Training Programme on Urban Lake Management
Date: October 14-15, 2019
Training on Urban Wetlands Management
September 25 – September 28, 2018
Phytorid based DWWTs at Rainbow Drive Society, Bangalore
Site visit by: Sumit Gautam, Mahreen Matto, Chhavi Sharda, Bhitush Luthra, Ridhima Gupta and Bhavik Gupta Date of last visit: 31 / 07/ 2017
If only cities can see wetlands
Sixty People died in a building collapse in Chennai last fortnight. There is much more than the municipal incompetence that needs to be fixed to avoid such tragic incidents. This building was located on Porur lake, a water body that provides services like groundwater recharge and flood management to an otherwise water-starved city. If you care to ask the obvious question how construction was permitted on the wetland, you will get a not-so-obvious response. Wetlands are rarely recorded under municipal land laws, so nobody knows about them.
Briefing Paper: Legal, Institutional and Technical Framework for Lake/Wetland Protection
Lakes and wetlands, whether man-made or natural, fresh water or brackish, play a vital role in maintaining the environmental sustainability of the urban areas.
Kolkata needs to plan its water future the right way - says study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
The city must think differently – ask its rich water-using population to pay, recharge its groundwater systems, and build on the strength of its tanks and lakes
Towards Lake Conservation
7 August, 2011 Dhaka, Bangladesh Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) India and Bangladesh Institute of Planners, Bangladesh (BIP) Bangladesh jointly organised a day long workshop on lake conservation of Dhaka on August 7, 2011, The workshop was attended by researchers, activists, planners, advocates and regulators from both Bangladesh and India. The meeting was a first initiative to influence the policy debate on lakes in South Asia.
Lessons from Kakarapalli
We were standing at the edge of what looked like a swamp—grass and pools and streams. On one side was heavily barricaded land with high walls, barbed wires and armed security. A board read: East Coast Energy, Kakarapalli. This was where a bloody battle had taken place a few months ago. People protesting the takeover of their wetland were shot at and three lost their lives. Now the site of the 2,640 MW thermal power plant is under siege—locked and in court.
Lakes in Courts: Cases on Protection of Lakes
Every Indian city, worth its salt, was known by its water body. In fact, localities were named after this wealth. It made the city, because, people understood the connection between these structures built to harvest rain and their drinking water.