCO are inviting
applications for their Water Awards
for 2007-08. There are categories for NGOs, Corporates,
Utilities etc.
Under
NGOs there
are awards for "Water Supply", "Water Management", "Water
Education", "Revival of Rural Rainwater" and "Water
Harvesting". There are several categories for corporates
including Water Management in Hospitals, Hotels
and Schools, CSR, and Industrial Wastewater Treatment.
Read
More |
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India
Water Portal has a free question answering service where you can ask
any question related to water. We welcome your inquiries on this
service. Click here or mail to portal@arghyam.org
Recent
Questions that were answered on this
service:
CAREER
OPPORTUNITIES after M.E. in Environmental Management
Response
Sustainability risks for businesses using lot of ground
water
Response
Awareness
for Water Conservation in Industries
Response
Rainwater
harvesting in a residence -- Velachery, Chennai
Response
Companies
involved in water and sanitation services
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Resources
by Region/Language
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RWH
Resources in Mumbai:
Water Portal recently collected several resources related to
Rainwater Harvesting in Mumbai. There are several organisations
active in Rainwater harvesting in the Mumbai and Thane area and some
of them will help you for free in designing your rainwater
harvesting system.
Click here
Kannada
Radio Programmes on Water:
The Water
Portal has been supporting a radio initiative to spread
awareness about rainwater harvesting in Bangalore
and Tumkur districts of Karnataka. To read more about this
initiative,
Click
here
Interview in Hindi
with Munshi Ram, MP from Bijnor, Uttar
Pradesh
Read
Interview with
A.R. Shaheen, MP from Baramulla, Jammu and
Kashmir
Read
Interview with
Ravi Prakash Varma, MP
from Kheri, Uttar Pradesh
Read
Read More
Interviews |
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A Pune student carried
out a very nice experiment where she consistently measured the
rainfall in her area for 2 years. It is an excellent example of a
meaningful school project. This presentation describes that project.
View
Presentation (Powerpoint)
We have added a
document that will help teachers and others working with children to
find the content on the Water Portal that could be useful in
teaching children about water.
View
document
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Water
Quality: The H2S Strip Test.
This
is a simple test you can perform to check for
bacteriological contamination in the water you
drink.
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On The
Water Portal
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