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Trainers' Training Programme on
'Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting and
Ground Water Recharge in Developing Countries - HRD and Technology Transfer'
22-27 February 2010, Bengaluru, India
Water is an essential daily need across all cross-sections of the society.
With the ever-increasing population, migration of vast multitudes of rural
population to metros and urban areas and development of industrial towns,
the developing countries are facing great pressure on the existing
infrastructure on conventional water supply systems and severe constraints
on financial and material resources. Municipal water supply in most cities
is unreliable and many villages in the developing countries do not have
potable water supply. To provide sustainability, the traditional methods of
water harvesting and usage methods need to be revived and if required,
modified to suit the present day requirement. Rainwater Harvesting (RWH),
which is seemingly an ideal sustainable solution, entails the collection of
rain in a scientific and controlled manner for future use and consists of
roof top water harvesting, water from open areas such as paved ways, parks,
roads, fields and in lakes and ponds.
In order to address the above issues, the Centre for Science and Technology
of the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre) is
executing a collaborative project entitled 'Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting
and Ground Water Recharge in Developing Countries - HRD and Technology
Transfer'. The project is an integrated effort on rainwater harvesting and
ground water recharge as a model solution to solve the water shortage
problem in conventional water supply systems. The project aims at capacity
building through HRD and technology transfer by (a) preparing a
state-of-the-art report and (b) holding a centralized training programme for
professionals engaged in implementing relevant schemes that would empower
the participants to organize national level training courses to benefit the
technicians in their own countries.
As a part of the above mentioned G-77/PGTF Project and also to complement
the efforts being made by the Department of Science and Technology (DST),
Government of India, under its Technology Mission - Winning, Augmentation
and Renovation (WAR) for Water, the Centre for Science and Technology of the
Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre) in association
with DST, Government of India and the Karnataka State Council for Science &
Technology (KSCST) announce the organisation of a Trainers' Training
Programme on 'Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting and Ground Water Recharge in
Developing Countries - HRD and Technology Transfer' during 22-27 February
2010 at Bengaluru, India. The training programme has been primarily designed
for the field experts nominated by the Focal Points of the NAM S&T Centre in
its member countries, and representatives of the concerned organizations and
government authorities in other developing countries.
Application for participation in the training programme may be submitted in
the prescribed form latest by 5th February 2010. A pre-condition
for consideration for selection is that the applicant should submit a
tentative future plan of action, which they intend to implement in their
respective countries after getting trained from this training programme. |
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