Guide to reduce wastewater from metal & machining industryPDF

Water conservation in metal finishingPDF

Optimizing Wastewater Treatment

Growing volumes of both industrial and municipal wastewater are being discharged to surface waters but the treatment provided frequently is inadequate to protect the desired uses of the receiving waters. With limited resources in terms of both institutional capacity and finance, governments face difficult choices in optimizing their investments in municipal systems and establishing practical requirements for industrial wastewater treatment. This note presents an approach to making coherent decisions on levels of wastewater treatment.

Consumers wouldn’t mind paying for quality

Water is likely to be one of the biggest industries in future in the country. With the state increasingly failing to earmark adequate funds even to maintain its own water distribution assets, the scope of private sector participation is gradually growing.

Facility Manager’s Guide to Water Management PDF
This workbook was developed to provide guidance to customers wishing to design their own water management programs and provides specific step-by-step instructions and suggestions on how best todevelop and implement a program for your facility.

Danish  Center  for Industrial  Water  Management PDF
A new initiative  on Cleaner  Production in  the  water consuming industry was commenced in  Denmark in  the beginning of  1999, targeting  reclamation and  reuse of  water , and of energy and substances in  the  water .

Desalination: Present and Future PDF
The article summarizes the techniques, trends, economy, environment, energy aspects, and other significant parameters associated with the state of the art of modern desalination. Directions are shown for future research and development work for further reduction in water costs.

Land Restoration Through Waste Management (INDIA)

Fly ash, the residue from burning low-grade coal in generating plants, and sewage sludge are produced in enormous quantities in India

Urban Scenario

School Sanitation and Hygiene Education: A Concept Paper PDF
School sanitation and hygiene refers to the combination of hardware and software components that are necessary to produce a healthy school environment and to develop or support safe hygiene behaviours.

Urban Water: Municipal Water Use and Wastewater Treatment PDF
Eleven percent of all surface- and groundwater withdrawn in Canada is used for municipal purposes. Urban Canadians on average use almost twice as much water per capita as urban residents in most other industrialized countries except the
United States.

A water crisis ahead
India is on the threshold of a water crisis, warns a report prepared by the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Wide Fund for Nature

French water management cos to tap Indian mkt
French water management companies, which include some global leaders, are hoping to flood the Indian market.

Water for a Growing Population: Water Supply and Groundwater Issues in Developing Countries PDF
This paper examines some of these problems, emphasizing groundwater, and suggests ways to prevent them in the future.

Central Ground water Commission

Training on Rooftop Rain Water Harvesting

Improving Access to Water on India's Deccan Trap Plateau

[Photo: Villagers in Manhere using rooftop water harvesting system during monsoon.]

Rural Water Projects Lessons from OED Evaluations PDF
The study is based on the evaluation results of 15 free-standing water and sanitation projects. It integrates the discoveries of three years of field research into Bank assistance for rural water and combines the findings of rural water Impact Evaluations with recent Performance Audits and Implementation Completion Reports on the topic.

Efficiency and equity in pricing irrigation water PDF
In this work we investigate efficiency and equity performance of various irrigation water
pricing methods. We begin, in the next section, with a summary of water pricing practices as
applied in a number of countries.

Water for Food and Rural Development :Developing Countries
The use of water for food production accounts for about 75 percent of the total withdrawal in developing countries and is crucial for sustenance. It is also important for addressing poverty and rural development. With developing countries endeavoring to enter the mainstream of development, a formidable challenge in water resources development, resource use efficiency and environmental conservation is faced by these countries, in which management of water for food will continue to remain prominent.

Dams and Development – An Introduction PDF
Dams have been built for thousands of years – dams to manage flood waters, to harness water as hydropower, to supply water to drink or for industry, or to irrigate fields. By 1950, governments, or in some countries the private sector, were building increasing numbers of dams as populations increased and national economies grew. At least 45 000 large dams
have been built as a response to meet an energy or water need. Today nearly half of the world's rivers have at least one large dam.

Contingent Valuation Meets The Cold Truth Of Actual Behavior:  Predicting Connections To New Water Systems In Kerala, India
In 1988 families in Kerala State in India were surveyed to ascertain willingness to pay for household connections to a piped water supply system.  At Sites A, where the improved water service was already available, the population was divided into those who had decided to connect at the existing connection costs and tariffs, and those who had decided not to connect.  At Site B, where the improved system had not yet been installed, families were asked whether they would connect under a variety of hypothetical connection costs and monthly charges.

Talk at the World Water Forum
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India, Digvijay Singh's talk

Addressing the Global Water and Environment Crises through Integrated Approaches to the Management of Land, Water and Ecological Resources PDF

As the world approaches the 30-year anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and prepares to review progress made in the decade since Dublin and Rio, we are confronted with results that are mostly disappointing. When it comes to addressing the water resources crisis, the 1990s may well be remembered as a decade of debate rather than action.

Coping with Hydrological Extremes PDF

Coping with hydrological extremes, floods, and droughts has been a major concern since the dawn of human civilization. Freshwater, a necessary condition of life and a raw material used in very high volumes in virtually every human activity, is becoming increasingly scarce. Water use has risen considerably in the last hundred years at a pace exceeding the population growth.

Learning from Experience in India’s Watersheds PDF

Two generations of projects to improve the lot of some of India’s poorest farmers illustrate why development programs have sometimes failed and how program designers, learning from these failures, can modify their plans to achieve lasting success.

Present Challenges in Water Management A Need to See Connections and Interactions PDF

This paper characterizes present challenges in water management worldwide and explores interdependencies between present technologies in water supply, sanitation, organic waste management, agriculture, and food production. The purpose of this discussion is to increase the sensitivity of readers to the connections between actions planned or already taken in different sectors that are usually only marginally considered by the scientific water community.