People and Organisations

Microfinance for safe drinking water-ACCESS & HUL partnership
On the occassion of World Water Day 2008, ACCESS talks about its work in using microfinance to obtain safe drinking water. Posted on 21 Mar, 2008 12:12 AM

Drop by drop ACCESS & HUL in Base of Pyramid Partnership for Safe Drinking Water for Rural Poor:

Yakalakshmi lives in Nekkunda village, Telengana region in Andhra Pradesh with her husband and two children. Though she has water piped to her house by the village panchayat, her entire family fell ill for a month last monsoon season by drinking water directly from the tap. "We all got high fever and severe diarrhea", she says, "we had to spend around Rs. 4000 on health care, which was very difficult for us". So when she got the opportunity this January to buy an effective water purifier through her Self Help Group (SHG) on an installment basis she was one of the first to sign up. Yakalakshmi is just one of the beneficiaries of a unique tie-up between ACCESS Development Services, a microfinance technical services non-profit organization, and Hindustan Unilever Limited, one of the country's largest producers of fast-moving consumer goods, to provide safe drinking water to rural poor. "Most of these villages have piped water or boreholes", says Padma, Project Coordinator at a local NGO, PEACE, "the problem is that tests by UNICEF in this district show that up to 70 percent of these sources are contaminated."The contamination gets even worse during the rainy season, especially due to poor sanitation and waste-management practices.

70-year old enthusiastic participant in the "Save Arkavathy" walk
70-year old enthusiastic participant in the "Save Arkavathy" walk
Posted on 31 Jan, 2008 10:18 PM

On 29th January, my colleague Binayak and I went to Nelmangala to participate in the "Save Arkavathy"Walk. The Walk was organized hoping that the participants would learn from the experiences of the villagers along the Arkavathy River and be able to generate interest in them to join the walk.

Sankat Mochan Foundation and the Ganga
Sankat Mochan Foundation and the Ganga Posted on 15 Dec, 2007 07:31 AM

veer-bhadra-mishra.jpg How polluted are our rivers? Assessments vary, but all point to serious contamination.

The I-India shower bus for the street children of Jaipur
The I-India shower bus for the street children of Jaipur Posted on 24 Nov, 2007 08:37 AM

Hydrology links compiled by C.P Kumar of NIH, Roorkee
Hydrology links compiled by C.P Kumar of NIH, Roorkee Posted on 16 Nov, 2007 09:47 AM

C.P. Kumar of the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee provides a list of web communities on hydrology:

Water resource website-www.allaboutwater.org
Water resource website-www.allaboutwater.org Posted on 04 Nov, 2007 02:03 PM

www.allaboutwater.org is an interesting site for laypersons but also to an extent for water resources researchers, covering a wide range of facts relating water vis-à-vis our planet and the human race and presenting its information in a clear, user-friendly way.

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