Online Training Managing Greywater in Rural Areas : CSE
Last Date for Registration: January 15, 2025 / Duration 10 hours / Date : 3 -12 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. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
One of the ambitious targets that India’s Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has been working towards is that of connecting every rural household in the country by the end of this year (2024) with a functional tap supplying 55 litre of water per capita per day. The JJM dashboard says that almost 79 per cent of houses in rural India now receive water from their household taps.
If the target is achieved fully, it would mean a family of six will use up about 330 litre of water every day. As per a thumb rule, 70 per cent of water used for washing and bathing and in kitchens comes out as greywater — this means every 100 litre of water used will give rise to 70 litre of greywater. Once all the 194 million households get a functional tap, the amount of greywater generated will be mind boggling! What’s more, this does not include the greywater generated due to unofficial use of groundwater extracted through borewells and tubewells
The huge amounts of greywater that will be actually generated can completely swamp entire areas, clog all drains and outlets, and pollute neighbouring waterbodies as well as the land. In today’s climate-risked world, where severe water crisis is becoming a reality, this greywater can be used as a resource – it can be treated and utilised to recharge the groundwater. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites you to apply for a short online training programme that can tell you just how to do it
KEY THEMES
- Greywater management and climate change – the linkages
- Planning tools to manage greywater in rural areas
- Greywater treatment-technology selection matrix
- Tools for planning and designing treatment systems
- Conveyance options for carrying greywater
- Technical brief on treatment technologies at cluster and village level
- Reuse of treated greywater
- Case studies
Course Fees
Rs 2,500 : For Indian participants
US $30 : For participants from other countries
Training Date
February 3-12, 2025
Last Date for Registration: January 15, 2025
Special Features
10% early bird discount
20% discount for more than two participants from the same organisation
Last date to avail early bird discount: January 1, 2025
Who would benefit from this training programme
Industry professionals, researchers, government officials, non-profits, academicians, engineers, architects, planners, consultants and students who wish to work in the field of wastewater management
PARTICIPANTS WILL BE AWARDED A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION UPON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE PROGRAMME
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT COURSE COORDINATOR
Swati Bhatia
Deputy Programme Manager, Water, CSE
Email: swati.bhatia@cseindia.org
Whatsapp: +91- 9911339540
