Category Archives: Peer Water Exchange (PWX)
Field Trip Part II: I <3 Water
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’ve become a total water and sanitation nerd My day visiting projects was basically epic and after being inspired by the people in Panoli, learning about watersheds, as I did in the next village, was almost excitement overload for me! As we drove toward Sherikoldara, over the bumps in the road [...]
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Field Trip Part I: Girl Power
Yesterday I finally got to visit one of the BPR-funded water projects! After months of tireless work with the Youth Board in Boulder a few years back, I finally got to meet the people who benefited from the projects that the awesome young people I had the pleasure of working with had helped to fundraise [...]
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A Volunteer’s Adventures Part Three: A Day in the Life
In addition to learning thousands of things about water and sanitation, I am also having the greatest time learning about Indian office life and sipping chai about six times a day! I usually wake up around seven to the lovely sound of water buffalo and goats cruising along on the road outside my window. I [...]
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A Volunteer’s Adventures Part Two: Hydrogeology and Golpapur
Not only is the campus absolutely gorgeous, but all of the staff and volunteers I’ve met working for and with Gram Vikas are incredible as well! In addition to the 500 or so employees of Gram Vikas, various contacts from all kinds of organizations come through Mohuda all the time. For a traveler exploring the [...]
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Adventures in Volunteering
Experiencing reality in the field of water - jumping off from the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to land in rural Orissa on the Gram Vikas campus.
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Improving the PWX Application Process
After experiencing one round of the application review process, I have some suggestions on improving it. To keep these dialogues concise and to the point I tend to believe that the key solution lays in the project proposal and applications. These may have to be presented by adopted concise and comprehensive standard format, containing specific [...]
Adapting RWH to rainfall intensity changes due to climate change
Climate change is affecting rainfall intensity. Do rainwater harvesting systems need to adapt as the intensity increases and possibly the gap between rainfalls?
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Heavy email traffic in PWX
The June 2008 application review cycle generated a heavy flood of emails. How can we handle it and how we can change it in the future?
PWX taught at African Women and Water Conference
Blue Planet Run Foundation’s Annette Fay went to Kenya to attend the African Women and Water Conference in June 2008. 15 pairs of women were being trained in water technologies so that they could go back to their communities and start water projects. As part of the conference, these women were also trained by Annette [...]
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Egypt’s Nile v India’s Ganga: Practicality and Reverence