Handson Science With Village Women

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Hands-on ScienceWith Village Women
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Presented by

• Bhagya Rangachar

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Thirst
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The Fortunate
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Spreading Deserts
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The Inevitable
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So?

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Childrens Lovecastles Trust (CLT)

• Web www. cltindia. org Mail
  info_at_cltindia.org

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About CLT

• Founded in December 1997
• Offers non-formal education programs through
  formal networks
• Mission To build conducive, interactive and
  creative learning environment through community
  awareness, nutrition aids and alternative
  educative means to support education
• Vision Combine the power of technology and the
  convenience of the school system to make
  education more effective and efficient

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CLT Way

• Integrating disciplines - Chain of Learning
• Experiential learning
• Project - based learning
• Technology aided learning
• Hands-on- Science Lab 2 School 2 Community
• Peer 2 Peer and Mentoring
• Direct community involvement in development of
  schools

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CLTs Approach Hands-on Science

• Science Club in action - Learn the ways of nature

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CLTs Approach Hands-on Science

• Woman - 2 - Woman Workshop on Mushroom
  Cultivation,
• Nutrition Management, Vermicompost etc.,

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CLTs Approach Hands-on Science

• Computer 2 Career programmes for the
• Community Youth

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CLTs Approach Hands-on Science

• Flora and Fauna in association with
• University of Agricultural Sciences-Popularising
  Life Sciences

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Women and IT in India

• Current Indicators
• 34 Female Adult literacy
• 38 Female secondary school enrolment
• 44 Female youth illiteracy
• 36 of tertiary students in Natural Sciences are
  female
• 19 female teaching staff at tertiary
• 23 Indias Internet users are women
• Natural Sciences include fields of computer
  sciences, Engineering, Math, Architecture, Town
  planning, Transportation and communication
• - UNESCO 1999 Statistical Year book

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Village Women use Science and Technology Lab -
2 - Land Concept

• Why women?
• -Agents of change, they influence decisions at
  home and at the Panchayat
• -Water at home is managed by the women
• -Girl child is often pulled out of school to
  ferry water from distant sources

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CLTs Approach Hands-on Science

• An All Girls team
• Brainstorming Session
• Identify water related issues
• Joins hands with
• The Rainwater Club

Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting
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3 Es

• Team partners with
• The Rainwater Club
• (www. rainwaterclub. org)
• They drive the project
• from Education to
• Extension and Execution - 3Es

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The Team in action

• Process
• Baseline survey
• Analysis
• Action plan
• Implementation
• Documentation
• Follow up

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Technology as an Enabler

• Team uses Computers
• to record data
• and information
• Computer aided
• microscopes to test
• water
• Mapping software to
• design promotional tools

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Wheres the water?
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Water Cycle
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About Bangalore

• Location 12 58 N Latitude and 77 35 E
  Longitude
• Altitude 921 Mts. Above Sea
• Population 6 Million
• Planning area 1279 Sq.km
• Rainfall Avg 970 mm over the last 10 years

• Location 12 58 N Latitude and 77
  35 E Longitude
• Altitude 921 Mts. Above Sea
• Population 6 Million
• Planning area 1279 Sq.km
• Rainfall Avg 970 mm over the last 10 years

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The Facts

• Bangalore gets its water from the river Cauvery
  95 kms away and 500 meters below the city
• Production cost water is very high at Rs 18 a
  kilo-liter. Will become Rs 26 a kilo-liter.
• Ceiling on the availability of water-1500 Million
  Liters per Day - good enough for 7 million people
  only, i.e., by the year 2011.
• Surface and ground water on the decline.

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Disappearing sources in Bangalore

• Lakes and Tanks
• 261 in 1960
• 81 in 1997
• 55 in 2000

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Why harvest Rainwater ?

• A NATURAL RESOURCE PRESENTLY WASTED
• PREVENTS GROUND WATER DEPLETION
• A GOOD SUPPLEMENT TO PIPED WATER
• POSITIVE COST BENEFIT RATIO
• RELATIVELY POLLUTION FREE
• WATER CONSERVATION SELF-DEPENDANCE
• REDUCES ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

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What is Rainwater Harvesting?

• Collection
• Filtration
• Storage
• Future Usage
• Recharge

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How much water do I get ?
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HOW much water do I use ?
Consumption range 50 ltrs - 300 ltrs per person
per day
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Components

• Catchment
• Roof, Paved area, Land
• Conveyance
• Pipes, chains, gutters, drains
• Storage
• - Ponds, lakes, sumps, tanks, aquifers

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A typical system
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Catchments
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Gutters
Gutter-for sloping roof PVC pipes Polycarbonate
pipes GI pipes Aluminium Pipes
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Down pipes

• Down water pipes made of
• HDPE/PVC/AC PIPES

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First-rain separator(Bypass)

• Simple
  Easy to maintain

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Filtration Units
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Storage
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Usage
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Recharge
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Dos Donts

• Storeinsecticides,
  rusting iron, manure, detergents
• Use Pets on terrace
• Use chemically polluted water to charge ground
  water

• Clean-roofs and terraces
• Provide adequate storage systems
• Pollution free storage systems

? USEFUL tip Guppy fish for mosquito control
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Scaling the Project

• 2002 Made the school Water Literate
• 2003
• Installed prototype
• Designed promotional literature
• 2004
• Establish the Rainwater Resource Center
• Plan to set up 100 units in 10 villages
• 2005
• Scaling it to 10,000 Households
• Creating global awareness on management of
  natural resources

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Rooftop Rainwater system in a village

• This is how it looks and works

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Let us make this a movement
Write to info_at_cltindia.org
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THANK YOU