Kosi Floods Updates, Portal User Interaction and More

Kosi Floods Updates, Portal User Interaction and More

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Kosi River Floods

In Bihar, the rescue effort is wound down, the focus has changed to relief and rehabilitation. India Water Portal's sub-site for the Bihar floods is http://www.indiawaterportal.org/bihar :
* News and analysis of the floods. Many critiques are being aired of the flood control strategy of the government
* List of organisations working in the rescue and relief and accepting donations. If you are aware of more organisations, please let us know - portal@arghyam.org
* Organisations working in relief can use our Ask A Question service to help them with managing the water and sanitation aspects of relif work. In addition we are working on compiling useful information in this regard.
More:
Government says that all rescue operations are complete. Read
Current maps of the districts showing the level of innundation. See maps
Dipak Gyawali, former Nepal Water Resource Minister suggests that the new channel of the Kosi is completely unknown at this point, but the river will at any rate not use the old channel. (News reports from the Nepali media)
Photos of original embankment breach site. View

Assam and UP are also struggling with severe flooding, with the current count of human lives lost in UP at 947 since June Read more

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Join us for the India Water Portal user interaction in Hyderabad on September 12th. Click here for more details.
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"Voices from the Waters" : The Third International Film Festival and Conferences on Water runs September 13-18th in Bangalore. It is probably the largest collection of water-themed films in the world. The festival will travel to many cities from Bangalore and you could contact the organisers to arrange for screenings in your city. Read More
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The Solution Exchange Annual Forum for the Water Community held in July in Bangalore saw many interesting presentations from initiatives across the country. Some short films from the event:

About a new WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygeine) institute being set up for India. See film
Dr. Latha Bhaskar on wetlands, and the work being done by ATREE in the Vembanad wetlands, Kerala. See film
Neerjaal -- a bottoms-up data collection mechanism for water data. See film

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"Water - Safe, sustainable and for all" was a design competition organised by India Water Portal and Arghyam for getting architecture and design students to think about water issues. The competition was a success and saw the best students from across the country apply their thinking to wise water design. See the winning designs and more from the competition. See designs

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Visit the new portlet on Water Conflicts: http://conflicts.indiawaterportal.org
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