Dear Friend,
Globally cities are reporting increasing incidences of flooding that is attributed to climate change. Several studies also point out that water cycle in cities is broken due to hap hazard urbanisation with encroachment over water bodies and watershed resulting reduced adaptive capacities within urban landscapes.
CSE School of Water and Waste (SWW) research undertaken in select cities – namely in states of Odisha, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in India has documented missed potential of storm water harvesting in open spaces and parks within built environment that will go long way in managing floods as well as in-situ water augmentation including recharge of groundwater.
Cities should develop adaptive, multi-functional infrastructure reinforcing water sensitive behaviours through urban design and planning. Need is to build capacities of urban local bodies and development authorities to understand urgency in this regard. In this direction CSE has recently partnered with National Mission Clean Ganga and launched a 3-year duration capacity building and action research initiative targeting state and municipal functionaries to push water sensitive design into city planning – aimed at developing model projects that can act as learning centres cum light house for Ganga basin cities.
In this endeavour, we are pleased to put forward this bi-monthly newsletter exhibiting, updates, publications, training, events and more.
We look forward to hearing impact stories of change from all our alumni, partners and readers.
Your suggestions and feedback are welcome.
at: sww-aaeti@cseindia.org
Best regards,
Suresh Kumar Rohilla
Senior Director & Academic Director |
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| School of Water & Waste Activities, Initiatives and Resources |
| Please find below our events, news updates, tools and opportunities for you to learn more and collaborate with us in our ongoing and upcoming endeavours. |
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Webinar: Working in Development and Social Change
15 – 17 June, 2021
School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London invited Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Director – CSE as part of an international panel of speakers at the international conference on “Working in Development and Social Change” in the session on “Interweaving Think Tanks and Sustainability”.
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Australian India Water Dialogue – “Water Sensitive Urban Design, Opportunities & Challenges"
30 June, 2021
Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Director – CSE was as key panelist shared CSE’s journey and experience of pioneering research and capacity building initiative aimed towards mainstreaming Water Sensitive Urban Design and Planning (WSUDP) in India and global south cities at the India – Australia Water Dialogue. The session was inaugurated by Additional Secretary Shri Debashree Mukherjee, Ministry of Jal Shakti (Government of India).
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CSE at Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2021
21 June – 02 July, 2021
CSE School of Water and Waste (SWW) had the opportunity to present its research this year at SIWW 2021. Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla - Senior Director, CSE was invited to make two oral presentations in the technical sessions – (i) Mainstreaming Blue Green Infrastructure in Ganga basin cities (ii) Co-treatment of Faecal sludge at Bijnor for citywide sanitation. Dr Rohilla was also invited expert speaker panellist in the workshop on – ‘Water Resilient Cities - Lessons from Recent Extreme Events’ and he talked about the need for overcoming legacy issues in India and across the global south. This power packed global knowledge sharing session was attended by 3500+ participants.
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Moving beyond ODF - Preparing NGOs on Faecal Sludge & Septage Management (FSSM)
05 July – 09 July, 2021
Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Director – CSE, presented CSE’s PSU (Programme Support Unit) and TSU (Technical Support Unit) journey of mainstreaming Citywide Sanitation including effective FSSM in Uttar Pradesh to sensitive NGO’s on FSSM. This online international training was organised by Wash Institute (WASHi) and supported by BMGF & USAID. The workshop was attended by 80+ NGO personnel interested in advocacy on various aspects of FSSM to present their contribution towards achieving ODF++ goals.
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National webinar on Understanding the Role of Groundwater in Urban Development
19 July, 2021
Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Director – CSE was invited as keynote speaker at National webinar organised by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU), Lucknow as part of its celebration of the Uttar Pradesh Ground Water Week – 2021.
Dr Rohilla with help of the case study of Delhi discussed the important but underestimated and unaccounted role of groundwater in both planned and unplanned urban developments and the need for sustainable groundwater management.
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Water Smart Solution Boot Camp for Centre for C4Y Interns
22 – 23 July, 2021
CSE is partnering with the Centre for Youth (C4Y) internship programme this year aimed to contribute in enhancing capacities, knowledge of the youths and to develop a comprehensive understanding of the water sector concerns and possible solutions in the country. Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Director shared about the School of Water & Waste (SWW) vision to create a community of practice for a water wise and waste prudent society at the ‘Water Solutions Boot Camp’ organised by C4Y for cohort of interns affiliated at different institution this year.
