Presentation tries to look at the villages in the Indian Context in terms of their strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and tries to define concepts to make them more productive , liveable and sustainable
Grey water treatment is removal of unwanted suspended material from the greywater collected and disinfecting the same to make it useful for toilet flushing or irrigation or discharging to sewer lines according to the local laws applicable.
Redox Environment B.V. at Winterswijk, The netherlands, has developped a total process for waterrecycling for municipal and office buildings, laoding stations, small municipalities,etc., etc,.
Presentation tries to define in brief context , objectives, role and
importance besides methodology for planning of villages in order to rationalize the development of urban India and to launch India on the path of prosperity, growth and development.
Presentation tries to look at the villages in the Indian Context in terms of their strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and tries to define concepts to make them more productive , liveable and sustainable
Grey water treatment is removal of unwanted suspended material from the greywater collected and disinfecting the same to make it useful for toilet flushing or irrigation or discharging to sewer lines according to the local laws applicable.
Redox Environment B.V. at Winterswijk, The netherlands, has developped a total process for waterrecycling for municipal and office buildings, laoding stations, small municipalities,etc., etc,.
Presentation tries to define in brief context , objectives, role and
importance besides methodology for planning of villages in order to rationalize the development of urban India and to launch India on the path of prosperity, growth and development.
Located in the Northern parts of Karnataka, Koppal as a district, houses regions with the 2nd largest agriculture produce in the state. It has a marketing committee at Gangavati driving agriculture from the front. The district consists of 4 talukas Koppal, Gangavathi, Kushtagi, and Yelburga along with one the biggest Sarovars in India. It has a literacy rate of 78.54%
Water: water is renewable resource. Three- fourth of surface is covered with water but only a small proportion of it accounts for freshwater fit for use.
Some facts about water
Only 2.5% of the world’s water is fresh water and most of this are in the form of polar ice-caps.
Water use as increased by 70% since 1970.
A recent report by credit issues stated that by 2025 18 will
countries experience water demand beyond supply capabilities.
This presentation was given by COE Pune for "Samavesh" - XVl Annual NOSPlan Convention. The Theme of Presentation - "Accessibility in Peri-urban area".
What purpose do the economy, energy, or environment serve?Anupam Saraph
Address to the Pune International Centre Conference on:
Energy, Environment and Economic Growth: Emerging Challenges on 22-23 January 2021
Are we addicted to the economy? Have we forgotten it is the environment that gives life, not the economy? Do we recognize that energy, green or otherwise, will not protect the planet, or create reverence for the sacred, or care and respect for the community of life?
Benami voters and laundering elections with aadhaarAnupam Saraph
Why is Aadhaar worse for democracy than Cambridge Analytica?
The UIDAI's own claims about Aadhaar tell how Aadhaar not only destroys democracy but also the sovereignty of India. It pushes control of the elections into the hands of the ecosystem of Aadhaar: those who create Aadhaar enrolments, those who authenticate using Aadhaar, those who decide if your Aadhaar is deactivated and those who make beneficiary and electoral rolls with Aadhaar numbers.
Located in the Northern parts of Karnataka, Koppal as a district, houses regions with the 2nd largest agriculture produce in the state. It has a marketing committee at Gangavati driving agriculture from the front. The district consists of 4 talukas Koppal, Gangavathi, Kushtagi, and Yelburga along with one the biggest Sarovars in India. It has a literacy rate of 78.54%
Water: water is renewable resource. Three- fourth of surface is covered with water but only a small proportion of it accounts for freshwater fit for use.
Some facts about water
Only 2.5% of the world’s water is fresh water and most of this are in the form of polar ice-caps.
Water use as increased by 70% since 1970.
A recent report by credit issues stated that by 2025 18 will
countries experience water demand beyond supply capabilities.
This presentation was given by COE Pune for "Samavesh" - XVl Annual NOSPlan Convention. The Theme of Presentation - "Accessibility in Peri-urban area".
What purpose do the economy, energy, or environment serve?Anupam Saraph
Address to the Pune International Centre Conference on:
Energy, Environment and Economic Growth: Emerging Challenges on 22-23 January 2021
Are we addicted to the economy? Have we forgotten it is the environment that gives life, not the economy? Do we recognize that energy, green or otherwise, will not protect the planet, or create reverence for the sacred, or care and respect for the community of life?
Benami voters and laundering elections with aadhaarAnupam Saraph
Why is Aadhaar worse for democracy than Cambridge Analytica?
