Catch Water Newsletter August-September 2002

	*A NEW BEGINNING*
	By the people
	*IN FOCUS*
	Open letter to the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Khandwa,Catching every droplet The lost pond
	*CAMPAIGN*
	From the courtroom Face to face Destroy, then revive
	INITIATIVE
	Woman power Paying up A tiny oasis in Uttar Pradesh Smile! CII’s water meet Rotary’s initiative Brick by brick Nurturing the future CSE’s pilgrims in Madhya Pradesh Taking initiative Experiments with water
	NEWS FROM GUJARAT
	Pure rain In a great hurry!
	JAL BIRADARI
	As priceless as amrit Reviving pynes
	JAL YODHA
	D V Subramanaian Ashutosh Agnihotri
	NEWS FROM CHENNAI
	Rain centre inaugurated The Alacrity cycle Porous roads Plumbers’ meet Women’s meet
	CSE' LATEST DESIGNS
	Making a mark in Laburnam
	TECHNOLOGY
	Pollutants to bind roads Make your own rain gauge Smart farming tool Techno tit bits
	CLASSROOM
	WATER WISDOM
	FUNDING AGENCY
	NEWS FROM ABROAD
	China: Catching rain in Gansu China: Wastage banned South Korea: All in the game.... USA: From sewage to tap South Africa: Weeding out South Africa: Water at Earth Summit
	WATER IN NEWS
	AN OPPORTUNITY
	READERS SPACE
	BOOK/DOCUMENTS
	VISUAL WATCH
	WEB INFO
	EVENT
	NOTICE BOARD

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Vol. 4

No. 4

August-September 2002

Smile!

SMILE – student’s mobilisation initiative for learning through exposure - is conceived by a New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Indo German Social Service Society, about ten years back. It involves 22 NGOs and Pravah is one of them. On August 25, with CSE’s assistance, Pravah organised a workshop for the collegiate on the issue of rainwater harvesting (RWH). A CSE staffer introduced the participants to traditions, current practices and principles of RWH. The day concluded with students expressing a desire to do RWH in their complexes.

Rotary’s initiative

To sensitise the members about rainwater harvesting (RWH) a meeting was organised by Rotary’s Inner Wheel Club (IWC) on August 19. A CSE representative attended as a resource person. The participants were introduced to the status and nature of the city’s water problems. The examples of different sites with RWH in and around Delhi, cleared several doubts about the potential of RWH. The response of the participants was overwhelming. Manju Bogra, secretary of IWC, said "The information provided by CSE has inspired many to take up RWH, with the available resources."

Brick by brick
CSE’s trains engineers and architects

CII’s water meet

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), organised a one day seminar-cum-workshop on August 28, to sensitise its members about the potential of rainwater harvesting (RWH). The participants keenly followed the presentations given by Delhi Jal Board, Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and CSE. During the question-answer session, CGWB was asked to share its reserves of technical data with CSE to ensure that sustainable benefits reach the people. At the end of the day, the participants visited the RWH works undertaken by Paharpur Business Centre, Delhi.

In a bid to strengthen the backbone of the construction industry, CSE organised a training workshop for builders, architects and engineers, on August 13-14. About 24 professionals actively participated from both government and non-governmental organisations. Specialised training modules were designed to encourage this group to take up rainwater harvesting (RWH).

The first session on August 13, focused on the planning and design aspects of RWH. Dilli-o-Dilli, a presentation made by a CSE staffer, discussed the effects of neglecting traditional water harvesting practices on Delhi’s present water scenario. Following sessions detailed the hydro-geological set up of the city and different techniques of harnessing rain.

I am incharge of three rainwater harvesting projects. Earlier, I had some ideas . This workshop has made me confident of
implementing them as well.
SKArora,
Military Engineering Service

Akshay Kaul, a leading landscape architect, opened flood gates of ideas by introducing his innovative works on RWH. As a training exercise, the group then prepared designs for the sites selected by CSE.

The second day started with an impact evaluation analysis of the different RWH techniques. A site visit to CSE’s model projects - Jamia Hamdard University and Panchsheel Park Colony was an experience that the group cherished the most. In the latter half of the day, different RWHlegislations of Delhi were briefed.Followed by Jeya Kumar’s presentation. Being a builder from Chennai, Jeya Kumar gave the group another perspective of doing RWH.The group then collectively discussed ways to convince their clients to take up RWH.

Continuing with its endeavour CSE announces its next workshop for the army engineers in October.

For further information:
Eklavya at: eklavya@cseindia.org or Suresh Babu SV at svsuresh@cseindia.org

Nurturing future

The natural resource management unit of CSE, is offering a four-week internship programme to the students of architecture and engineering in rainwater harvesting. No fees is charged and these courses are organised during the summer and winter breaks of colleges.

During summers this year, CSE trained four engineering students — three (A Agarwal, S Pruthi and B Singh) from Delhi College of Environmental Engineering and one (Fabrice Arki) from Ecole Nationale des Travaux, Lyon, France.

In these four weeks, they did a comparative analysis of the traditional and contemporary water harvesting systems; the nature of water demand, supply, sources of water, depleting water levels, deteriorating quality amongst many other aspects. The students visit the sites, where rainwater harvesting systems have been installed. Later, they designed such systems for the new sites. At the end of the course, they were given certificates.

To join the course:
Eklavya at eklavya@cseindia.org or RKSrinivasan at rksri@cseindia.org

Smile!

Rotary’s initiative

Brick by brick CSE’s trains engineers and architects

CII’s water meet

Nurturing future

Brick by brick
CSE’s trains engineers and architects