Fwd: Newsletter: 20,000 students across India test fluoride in water

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From: India Water Portal <contact@indiawaterportal.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Subject: Newsletter: 20,000 students across India test fluoride in water
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Greetings from India Water Portal! This is our fortnightly newsletter bringing you news and knowledge from the past 15 days. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Lead Stories Over 20,000 students across India test groundwater for fluoride Map of fluoride results received from schools across India Schools Water Portal partnered with Oracle Education Foundation in a water quality testing programme that involved 1,339 schools across India. The aim of the programme was to spread awareness on fluoride contamination in groundwater. This endeavour helped increase water literacy of more than 20,000 students by making them active participants in the nation-wide discussion on deteriorating groundwater quality, especially fluoride contamination. Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Contact us GD Agarwal continues fast from January 15 2012 to save Ganga river ICIMOD book explores local responses to too much and too little water in the Greater Himalayan region Lake Protection Committee to take care of Hyderabad's lakes, will curb encroachments, conserve water bodies & divert sewage Interlinking rivers project does not account for the people it will forcefully displace Knowledge From Seminar magazine: Maps, lakes and citizens: Using surveys in lake conservation Institute of Agriculture & Trade Policy document on corporatising water: India's draft National Water Policy IRC Water & Sanitation Centre report assesses India's progress towards sustainable service delivery in rural water supply Blog Impact report of watershed development programme in Ayyannapalem village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh Draft National Water Policy (2012) fails to take into account the multiple, complex problems relating to water in India – Comments by M S Vani Events India Water Week 2012, National Water Development Agency, April 10-12, 2012, New Delhi India Water Expo, April 27-29 2012, Chennai   Opportunities Call for papers: Realising the right to sanitation in India: challenges & way forward You are receiving this email because you subscribed to our newsletter at www.indiawaterportal.org, or you requested us to add you to our mailing list, or you are special. Contact us here. subscribe to this newsletter | unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences