Integrated online and residential training: Lake Rejuvenation and Groundwater Management in Urban Areas : CSE
Part A: (Online) Apply by July 10, 2024 / Part B: (Online) Apply by January 10, 2025
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.
Indian cities are no strangers to waterbodies. Every Indian city has its share of lakes, tanks, ponds, rivers etc. These are invaluable sources of water, food and livelihood; act as bulwarks against urban floods; and many have enormous religious and cultural significance. Rapid and rampant urbanisation has, however, spelt the death-knell for many of these waterbodies. While dead and dying waterbodies fail to absorb rainwater and recharge groundwater, cities are using up every drop as they suck the aquifers dry or bring in water from further and further away.
In an age which is increasingly feeling the brunt of climate change, one of the resources that would be severely hit is water. It is imperative for cities, therefore, to invest in rejuvenating their waterbodies and manage their groundwater more sustainably
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites you to apply for its two-part training programme on this subject. See details of the two parts below.
Course fees
Part A: (Online)
Rs 3,000 (for Indian participants);
US $100 (for foreign participants).
Last date of application: July 10, 2024. Early bird discount available till June 30, 2024
Part B: (Onsite)
Rs. 28,000 (single occupancy accommodation);
Rs. 25,600 (double occupancy accommodation).
Last date of application: January 10, 2025. Early bird discount available till December 31, 2024
- Residential fees (Part B) includes accommodation, food, training material, field visit and travel from CSE’s main office at
- Tughlakabad Institutional Area to the training centre and back.
- Early bird entries can avail a discount of 10 per cent. Two or more participants coming from the same organisation can avail a total discount of 20 per cent.
- Special discount: Full waiver on online fees for participants who also apply for residential training
Who will benefit from the training
- Engineers, architects, planners, researchers, academicians, civil society members and students aspiring to work in the field of environment
- Fees once paid are not returnable/refundable or transferable.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT
TRAINING COORDINATOR
SWATI BHATIA
Deputy Programme Manager, Water, CSE
swati.bhatia@cseindia.org / vivek.sah@cseindia.org
Mob No: + 91 9911339540 / 9708887214
