RAIN and Live Earth Run for Water in Amsterdam
A rainwater harvesting project of BSP-Nepal, one of RAINs partners in Nepal, has been selected for the Live Earth Run for Water on the 18th of April in Amsterdam. For more information on the project, visit the Akvo website.
Do you want to know more about Live Earth and the Run for Water in Amsterdam? Or Live Earth Run for Water in your country, visit www.liveearth.org and most of all: sign up and RUN FOR WATER!
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.”
