September 18, 2000 India will soon be squeezed to the last drop, if water is
not captured where it falls. To inform about solutions to the looming water crisis in
India, the Centre for Science and Environment is holding an exhibition in Water Asia 2000
at Hall 7 G, Stall number B 126 to show how communities of India have perfected the
technique of collecting and conserving water where it falls, wherever it falls AND HOW YOU TOO CAN DO IT Dear After having gone through a massive 50-year phase of constructing big dams and canals, we still do not have drinking water. The solutions does not lie in the use of hitech technology or in pipelines, pumps or deep borewells. After all, if there is no water, of what use is a pump or a pipeline? The solution is to look up – at the sky – at rainwater harvesting. To look at local water harvesting systems and comunities to cope with the emerging water crisis. These systems have been engineered by people over the millennia, from the dry cold desert of Ladakh to the dry hot desert of Rajasthan, from the sub temperate Himalayas to the tropical heights of the Nilgiris to catch and conserve water. These invisible rural engineers have succeeded in securing water where there is virtually none. If official planners flounder on, as they do now and do not conserve and develop these age-old techniques of water conservation there might be none of us to mourn our passing. The 3-day exhibition on the potential of water harvesting will be organised by the Centre for Science and Environment from September 18th to 20 , 2000 as part of the Water Asia exhibition at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.. (Hall 7 G, Stall no B 126). You are invited to visit our stall. This exhibition is an answer to meeting the local water needs not only in thousands of Indian villages at the mercy of vagrant monsoon and without the comforts of expensive piped water supply but also in Indian cities in grip of severe water crisis. Yours cordially Indira Khurana For more information please contact Indira Khurana at 29955124, 29955125, 29956394, 29956401 Fax No: 3070505 Ms Shiela Dixit Dear Ms Dixit, The Centre for Science and Environment cordially invites you to visit our stall B 126, in Hall 7 G during the Water Asia 2000 between the 18th and 20th of September in Pragati Maidan. Our exhibition informs about successful rainwater harvesting in rural as well as urban areas. Given your interest in community efforts and in promoting rainwater harvesting, you would find our stall of interest. We would be really delighted if you could pay a visit to our stall. With best regards Indira Khurana |