As result of the WetsNext project City BluePrint for Ahmedabad in India (a project by Martien Aartsen, read first blog and second blog), the involved partners submitted an article for WaterDigest, an Indian water magazine. Read the article in WaterDigest. See also a poster about this project: Poster City Blueprint Ahmedabad...
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During the Finals of Wetskills-India 2017, Mr. Kartikeya Sarabhai, director of Centre for Environment Education was appointed as Wetskills' international ambassador. Machtelijn and Johan welcomed him by giving him the Wetskilda statue made in South Africa. (Interesting to say is that this hand-made statue was produced in Durban, the city where Ghandi lived for several years before returning to India). "It is second time that we have collaborated with Wetskills. I believe the initiative provides an excellent platform for the young. It's takeaways can also be applied for the Smart Cities initiative of the Government of India" Sarabhai said on the collaboration (source: Times of India). Johan explains Wetskills' choice to ask Mr. Sarabhai: "For Wetskills the focus is on diversity in the teams during our events. Why not in our team of Ambassadors? That is why we strived to have an international Ambassador, who is warmhearted to our programme. Mr....
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blog Wetskills-India 12 January – by Jasper van den Heuvel (Wageningen University)
This day started like any other where we were to leave at a certain time but, as always, we were a bit late.
blog Wetskills-India 11 January – by Jayray Khatri (Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University)
After the Lunch session at Mahatma Gandhi Mandir all moves in their own interest group to see the bridge, Dandi Kutir Museum and Exhibition.
blog Wetskills-India 8 January – by Björn Bolhuis (Utrecht University)
Today was our only free/relaxing day in the programme, but boy it was ambitious…
blog Wetskills-India 5 January – by Floor van den Elzen (Sustainable Development, Utrecht Univeristy)
After four days of getting to know each other, figuring out our cases and doing some preliminary research, day 5 was all about the real-life reality of our cases. Time for field trips.
blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Peter van Leeuwen (Wageningen University)
On Friday the 6th of January we went the Silver Oak campus to get an impression of the area and to discuss our first ideas with several representatives of the partner organisation.
blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Heet Patel (L.D. College of Engineering)
Today, 6th January 2017. I reached CEE at 9:30 early morning at that time students were taking their breakfast. Today we had a field study on our case regarding CETP at OEPL (Odhav Enviro Project Ltd.) located at east Ahmedabad city.
blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Coen van den Nouweland (Utrecht University)
After the first working day, today was the day we would go into the field. Our case study concerned the use of floating pumps in lakes in Ahmedabad, so we decided to visit a few lakes inside the city and see what their current state is.
blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Purvesh Rajpurohit (Silver Oak College)
As the salinity ingress is the biggest problem in coastal area and government is working on this problem since 1970.