The Dutch Channel Swimmers sponsor RAIN project in Senegal
A rainwater harvesting project in the village of Fayako (Senegal) will be sponsored by 3 former Dutch top-athletes who call themselves The Dutch Channel Swimmers. They will swim across the Channel between the United Kingdom and France to raise funds and create awareness for the project in Senegal. In this project 21 households will receive individual rainwater harvesting tanks of 10 m3 each to provide water at their doorstep. The Dutch Channel Swimmers selected this project from the Akvo projects. RAIN wishes them all the luck and inspiration needed to achieve this admirable goal!
Rainwater Harvesting Contest in Burkina Faso
With WaterAid and Crepa, RAIN is co-organising a contest in Burkina Faso with the objective to develop a low-cost water collecting storage system, which is durable, safe, and suitable for multiple uses, and which can be replicated, operated and maintained by the users themselves.
The registration will close on 22 February 2010 at 16.00 hour. Details about the contest can be found here (in French).
Making it RAIN in Delft!
The question was: Is it possible to work on teambuilding, which has a social-civil purpose at the same time? One year later, team Planvorming of the Waterboard of Delfland is working on a project with RAIN, funded by AquaforAll. Within the project with RAIN, the team works, together with international water expert Hans Hartung, on an inventory of best practices on rainwater harvesting techniques, financing mechanisms, projects, programmes and policies. Read more...
Jan-Kees (senior advisor): “In my daily work I try to find solutions to cope with the burden of heavy rainfall. It is inspiring to do it the other way around in this project and search for ways to make optimal use of rainwater.”
RAIN participated in MUS group Meeting in Rome
RAIN participated in the MUS Group meeting on the 24th and 25th of August in Rome. The MUS group is the result of the thematic group known as PRODWAT (productive uses of water at the household level) which established in 2003 and in 2006, reflecting a broader focus on improving the delivery of multiple-use water services at the household level by agencies traditionally associated with both the domestic and irrigation (productive) water sectors, changed to the Multiple Use water Services (MUS) Group. Read more...
Regional High-Level Conference in Nepal on Rainwater Harvesting
The Government of Nepal Ministry of Physical Planning and Works oganised a Regional High-level Meeting on rainwater harvesting (RWH), where Ministers / Secretaries, senior policymakers and representatives from non-governmental organisations working in South-Asian countries were invited to share knowledge, expertise and experiences among the region from June 28 to 30 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Read more...
3R website: BeBuffered!
The organisers of the session "Water Recharge, Retention and Reuse: 3R Solutions for Water and Food Security" at Stockholm World Water Week 2009 have launched their website: www.bebuffered.com.
