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Stories about water filtration around the Sambhar Lake |
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Raju Devi, Kishan Singh, and Ram Chandra contributed stories about their experiences before and after the installation of solar-powered reverse osmosis (RO) water filtration units in villages around the Sambhar Salt Lake in Rajasthan. [Read more] |
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On 20-21 March 2012, the women and men who run the solar-powered reverse osmosis (RO) water filtration units in Jhag, Bhopa ki Dhani, and Sinodiya (Rajasthan) went to Bhavnagar for a refresher course in RO maintenance, given by the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI). See below for pictures. [Read more] |
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Drinking water around the Sambhar Lake |
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The 100-odd villages around the Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan suffer from a crippling lack of safe drinking water because of drought conditions and saline groundwater. FORRAD and Manthan have teamed up to install solar-powered reverse osmosis (RO) water filtration plants in five villages to take this salty water and make it sweet. Watch the slideshow below. [Read more] |
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Drinking Water Update, November 2011 |
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In collaboration with the local grassroots organization Manthan Sanstha, FORRAD has installed solar-powered reverse osmosis (RO) units to filter the salty water in three villages (Sinodiya, Jhag, and Bhopa ki Dani), with two more plants slated for installation in Mordikala and Solawata. The locations for these two additional units have been finalized and the RO units have been prepared for installation by the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI). [Read more] |
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Download the most recent water mapping results from the Sambhar Salt Lake region of Rajasthan (PDF). The tests were done in the pre-monsoon and monsoon periods of 2011. The post-monsoon testing has not yet been completed. |
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