Products Practitioner's Guide: Water Efficiency and Conservation This guide attempts to mainstream water efficiency and conservation (WEC) from policy to practice. It provides guidance with regard to practicing WEC for effective planning of water-secure cities.
Products Green Infrastructure Provides introduction and guidance to strategies related to sustainable water management within the existing urban fabric of a city or region.
Workshops Capacitating public functionaries and institutions on wastewater and septage management This chiefly involves measures to provide training and handholding support to urban local bodies and other key stakeholders from 10 small / medium-sized cities in the Ganga basin in preparing City Sanitation Plan (CSP)
Reports Mainstreaming Rainwater Harvesting in Noida The rainwater harvesting (RWH) potential of Noida is about 27.73 million cubic metres (MCM) (i.e. 27,730 ml), which can meet 26.63 per cent of Noida’s water demand annually.
Workshops Capacity Building Initiative on Citywide Sanitation for ULBs in Ganga Basin In the name of economic growth, most rivers and streams are turning into sewers due to excessive pollution load- especially from urban settlements.
Reports What should be the Coliform standard in India's sewage treatment protocol in order to promote safe reuse of reclaimed water for domestic, industrial and agricultural use; are stringent standards affordable? The discharge of untreated sewage and the ensuing bacterial contamination of surface water bodies pose a health risk in its reuse, be it for a variety of domestic purposes including safe drinking water, as well as exposing farmers who often use raw sewage or polluted streams to meet their irrigation needs.
Story Roundtable- Mainstreaming Water Sensitive Urban Design and Planning- Challenges and Opportunities in Sustainable Development
Story Training programme on Sustainable Urban Water Management: Rainwater Harvesting and Decentralised Wastewater Treatment February 23-26, 2016 at CSE, 38, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062
Training Programs RWH Trainings Programme Training programmes focus on improving capacities and understanding of rainwater harvesting for municipal engineers under Centre of Excellence Programme of Ministry of Urban Development and general practising professionals of India and South Asia. Course Module
Reports Churning Still Water - Briefing Paper on Urban Waterbodies Urban waterbodies play an important role in flood control, groundwater recharge and water supply to help cities adapt to climate change effects.
Reports Capturing Rainwater A way to augment Chandigarh’s water resources CSE has submitted a report on city wide rainwater harvesting for Chandigarh as a part of its work as Centre Of Excellence under the Ministry of Urban Development. Chandigarh does not have any surface water source and there is a steep decline in the groundwater levels in the city. The city has very few options for sourcing water, recharging the confined aquifers from where water is being tapped becomes a necessity. Every summer, newspaper reports quote residents residing on the second and third floors in the southern sectors of the city complaining about the shortage of drinking water.
Story How to Clean the Yamuna While the Delhi government has been debating on what needs to be done to clean the river, the pollution levels have only worsened. In its book Sewage Canal: How to Clean the Yamuna, published in 2007, the Centre for Science and Environment reported that the Delhi stretch of the river is not only dead but had an overload of coliform contamination. Two years later, the pollution data shows no respite to the river.
Reports Ganga: the run of the river Passing through five states, the Ganga covers 26 per cent of the country’s landmass. Despite the enormous amounts of money spent on cleaning it, the river continues to run polluted. Worse, the pollution is increasing even in stretches that were earlier considered clean.