The UIDAI's own claims about Aadhaar tell how Aadhaar not only destroys democracy but also the sovereignty of India. It pushes control of the elections into the hands of the ecosystem of Aadhaar: those who create Aadhaar enrolments, those who authenticate using Aadhaar, those who decide if your Aadhaar is deactivated and those who make beneficiary and electoral rolls with Aadhaar numbers.
The IPCC says 10 years is all we have. Start your own initiatives to be a climate change leader. Help ensure we halt, even reduce global warming. Help ensure we protect our streams and rivers to ensure our life line.
Share widely with clubs in your city and across your district. Be a climate leader. Say I Can.
This presentation asks 7 key questions to demystify the magic of Aadhaar:
# Is Aadhaar a unique ID?
# Who certifies the identity, age, address, resident status, or even existence of persons assigned a Aadhaar number?
What documents were used to issue Aadhaar numbers?
# Who audited and verified the Aadhaar?
# What is the location address of enrolment operators submitting enrolment packets to be assigned Aadhaar numbers?
# Does Aadhaar identify anyone?
# Whose purpose does Aadhaar serve?
The presentation lists the key implications of the responses of the UIDAI to these questions under the Right to Information Act.
Summary of talk at the Centre for Energy and Environment Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
I described the nature of systems challenges and ways to identify that a challenge is a systems challenge. I then highlighted a few projects currently undertaken by the Government of India and described the systems challenges they created for India. Finally I described the methodology of systems interventions that avoid creating systems challenges and help accomplish difficult missions.
Wicked problems are those that benefit us individually but hurt us as a society. They turn up decades later in unexpected places, often far away from where you are. Often it's too late to be able to address them in our lifetime when we notice them.
Here is my short list of 3 wicked problems we are facing today. Sadly government's don't have think tanks that even understand, let alone address any of these problems.
This is part of my address to 600 students on the biggest challenges they need to deal with in their life.
Address delivered to the aspiring Ph.D. students on responsible conduct of research. Lists various examples of research from diverse fields that have raised questions about the responsible conduct. Asks what the purpose of responsible research should be and how and who should evaluate it.
There may be a video link to the actual talk somewhere, will link it when I have it.
How does one create enduring water security for each community?
These points are a summary of the steps required to be taken to ensure that no community will be without water for a single day and no community would suffer floods. The simple steps described here will ensure resilience from climate change.
This is the slide deck of my introductory sessions on Systems Thinking. Systems Thinking will help you understand change in the systems you are a part. It offers insights into counterintuitive outcomes you often observe in your own systems. It offers insights into making impact and why impacts fail. It hopes to give you the strength to leave your system better than when you found it.
Quick summary of points submitted to the PMO on why the UIDAI is not even an ID, not even needed, how it facilitates anti-nationals, destroys governance, creates pandora accounts and destroys sovereignty.
Why the United Kingdom scrapped its UIDAnupam Saraph
Presentation made in June 2014 to explain David Cameroon's reasons for keeping his election promise in 2011 and scrapping the UK's UID program and destroying its database.
There is no escape from the cyber space and risks associated with it. Therefore we need to have a strategy to minimise our risks, including, protection from obsolescence, unfair practices, and protection of our identity and digital assets.
Slide deck used for talk for Moneylife Foundation. Video of talk at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMD8eO0aQUU&feature=youtu.be
Smart Projects for Smart Cities: The Government Way (Updated to Nov 2015)Anupam Saraph
This is a case study illustrating how bad projects are the norm in smart cities. It illustrates the bad governance and failure of the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Urban Affairs, the State government and the Urban Local Body to protect public interest.
This case study demonstrates with the example of one stream of how the Pune Municipal Corporation and the JNNURM have been instrumental in destroying urban streams across Pune. JNNURM has funded similar projects across the country.
This has resulted in heavy costs to citizens, particularly:
• 66 Crores of tax money wasted on one streami alone in private interest to steal the green belt and water stream
• Project aimed to continuously waste more money in private interest to destroy all natural streams in Pune and in every urban centre under JNNURM
• Approximately 90 crores worth of wetland and green belt stolen from the public in Devnadi alone
• Water table for entire Baner in Pune (aprox 10 sq Km) destroyed (aprox annual cost of replacing the services 5X the current annual supply of water by tanker mafia)
• Pollution of the ground water and spread of water borne disease by laying sewage lines in the stream (Aprox 44 crores per year in purified drinking water costs for Baner alone + medical expenses to treat water borne disease and mosquito borne disease)
• Crime, failure of the Development Plan by promoting slums to grab the land of the river (Cost to mental health, peace and well being for entire Baner; crime rate up in Baner by more than 100% in last 5 years)
• Risk of damage by flooding increased at least 60 fold as the stream is channelized, constricted and flow changed to 1/60 of its avg. width
• Biodiversity and lungs of the Baner area destroyed by removing the trees and vegetation from the green belt and the river
Keynote address for Common Purpose workshop on Urban Sprawls in Dubai.
