This manual is a comprehensive documentation of localised community-level approaches in urban wastewater management. Besides providing an overview of eco-sanitation and decentralised wastewater treatment technologies, it also captures the emerging trends in this sector.

Authors :R.K Srinivasan, Suresh Babu S.V
Pages : 35
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Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
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A major people’s movement in rural Rajasthan has revived the river Arvari and its tributaries. Water management techniques have completely changed the
landscape and lives in this once-denuded region.

Duration: 14 Minutes
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Degradation of values translates into degradation of nature. In a corrupt system, people lose respect for values. With large scale corruption in the natural resource management, people lose respect for nature. The film takes viewers to look at irrational policies (not based on scientific understanding, but on vested interests) in management of rivers, floods, forests, and urban planning; and highlights the results of such distorted prac tices.


Duration: 23 Minutes
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‘Clean Your Act’ is a film about alternative ways to treat wastewater. It is about how communities, institutions and individual households have begun literally cleaning up their act by recycling their wastewater using technologies that match the scale of their need. The film’s crew travelled from Puducherry to Pune, from Indore to Ujjain, and from Agra to Delhi to capture the various technologies at work, each unique and different, but all effective. The film’s purpose is to break out of STP-dependence. Whether you are a householder, architect, engineer or professional interested in spreading the word on ecological sanitation, the film will serve the purpose.

Duration: 42 Minutes
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Package of all 16 films at 20% discount !!
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This is the second edition of our Wastewater Recycling Manual. The manual presents real-life case studies of wastewater treatment methods adopted in various parts of India. Presented simply, it will interest architects, engineers, educational institutions, RWAs etc.

Authors :R.K Srinivasan, Suresh Babu S.V
Pages : 100
ISBN : 978-81-86906-43-9
Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
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Faecal Attraction is the latest film from CSE which is about the absurd relationship between rich people's shit and poor people's water. Most rivers in India have turned into sewage canals. The stretches passing through cities are the worst off. What the urban middle class is most bothered about is the lost beauty of these rivers. So urban authorities evict poor people living in 'illegal' shanties by the rivers or they build expensive sewage treatment plants to clean the rivers. But nothing works. This comes at a cost. Poor people get very little water, mostly unsafe, and pay more for it in the bargain. They do not get sanitation cover and pay a heavy price in terms of health.

Duration: 32 Minutes
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Package of all 22 films at 20% discount !!
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Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System provides a comprehensive overview of India's millennia-old traditions of water harvesting. This book triggered a nationwide interest in community-based water management.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Pages : 404
ISBN :
Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
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Language: English/Hindi Learn More