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Lerma River Basin Water Plan: IWRM into practice in Mexico

Type of Change: Changes in policies, plans and strategies Boundary Level: River Basin Summary/Theme: The IWRM knowledge gained during REMERH’s training was put into practice during the development of the Lerma River Basin Water Plan by providing tools and examples that helped put IWRM into practice in Mexico. Ana Karen participated in a training course organized by REMERH on […]

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Arsenic water contamination information and mitigation practices shared with teachers and students in India

Asia, Stories /

Type of Change: New/further knowledge gained Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: Arsenic water contamination information and mitigation practices shared with teachers and students in India India faces a severe drinking water crisis with more than 50 million people exposed to arsenic contaminated groundwater. There are several regions in the country affected with arsenic contamination and with no access or very limited

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Arsenic mitigation practices shared with social health activists and nurses in India

Asia, Stories, Uncategorised /

Type of Change: Changes in practices and programs’ implementation Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: Arsenic mitigation practices shared with social health activists and nurses in India Arsenic contamination is a real challenge in many areas in India. SCaN conducted a series of training courses on arsenic mitigation technologies to accelerate and empower key stakeholders with the knowledge required to mitigate water

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Developing reusable sanitary pads for marginalized and vulnerable women groups in Costa Rica

Latin America and the Caribbean, Stories /

Type of Change: New/further knowledge gained Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: Developing reusable sanitary pads for marginalized and vulnerable women groups in Costa Rica Ana López Ramírez, a Costa Rican community leader, attended REDICA’s ‘Sanitation, Hygiene and Menstrual Health’ regional workshop. She was exposed to an eye-opening and unknown reality: the serious challenges that women in most vulnerable conditions, who

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Public and private sectors compliance with industrial waste and water discharge in Uganda

Africa & Mediterranean, Stories /

Type of Change: Changes in policies, plans and strategies Boundary Level: National Summary/Theme: Applying participatory knowledge exchanges to change how policy monitoring is done in the public and private sectors for compliance with industrial waste and water discharge in Uganda Ms. Stacy Natukunda, a Water Officer for Uganda’s Ministry of Water and Environment, attended a couple training programs offered by Nile IWRMnet. After attending a training on competitive

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WASH standards at the community level in Uganda

Africa & Mediterranean, Stories /

Type of Change: New/further knowledge gained Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: Achieving improved WASH standards at the community level in Uganda by engaging Water User Committees and primary schools in water education. Aaron Acuda, a volunteer with World Vision in Oyam district, Uganda, was working on the improvement of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) standards in the area when he came across

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Changes towards efficient water use in paddy farming in the Deduruoya basin of Sri Lanka

Asia, Stories, Uncategorised /

Type of Change: Changes in practices and programs’ implementation Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: Changes towards efficient water use in paddy farming in the Deduruoya basin of Sri Lanka Paddy is the staple food for Sri Lankans and the main income earner for rural farmers. However, the traditional way of cultivating paddy is highly inefficient regarding water use, as it uses

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Sri Lanka: student innovates with a smart water pipe cleaner to help decrease the level of water pollution

Asia, Stories /

Type of Change: New/further knowledge gained Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: A school student innovates with a smart water pipe cleaner to help decrease the level of water pollution in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka Cap-Net Lanka conducted the Aqua Republica Program at the University of Rajarata aiming to provide school children access to a computer-based knowledge management tool for sustainable water management. R.M. Ravindu Oshan Wijesinghe took part in the training

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Safe water usage and water source protection in the central hilly area of Sri Lanka

Asia, Stories /

Type of Change: Changes in practices and programs’ implementation Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: Safe water usage and water source protection in the central hilly area of Sri Lanka Cap-Net Lanka conducted a series of awareness programs: ‘Safe water usage and water source protection’ for leaders of water community-based organizations’ (CBOs) in the Badulla and Nuwara Eliya districts. These districts are located

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Food tower’ to grow vegetables in rural areas from Bangladesh which have saline water

Asia, Stories /

Type of Change: New/further knowledge gained Boundary Level: Community Summary/Theme: Developing a climate-adaptive solution called ‘Food tower’ to grow vegetables in rural areas from Bangladesh which have saline water. Mr. Salah Uddin Titol works at a local NGO called SPACE (Society for People’s Action in Change & Equity) in Bangladesh. He participated in Cap-Net Bangladesh’s ‘Training of Trainers (ToT) on Climate Change, Water and

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