Urban sprawls have made cities unliveable. Despite the high costs of sprawls they have grown like cancer across the world.
What are the drivers that make cities sprawl? Can we regulate the sprawl? How can we ensure cities do not grow for ever?
How does the speed of urban transportation drive the urban sprawl? What is the role city nervous systems have to ensure liveable cities?
Draft Clean Ganga Bill 2014: An enduring answer to every Indian's plea for cl...Anupam Saraph
The Supreme Court of India the agony of every Indian in stating "When will Ganga flow with its pristine glory? We are not sure if our generation can see it. We would like at least our future generation to see the development,".
This ‘Clean Ganga Act 2014’ is a draft to provide a enduring mechanism to ensure "suitable means for maintenance of ecological flow." as promised by the government to the court. It aims to empower citizens and local-bodies to discharge their responsibility of protection, conservation and restoration of the lost glory of the Ganga and all water bodies across the country.
This draft is the result of more than 5 years of efforts of river activists across India and Policy-makers of various State and National Water Policies, under the leadership of Raincatcher and Waterman, Magsaysay Award winner Dr. Rajendrasingh.
Roadmap for Digital India submitted to the Prime Minister of India and the Information Technology Minister of India.
Ideas that protect the assets of the country, ensure right projects are being undertaken, no one is denied benefits, justice, equality, liberty and fraternity are within reach, the future scenarios are shared and democracy is not a distant dream.
Designing sustainable and resilient citiesAnupam Saraph
Talk given at Future Proofing Indian Cities in 2011
How does one leverage systems principles to build sustainable and resilient cities? A walk through 5 design principles based on systems characteristics for city designers.
Section 4 is the most important Section in the Right to Information Act. As yet it is the least used by information seekers, the least enforced by Information Commissioners and the least complied to by government agencies.
This presentation makes a case for making Section 4 work.
Presentation at seminar on "Role of Civil Society in enhancing transparency".
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
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Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
45. Pune is loosing its
groundwater as it converts
its nalas and rivers to
gutters
46. Illnesses Caused by Water-Borne Microbes
Agent Source Incubation Period Clinical Syndrome Duration
Viruses:
2-3 days; occasionally
Astrovirus human feces 1-4 days Acute gastroenteritis
1-14 days
Febrile illness, respiratory illness,
Enteroviruses
meningitis, herpangina, pleurodynia,
(polioviruses,
human feces 3-14 days (usually 5–10 days) conjunctivitis, myocardiopathy, Variable
coxsackieviruses,
diarrhea, paralytic disease,
echoviruses)
encephalitis, ataxia
Fever, malaise, jaundice, abdominal 1-2 weeks to several
Hepatitis A human feces 15-50 days (usually 25-30 days)
pain, anorexia, nausea months
Fever, malaise, jaundice, abdominal 1-2 weeks to several
Hepatitis E human feces 15-65 days (usually 35-40 days)
pain, anorexia, nausea months
Acute gastroenteritis with
Norwalk-like viruses human feces 1-2 days 1-3 days
predominant nausea and vomiting
Acute gastroenteritis with
Group A rotavirus human feces 1-3 days 5-7 days
predominant nausea and vomiting
Group B rotavirus human feces 2-3 days Acute gastroenteritis
From: Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply:Assessing the New York City Strategy (2000) The National Academies Press
47. Agent Source Incubation Period Clinical Syndrome Duration
Bacteria
Aeromonas hydrophila fresh water Watery diarrhea Average 42 days
Acute gastroenteritis,
1-4 days occasionally > 10
Campylobacter jejuni human and animal feces 3-5 days (1-7 days) possible bloody and mucoid
days
feces
Watery, then grossly bloody
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli 1-12 days Average 7-10
human and cattle feces 3-5 days diarrhea, vomiting, possible
O157:H7 days
hemolytic uremic syndrome
Possible dysentery with
