Kerala: Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts (Forum) in India, in collaboration with the Chalakudi Puzha Samrakshan Samiti and Kerala State Resource Centre of the Forum, is organizing a Training Programme on Understanding and Resolving Water Conflicts from 5 to 8 April 2010 in Kerala More

Bangalore:The Campaign against water privatization in Karnataka is supporting Manthan (Madhya Pradesh) to release their book titled ‘Public Private Partnerships in water sector – partnership or privatization?’ in Bangalore. This book is a comprehensive analysis of all the PPP projects in water sector in the country with a critical look at the one-sided push to eventually and completely privatize water in India. Veteran freedom fighter S. Doreswamy and Siddangowda Patil of CPI have agreed to jointly release the book.

New Delhi: On November 16, 2009 the Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India organised a panel discussion on "Can water conflicts in India be resolved by putting water in Concurrent list, particularly in the context of impact of climate change on hydrological cycle?"more

Rohini Nilekani, founder Chairperson of Arghyam received the India Today Woman award in the public service category. For more information click here.
 
Ravi Narayanan, Arghyam advisor was conferred the Knight Commander (CBE) rank of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the British Government in 2009 "for services to providing water and sanitation facilities for poor communities". For details about the award, click here .

G.Sridevi of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore successfully completed and defended her Ph.D. thesis on the use of human urine as fertilizer. Her research was supervised by Dr. C.A. Sreenivasmurthy and supported by a grant from Arghyam. In March 2009, Dr. Sridevi came to the Arghyam office to present the results of her research and formally hand over a copy of her Ph.D. thesis.

Dr. G.N.S.Reddy of BAIF Institute of Rural Development - Karnataka visited Arghyam in April to discuss taking the successful SACHETANA fluoride mitigation project. An impromptu wide-ranging discussion ensued, with Dr. Reddy offering his insights on many topics. Some videos from his visit can be seen here:

Part 1 (click here)  

Part 2 (click here)

Part 3 (click here)

Girish Sant of Prayas (www.prayaspune.org) visited Arghyam in March to share Prayas' experience and their journey as an organisation.

Click here to watch the video from his visit.

India Water Portal sponsored a meeting at Madivala Tank on World Water Day to draw attention to
the problems of the tank. Water songs, water quality testing, presentations on the
lake and the birds of the tank and a walk around the lake were on the program. The event was covered in local newspapers and TV and on Citizenmatters.in (click here)

at Madiwala lake

Schools Water Portal conducted a workshop for school teachers in Coimbatore under the aegis of Sirithulli on World Water Day.