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Hello everyone, I am new to the platform and glad to join it. Thanks to the network development team. Would like to start a group, let's say may be in the area of my interest . Is it possible to do that?
Hello Sin, welcome to TWN. Its great that you wish to start a new group on TWN. You can start a new group by going directly to https://water.tallyfox.com/og . But please note that groups are for engagement and sharing experiences and best practices in the water related sector, not for advertising purpose. Let me know if you have any query in this regard. Thanks.
Thanks vishakha. I am interested in hydrology and would like to creat a group in the field to discuss and share New emerging technologies. I will do it soon following the link you sent. Thanks again. Sin
I suggest the governments in the world are responsible of bad state of affairs in the water sector. Governments plan development works without involving the local people, which result in untold hardships to them. The people's representatives in the parliament of a country and in assemblies in provinces have failed to fulfil the aspirations of the people in the areas represented by them. I suggest the water resources and other natural resources should be owned by the sub basin / basin councils with one representative from every village of the basin / sub basin. The development works in the basin related to the water resources and other natural resources must be first approved by the council and the provincial or national government must take further action as decided by these councils
Rajasthan High court has asked the government for removal of obstructions in the catchment area of Ramgarh dam . Court has also asked the Rajasthan Government to remove obstructions from the flow area of Amanishah tributary ( nala, as locally called). Obstructions are being removed and a nine story building was demolished on 16 th September 2012 .
Jaipur. A historical step was taken against encroachment in Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, when the nine story building of Era Group, which was illegally constructed in the catchment area of Amanishah nallah was razed to ground in just five seconds on Sunday evening, using dynamites. Experts from Indore ( MP ), under S B Sarwate, demolished the building, using dynamites. The building was situated in Japath’s Shyam Nagar area.Jaipur.
More buildings of this group and other groups are to be demolished soon, probably during current month, September 2012.
The Rajasthan Government is trying to remove illegal constructions in the flow area in catchment area of Ramgarh dam and from AmaniShah Nalla. But again there are so many opinions and obstructions put by shameless encroaches.
We have come up with a number of innovative technologies to treat wastewater with minimal use of energy and infrastructure. Kindly view them on http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/585153/Clover---Innovative-soluti.... We cleaned up a lake in New Delhi. The video of the same can be seen on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mKhD34kX6Y
You must be aware of situation in Mumbai, regarding water scarcity March onwards till sufficient rain over flood reservoirs. And 'Sulabh Sauchalaya' spread over Mumbai and adjoining area uses drinking water. Now such plans are to be forced on the authorities. As they want implement such projects on their own. Would you mind to share and guide me on this issue? Thank you.
The fourth edition of the World Health Organization’s Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality can be downloaded here http://bit.ly/mlyZKF
Nature’s Voice Our choice,USA { http://www.nv-oc.org} has been working in partnership our organistion - Goodwill Social work centre since 2008 in organizing International world water day poster contests on the theme ‘What water means in my life’2008 and ‘Water and Culture’2009. Through this partnership initiative ,our organisation has been promoting the right to water campaigning ‘Children give water a voice’ among school children numbering over 20000 in 70 schools located in rural and urban areas in and around Madurai,Tamilnadu,India. During the ‘Students give water International art competitions 2008 and 2009’ eight school children from our organization were declared as International poster contest winners and have received prize money and citations from NV-OC,USA and distributed to them by us.
Please check out the following web links to know of our partnership initiative with NV-OC,USA
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE-j6kLE_9k to view some of our photos published by 'Nature's Voice-Our Choice,USA about our sponsored children winning International art contests in 2008 and 2009 in NV-OC's video.
2. http://www.naturesvoice-ourchoice.org/students-give-water-a-voice.html from the website of Nature's Voice-Our Choice,USA, which contains information on our children under our 'Children's rights through artwork project' giving water a voice at the world water day International poster contests 2008 and 2009 organised by the Nature's Voice-Our Choice,USA. You may please check out the video in the URL to see our children at artwork. Please click on “Students awards and recognition” to view our web album about the award distribution function organised by our organisation.
3. http://s633.photobucket.com/albums/uu51/CHRISDANIEL_photos/?albumview=sl...
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPW8HTkKEMA
Our organisation is connected with NV-OC,USA in taking up collaborative project ‘Give Water a Voice’ to promote youth education and increasing community awareness about water issues in our project locations.
We are seeking funding for promoting the right to water among children through education,the arts and the media.Become a Partner of Goodwill Social work Centre and financially support our work to promote the right to water among children and youth in India.
Hello to all new The water Network members, i am new to this network, want to learn and share about our safe drinking Nadi filter unit, please read the info at www.ahdpak.org and share your views about my work in Pakistan
It seems a bit rudimentary, but the important thing is if you achieve a drinking water quality. Best regards, Emilio
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A recent report by World Bank: "The Future of Water in African Cities: Why Waste Water?"