Enteroinvasive E. coli human feces 2-3 days 1-2 weeks
fever
Watery to profuse watery
Enteropathogenic E. coli 2-6 days 1-3 weeks
diarrhea
Watery to profuse watery
Enterotoxigenic E. coli human feces? 12-72 hours 3-5 days
diarrhea
Bloody and mucoid
fresh surface water, fish,
Plesiomonas shigelloides 1-2 days diarrhea, abdominal pain, 11 days average
crustaceans, animals
nausea, vomiting
Loose, watery, occasionally
Salmonellae human and animal feces 8-48 hours 3-5 days
bloody diarrhea
Fever, malaise, headache,
Salmonella typhi human feces and urine 7-28 days (average 14 days) cough, nausea, vomiting, Weeks to months
abdominal pain
Possible dysentery with
Shigellae human feces 1-7 days 4-7 days
fever
Profuse, watery diarrhea,
Vibrio cholera O12 human feces 9-72 hours 3-4 days
vomiting, rapid dehydration
Vibrio cholera non-O12 human feces 1-5 days Watery diarrhea 3-4 days
Abdominal pain, mucoid,
Yersinia enterocolitica animal feces and urine 2-7 days occasionally bloody 1-21 days average 9 days
diarrhea, fever
From: Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply:Assessing the New York City Strategy (2000) The National Academies Press
48. Incubation
Agent Source Clinical Syndrome Duration
Period
Protozoa:
Abdominal pain,
human and animal
Balantidium coli Unknown occasional mucoid or Unknown
feces
bloody diarrhea
Cryptosporidium human and animal
1-2 weeks Profuse, watery diarrhea 4-21 days
parvum feces
Abdominal pain,
Entamoeba
human feces 2-4 weeks occasional mucoid or Weeks to months
histolytica
bloody diarrhea
Watery diarrhea,
profound fatigue,
Cyclospora
human feces 1 week average anorexia, weight loss, Weeks if untreated
cayetenensis
bloating, abdominal
cramps, nausea
Abdominal pain, bloating,
human and animal
Giardia lamblia 5-25 days flatulence, loose, pale, 1-2 weeks to months and years
feces
greasy stools
Algae:
Cyanobacteria
(Anabaena spp., Toxin poisoning (blistering
Aphanizomenon Algal blooms in water A few hours of mouth, gastroenteritis, Variable
spp., Microcystis pneumonia)
spp.)
Helminths:
Dracunculus 8-14 months Blister, localized arthritis
medinensis2 (Guinea Larvae (usually 12 of joints adjacent to site Months
worm) months) of infection
From: Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply:Assessing the New York City Strategy (2000) The National Academies Press
49. Year Event
1829 First well-documented water filter built by James Simpson for the Chelsea Water Company of London.
1849 An estimated 110,000 people die from cholera in the UK.
1854 John Snow removes the handle from the Broad Street pump in an effort to stop the transmission of cholera in London.
1872–1874 First water filtration plants in the U.S. built in Poughkeepsie, NY, and Hudson, NY.
1884 Robert Koch identifies Vibrio cholera as the causal agent of cholera and describes the germ theory of disease.
Experiments on water filtration conducted in Lawrence, MA. This leads to the first rapid sand filter in 1893 and an
1887
observed 79 percent decrease in typhoid fever mortality over the next 5 years.
Rienecke observes that increases in the bacterial content of drinking water in Hamburg, Germany, corresponded to
1892 increases in infant mortality and report a 50 percent decline in infant mortality from diarrheal disease in the year after
Hamburg started to filter the public water supply.
1893 Chlorination used to treat sewage effluent in Brewster, NY, to protect New York City drinking water.
1897 Chlorination of drinking water in Maidstone, Kent, UK, after an outbreak of typhoid fever.
1902 First continuous chlorination of a water supply in Belgium.
1904 10 percent of U.S. urban population receives filtered water.
1907 46 U.S. cities using filtration to treat drinking water.
1908 First continuous, large-scale use of chlorination for an urban water supply in the U.S. in Jersey City, NJ.
36 percent of U.S. urban population receives filtered water. Allan Hazen writes enthusiastically about the benefits of water
1914
chlorination.
1920 Earliest data on occurrence and causes of waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. is collected.
1930 27 percent of community water supplies in the U.S. have disinfection facilities.
1920–1935 Typhoid fever is the most commonly recognized waterborne disease in the U.S.
