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- Professional Development Award with the IPS Program Area at IDRC
[Date: 31/08/2006 Source: Scidev.net]
International Development Research Centre (IDRC’s) innovation, policy and science (IPS) program area and the regional office for South Asia in New Dehli, India, seek applications from qualified candidates for a professional development award.
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All Schools to have Drinking Water Facility by March 2007
[ Date: 30/08/06, Source: Jansamachar]
The Department of Drinking Water Supply has decided that all the schools of the country must have drinking water facility by 31.3.2007. All States are trying to achieve this target. State Secretaries of Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Chattisgarh have assured that within the given time-frame they would be able to achieve the target. However, the ministry is concerned by the under utilisation and slow progress of implementation of different schemes in many states.
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Bangladesh Government to Sell Bottled water
[ Date: 28/08/06, Source: IATP Right to Water]
The Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority will start marketing its bottled water branded as 'Shanti' in Dhaka and elsewhere of the country within a couple of days. The bottled water project is being implemented to provide bottled water in a competitive price to benefit the consumers.
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INDIA: empowering people and accountability needed, says World Bank
[ Date: 24/08/06, Source: IRC Source News]
It is essential for India’s rapidly growing economy to improve the delivery of core public services such as health care, education, power and water supply to all its citizens. This means empowering its people to demand better services through reforms that create more effective systems of public sector accountability, writes the World Bank in: The India Development Policy Review 2006 titled "Inclusive Growth and Service Delivery: Building on India's Success".
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Cover story: Urban myth - India's largest urban renewal initiative
[ Date: 24/08/2006, Source: CSE News]
Lured by a Rs.100,000 crore (US$ 20,000 million) budget, cities scrambled to produce development plans overnight for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal mission. Within three months of the scheme's launch, 23 projects had been approved. However, the programme looks all set to promote the wrong kind of growth in cities, perpetuating the problems it claims to solve.
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NABARD- SDC Rural Innovation Fund (RIF)
[ Date: 22/08/2006 Source: NABARD]
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in association with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has constituted the "NABARD-SDC Rural Innovation Fund (RIF)" to, inter alia, support innovative projects in Farm, Non-Farm and Micro-Finance Sectors leading to creation of livelihood opportunities for the poor.
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Water Budget – Reduced Allocations and Slow Progress in India
[ Date: 17/08/2006 Source: Down to Earth, CSE]
The article written by S V SUERSH BABU and RITU TANWAR captures the poor performance in the water sector characterized by reduced allocations and slow progress. They clearly bring about the manner in which different schemes are formulated and how these fail to address the objectives.
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Nothing unscientific about it
[ Date: 12/08/06, Source: India Togather]
The scientific establishment remains highly sceptical about organic methods. But Dr. Tarak Kate and his colleagues at a Wardha-based NGO have collected data systematically, to negate the charge that this alternative is unscientific and unproven.
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Sensible to Segregate Urine
[ Date: 11/08/2006 Source: Down to Earth, CSE]
Though urine makes up less than 1% of wastewater, it accounts for a disproportionate amount of the cost of treatment. According to a study published in Journal of Environmental Engineering, if only half of this urine was collected and treated separately, the energy required for water treatment could be reduced by 25%.
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National Lake Conservation
[ Date: 08/08/06, Source: Jansamachar]
Sixty-two lakes all over the country have been identified for conservation under National Lake Conservation Plan for conservation of degraded lakes. Under this programmes pollution abatement works namely, interception and diversion of sewage, setting up of sewage treatment plants, low cost sanitation and crematoria are taken up. Other measures include in-situ lake treatment like de-weeding, de-silting, bioremediation etc. besides lake/river front development and catchment area improvement in the identified polluted stretches of rivers and prioritized lakes.
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Water quality monitoring and surveillance
[ Date: 4/8/2006 Source: Jan Samachar]
A new initiative was taken by Government of India by launching a community based National Rural Drinking Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Programme in February 2006. Guidelines for the programme have been issued to States for implementation. 100 % testing of all the water sources including the private sources in the country at the Gram Panchayat level by the grassroots level workers by using simple user-friendly field test kits is proposed.
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War for Water – Water dispute in Sri Lanka
[ Date: 03/08/2006 Source: IPS News]
As heavy fighting continued between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil rebel militants to gain control over an irrigation sluice near Trincomalee port, fears grew over the fate of a ceasefire brokered by Norway in 2002.
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Women take the lead in water projects in Kerala
[ Date: 02/08/2006 Source: Source News]
Participation of women from decision-making to post-implementation is the common element in successful drinking water projects in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Women are the main beneficiaries of any water scheme because they are the ones who suffer most when water is scarce. The RWH scheme implemented by the Malanadu Development Society (MDS) and open well project implemented by the Palai Social Welfare Society (PSWS) as part of the Jalanidhi water project [1] of the Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Agency (KRWSA), funded by the World Bank have achieved highest level of women’s participation.
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