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Water Sensitive Design and Planning - Nature Based Solutions for In-situ Water Augmentation
30 July, 2021
Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Director – CSE, was invited as a guest speaker by Development Alternatives Group – ‘We For Water, Water For Us’ at the 5th session of the webinar series, ‘Water Resources Management for Sustainable Development and the role of Citizens’. Speaking at the webinar Dr Rohilla highlighted the need for adopting a different model for sustainable urban water management – connecting water and urban design / planning embedded with social and service delivery.
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| Capacity Building:Trainings |
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Water Sensitive Urban Design and Planning
26 May - 04 June, 2021
CSE – SWW organised a two-part series online training to support faculty and students at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), University – involved this year in a studio exercise on ‘Water Urbanism: Infrastructure & Hydrology -Delhi’ – as part of partial fulfilment requirements for Master of M. Arch (Urban Regeneration) course. This tailor-made studio is part of a series of activities under CSE – JMI long term partnership on mainstreaming WSUDP in the course curriculum and building a community of practice.
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Tools and Approaches for Water & Sanitation Management
05 June - 14 June, 2021
CSE – SWW organised a two-part series online training to support faculty and students at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), University – involved this year in a studio exercise on ‘Water Urbanism: Infrastructure & Hydrology -Delhi’ – as part of partial fulfilment requirements for Master of M. Arch (Urban Regeneration) course. This online training as part 2 of the programme aimed to create change-agents in the water and sanitation sector, to establish in-depth understanding of key tools and approaches for citywide water and sanitation management.
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GIS and Remote Sensing for Designing & Implementing Green Infrastructure
Part A: 23 June - 09 July, 2021 | Part B: 27 - 30 July, 2021
CSE – SWW in collaboration with UWE (University of the West of England) Bristol, organized this online training aimed at developing the technical capacity of practitioners with state-of-art tools and techniques for mapping and analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing for Green Infrastructure solutions. The training was attended by 64 participants from 38 cities across 4 countries.
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| Webinars and Online Workshops/ Events |
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Orientation Workshop: Developing Excreta Flow Diagrams (SFDs)
21 July, 2021
Water Research Commission (WRC), South Africa in partnership with CSE organised a workshop aimed at institutionalising Shit Flow Diagrams (SFD) and nationwide roll in South Africa. WRC is CSE’s global programme partner and regional partner for SFD Promotion initiative aimed at mainstreaming SFDs in South Africa and other African countries. This workshop was attended by 40+ participants including representatives from universities and other sector organisations / agencies.
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Understanding the Septage Desludging Models: What works and What doesn’t work?
23 July, 2021
SWW – CSE organised this international webinar aimed at understanding the issues and challenges in different desludging models successfully implemented in India and other parts of the world namely – Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia. The webinar received an overwhelming response with more than 2000 viewers from 35+ countries and 200+ cities worldwide.
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Launch Event cum Webinar: Making Ganga Basin Cities Water Sensitive
27 July, 2021
CSE has partnered with the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Ministry of Jal Shakti, India for a 3-year action research and capacity building initiative - ‘Making Ganga basin cities water sensitive’. Under this initiative, the aim is to engage with state/ municipal functionaries and other sector players involved in promoting sustainable urban water management through trainings, webinars, field exposure visit and knowledge conclaves. The event received an overwhelming response with registrations from 240 cities across 33 countries worldwide and 1800+ participants / viewers joined this online launch event.
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| Outreach: Resources, Publications and Blogs |
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Water conservation to be our goal, Water conservation a slogan
08 June, 2021
On the occasion of ‘World Oceans Day’, a blog cum poem on the topic of Water Conservation was published in Down To Earth Magazine. The poem has been written by Mr Jyoti Parsad, Programme Officer, CSE in view of the facts of water scarcity and seeking attention of the community towards the use of recycled water.
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Shit Flow Diagram for Ravidas Nagar, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India
28 July, 2021
Shit Flow Diagram report prepared by CSE for Ravidas Nagar, in Bijnor city, Uttar Pradesh was published on SuSanA. This report is part of SFD promotion initiative to highlight issues across sanitation value chain in a low-income area and promote citywide inclusive sanitation in India and across global south cities.
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| IEC Campaign |
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| New Partnership |
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| CSE School of Water & Waste Internship Programme - 2021 |
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CSE Water Programme this year is hosting 15 interns. The internship programme is aimed at engaging youth who are keen to build a professional career in promoting sustainable water and sanitation or pursuing education in relevant areas. Intern gets an opportunity to work with mentors in ongoing water programme activities - policy advocacy, action research and capacity building. This year CSE has also partnered with the C4Y internship programme.
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