Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Lanka Rainwater Harvesting Forum was established at the beginning of 1996 by a small group of interested persons. They are from a range of government and non-government institutions, including the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB), Intermediate Technology Development Group Sri Lanka (ITSL), Community Water Supply and Sanitation Project …
People depend on nature for many things. A stable climate. Clean air. Fresh water. Abundant food. Cultural resources. And the incalculable additional benefits the world’s biodiversity provides. Conservation International (CI) works to ensure a healthy and productive planet for us all. Yet economic and infrastructure development, which are so necessary …
Development Alternatives -- a non-profit corporate organisation, devoted to design options and promote approaches for the sustainable development through economic efficiency, equity and social justice and environmental harmony, Resource conservation and self reliance.Its strategies are innovation and appropriate design of technologies, institutions, knowledge structures, policy advocacy, campaigns, research, networking,technical assistance …
Janhit Foundation is a Section 25 not-for-profit organization actively engaged in the promotion of human welfare through sound environmental and community management. Aim to enhance the quality of life of our local communities through our work in four specific focus areas, water, agriculture, environment and child rights.
PSI is registered as a society in New Delhi, under the Societies Act (1860), and under the Foreign Contributions Regulations Act (FCRA) with the Ministry of Home Affairs. Its activities are spread all over India with a focus on the central-western Himalayan states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and the …
Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), a non government organization starts to bring people together on the issues of management of forests and water resources.Water security, Conservation of forests and wildlife are closely interlinked. One cannot be separated from another.Tarun Bharat Sangh triggered off the process by building one Johad (a pond …
Rajendra Singh is a well known water conservationist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his pioneering work in community-based efforts in water harvesting and water management. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun …
The organization Sadguru Water Development Foundation, an NGO, established in 1974, dedicated itself to the betterment of rural and tribal people by helping them make better use of available resources, appropriate technology and participatory managerial practices. The aim is to help the tribal people break away from the vicious circle …
Safe water, suitable for human consumption is a scarce resource which is indispensable for the sustenance of life on the planet and is considered as a key factor contributing towards overall economic and social development of a country. Access to safe drinking water is considered as an inalienable right of …
Lanka Rain Water Harvesting forum (LRWHF) was launched in 1996 with the vision of 'leading the nation in rain water harvesting technology, construction and utilization to sustain water needs'.
The Policy Support Unit (PSU) for Water and Sanitation Sector (WSS) provides technical assistance for the Local Government Division (LGD), Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives (MoLGRD&C;), to develop and review sector policy strategies and plans; coordinate and monitor performances; and facilitate the development of institutional capacity.
At the time of independence, the boundary line between the two newly created independent countries i.e. Pakistan and India was drawn right across the Indus Basin, leaving Pakistan as the lower riparian. Moreover, two important irrigation head works, one at Madhopur on Ravi River and the other at Ferozepur on …
As the River Nile needs projects, for its full control and for increasing its yield for the full utilization of its waters by the Republic of the Sudan and the United Arab Republic on technical working arrangements other than those now applied. And as these works require for their execution …
Whereas treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers, and of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, was signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries in Washington …