1936–1961 Shigellosis is the most commonly recognized waterborne disease in the U.S.
Outbreak (16,000 cases) of waterborne salmonellosis in Riverside, CA. First documented waterborne outbreak of giardiasis
1965
in the U.S. occurs at Aspen, CO.
1971–1980 Giardiasis becomes the most commonly recognized waterborne disease.
1975 First recognized outbreak of waterborne disease caused by toxigenic E. coli in Crater Lake National Park, OR.
1984 First recorded waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurs in Texas.
1989 First recorded waterborne outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 occurs in Missouri (243 cases, 4 deaths).
Largest recorded waterborne disease outbreak in U.S. history caused by Cryptosporidium in Milwaukee, WI (estimated
1993
400,000 cases).
Sources: Craun (1986), Hunter (1997), ILSI (1993), Long mate (1966), NRC (1977), Sedgwick and MacNutt (1910).
68. State Of Pune’s Water Resources
1. More than 750 sq km catchment area to provide water to
450 sq km city
2. Pune cannot support any more growth without many dry
weeks and a significant reduction in water per person
3. Continued dependence on water imports will result in
regular water stress and scarcity
4. For any water security Pune has no option other than to
ensure its groundwater is recharged
5. Pune is destroying its lifeline to water
6. Pune is loosing its groundwater as it converts its nalas
and rivers to gutters
7. Pune is putting the health of its residents to huge risk
8. Pune has moved from becoming water stressed to water
scarce
69. Recommendations
1. Enhance Pune’s water carrying
capacity by restoring nalas, rivers
and lakes to natural form and free
them from human management and
intervention
2. Develop waterbodies and their
setback regions into perpetual
easements for urban forestry and
conservation
3. Link all growth permissions to Pune’s
water carrying capacity
Editor's Notes
According to Population Action International, based upon the UN Medium Population Projections of 1998, more than 2.8 billion people in 48 countries will face water stress, or scarcity conditions by 2025. Of these countries, 40 are in West Asia, North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa. Over the next two decades, population increases and growing demands are projected to push all the West Asian countries into water scarcity conditions. By 2050, the number of countries facing water stress or scarcity could rise to 54, with a combined population of four billion people - about 40% of the projected global population of 9.4 billion (Gardner-Outlaw and Engleman, 1997; UNFPA, 1997). - Many African countries, with a population of nearly 200 million people, are facing serious water shortages. By the year 2025, it is estimated that nearly 230 million Africans will be facing water scarcity, and 460 million will live in water-stressed countries (Falkenmark, 1989). - Today, 31 countries, accounting for less than 8% of the world’s population, face chronic freshwater shortages. Among the countries likely to run short of water in the next 25 years are Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria and Peru. Parts of other large countries (e.g. China) already face chronic water problems (Hinrichsen et al., 1998; Tibbetts, 2000). - Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have resorted to the desalinization of seawater from the Gulf. Bahrain has virtually no freshwater (Riviere, 1989), while three-quarters of Saudi Arabia’s freshwater comes from fossil groundwater, which is reportedly being depleted at an average rate of 5.2 km3 per year (Postel, 1997).
According to Population Action International, based upon the UN Medium Population Projections of 1998, more than 2.8 billion people in 48 countries will face water stress, or scarcity conditions by 2025. Of these countries, 40 are in West Asia, North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa. Over the next two decades, population increases and growing demands are projected to push all the West Asian countries into water scarcity conditions. By 2050, the number of countries facing water stress or scarcity could rise to 54, with a combined population of four billion people - about 40% of the projected global population of 9.4 billion (Gardner-Outlaw and Engleman, 1997; UNFPA, 1997). - Many African countries, with a population of nearly 200 million people, are facing serious water shortages. By the year 2025, it is estimated that nearly 230 million Africans will be facing water scarcity, and 460 million will live in water-stressed countries (Falkenmark, 1989). - Today, 31 countries, accounting for less than 8% of the world’s population, face chronic freshwater shortages. Among the countries likely to run short of water in the next 25 years are Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria and Peru. Parts of other large countries (e.g. China) already face chronic water problems (Hinrichsen et al., 1998; Tibbetts, 2000). - Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have resorted to the desalinization of seawater from the Gulf. Bahrain has virtually no freshwater (Riviere, 1989), while three-quarters of Saudi Arabia’s freshwater comes from fossil groundwater, which is reportedly being depleted at an average rate of 5.2 km3 per year (Postel, 1997).