By 2030, Africa’s urban population will double, and the difficulties African cities currently face in providing sustainable water services will be exacerbated. This Report provides examples of cities in Africa and beyond that have already implemented Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) approaches both in terms of technical and institutional solutions. For detailed report visit at http://bit.ly/PyJ3aZ
Thanks for sharing the report
We generally receive rainfall in heavy showers followed by dry spells. When it rains heavily the soil is not able to absorb water at the rate of rainfall. As a result most of the rain drains away, leaving very little for storage & the recharge of groundwater. This makes most parts of India experience lack of water even for domestic usage. Thus it does not matter how much rain we get, if we don’t harvest it.
I have made a documentary titled “Jol Dharo – Jol Bharo (Preserve Water, Reserve Water)” [Bengali, English, Hindi & Santali. 11 mints. Produced by Government of West Bengal in cooperation with Department of Water Resources Investigation and Development] on the Government of West Bengal pioneering project to preserve rain water with a focus on the activities of State Water Investigation Directorate in this regard. To preserve rain water and other natural water available on the earth’s surface by carefully controlling the respective resources, Govt. of West Bengal has initiated the project. And initiatives are being taken to establish appropriate storage tanks and check-dams of various capacities in different areas at the state, in implementing its goal.
The documentary dealt with this issue of water resource management in water-scarce region in West Bengal, an eastern region state of India where the majority of rural population depends on agriculture for their livelihood. Thus lack of adequate water resource has inducted high level of uncertainty and insecurity in the mind of the local inhabitant. The Jol Dharo – Jol Bharo (Preserve Water, Reserve Water) initiative of Government of West Bengal tries to provide a replicable framework as a solution to this ecological inequality in the face of looming impacts of climate change.
Dear Susanta,
Your discussion is interesting and needs additional contribution. the initiative of Government of West Bengal should be followed by most of countries in Asia and Africa where poor people suffers instantaneously when drought happens, because it affects their food. Last week i discovered that in some regions of the UK and USA they start also to be affected by drought seriously. In the UK farmers begin to build concrete reservoirs to harvest and store the rain water to use it during drought. This is the way to cope with climate change.
This initiative of creating reservoirs, dams is a good initiative but it is not sufficient because the water storage of these hydraulic managements is lower then the potential available water during the rain especially the heavy rains. A study I have done in Tunisia shows that during a rainy year the managements (reservoirs, dams) could be filled 10 till 15 times during rainy years. This means that a lot of water is not harvested (minimum 8 times the storage capacity of the dams or reservoirs). This huge of water is lost, through rivers, in the sea or ocean.
To minimize this lost water during the rainy year or the rainy season, I conceived 2 innovative technologies (inventions): The draining floater and the buried diffuser. The 2 technologies have been tested and validated in farmer field conditions in Tunisia and in Algeria. Since April 2012 Chahtech SA is manufacturing and selling worldwide the draining floater and the buried diffuser.
The draining floater allows the “pumping” and the distribution of the water from dams, reservoirs springs and rivers, using the gravity (siphon principle). This is without the use any conventional pump and without any conventional energies.
The buried diffuser a real "revolution» in irrigation and water conservation for the sustainability of the agriculture:
First:
“The buried diffuser” saves a huge of water: to produce the same weight of wood it uses 2 times less water then drip irrigation. This means that with the same water volume the diffuser produces 3 times more then drip irrigation. This is not a dream it has been verified in famers’ field in arid conditions (Tunisia).
Second :
"The buried diffuser" allows anticipating the irrigation of the crop (trees or cereals: corn, wheat etc). That means that instead of irrigation in spring and summer, the anticipated irrigation is done during autumn and winter when the water is more available especially from dams, rivers and springs. This good way to alleviate the negative effects of drought (like the one this year in USA) and to escape the crops and make it sure and regular although the climate change.
Third:
With the buried diffuser, especially for trees plantations, it is possible to inject the water in the deep soil layers of the plantations to be conserved and used (by the trees roots systems) during 3 dry years.
In the moment Chahtech SA is negotiating with an Indian company the introduction of the 2 technologies in India. When the negotiation is accepted I will send to you the contact address of this company.
For more information’s, send me you email address on bchahbani@chahtech.com and I will send to you a complete report on the draining floater and the buried diffuser. You can also surf on the Chahtech SA website: www.chahtech.com.
New Desalination Book "Post-treatment of Desalinated Water" Released this Week
The book covers the underlying scientific principles and related engineering aspects of the final stage of the desalination process providing re-mineralisation and disinfection. The book is availalbe at: http://www.desline.com/books.php
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