North America

Event: Rural Water Day
City: Flesherton
Country: Canada
Email: our_water_works@hotmail.com
Description: Fundraising and community interaction for legal action to allow local control of industrial water taking and environmental protection through land use planning.

 

Event: World Water Day - CIDA
City: Hull
Country: Canada
Email: aly_shady@acdi-cida.gc.ca
Web URL: http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/
Description: Annual celeberation of world water day.

 

Event: Humanities Research Group Seminar: Many Paths To Water For Development
City: Windsor, Ontario
Country: Canada
Email: Rosemary Halford: rfh@uwindsor.ca
Humanities Research Group: hrgmail@uwindsor.ca
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Description: Humanities Research Group University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
Frank Simpson Professor of Geology and Coordinator, IDRET, Windsor International
MANY PATHS TO WATER FOR DEVELOPMENT
2:00 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2002 209 Odette Building, Wyandotte and Sunset
Different disciplines, working together, give the best chances of success in international-development research, with a focus on water. Participatory management of natural resources by project partners, among the poor of less developed countries, sets the scene for multidisciplinary interaction. The poor must assume ownership of project technologies, if applications of the research are to be sustainable.
The University’s Earth Sciences Department worked with BAIF Development Research Foundation, Pune, and the rural poor on a management strategy for water supply in Akole Taluka, Maharashtra State, India. Water-related aspects of indigenous knowledge, religious practice, existing land use and ancient, Indian Science were integrated with modern techniques of hydrogeology and approaches to water and soil conservation from other dryland areas. Demonstration sites for water harvesting and spreading gave a year-round water supply for domestic use. As well, improvements were made to agricultural production, livestock management, gender equity, poverty alleviation, public health and village morale. These outcomes are sustainable. Lessons learned contribute to training of BAIF’s programme personnel.
Projects of the Department in Nigeria and Ukraine and possible, future involvement of the University in international and development activities are considered briefly. This discussion is presented in the context of World Water Day 2002.
For more information, phone Rosemary Halford, 253-3000, ext. 3506. No admission charge.
E-Mail: hrgmail@uwindsor.ca

 

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