Three Water and Sanitation Projects in India Win Online Search

Three Water and Sanitation Projects in India Win Online Search
The winners of a competition held by two groups, Global Water Challenge and Ashoka’s Changemakers will each get $5,000. Transcript of radio broadcast:
25 May 2008

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

A billion people live without a safe water supply. Two and a half billion, or more than forty percent of all people, have no place to use a safe toilet. Recently on the Internet there was a competition to look for creative local solutions to water and sanitation needs.

Two organizations, Ashoka’s Changemakers and Global Water Challenge, organized the worldwide search. Global Water Challenge is a coalition of twenty-two groups working for change in water and sanitation.

Ashoka is a group for social entrepreneurs, people who look for creative solutions to social problems. Its Changemakers.net Web site is an online community where competitions are held. Anyone can vote or provide ideas and resources.

The search for water and sanitation projects received more than two hundred fifty proposals from fifty-four countries. Judges chose nine finalists in April. Then, visitors to the site voted for three winners. All three are from India. Each will receive five thousand dollars from Global Water Challenge.

Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers won for a sanitation project called Slum Networking. It involves looking for natural solutions like gravity-based, house-to-house water and sanitation connections in poor areas.

The project began in the cities of Indore, Baroda, Ahmedabad and Bhopal. Now the aim is to extend it to rural areas.

The Naandi Foundation won for a project for safe drinking water in two states, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. Villagers get clean water at purification centers. Then they sell the bottled water within their communities for small amounts of money.

The third winner is a group leading a sanitation project in Maharashtra and Gujarat states. Swayam Shikshan Prayog works with local governments and women’s groups to change local behaviors and improve sanitation.

Tanvi Nagpal heads the water and sanitation program at Global Water Challenge. She says the Coca Cola Company has given one million dollars to expand several of the proposals in the competition.

This was the first time Global Water Challenge has been involved in an online search. Tanvi Nagpal says the organization may hold another competition in the coming years to look for other inventive ideas.

And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jill Moss. Transcripts, MP3s and podcasts of our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com. I’m Steve Ember.

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3水和卫生项目在印度赢得在线搜索
得奖的竞争举行，由两组，对全球水资源挑战阿苏迦的changemakers将分别得到5000元。全文电台广播：
2008年5月25日

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1亿人生活在一个安全食水供应。两年半亿元，或超过40 ％的所有的人，没有地方可使用一个安全的厕所。最近在互联网上有一个竞争，寻求创造性的解决方案，当地水和卫生设施的需要。

这两个组织，阿苏迦的changemakers和水方面的全球挑战，有组织的全球搜索。对全球水资源挑战是一个联盟， 2002年集团工作的变化，水和卫生设施。

阿苏迦是一组为社会企业家，人谁寻求创造性的解决办法，以社会问题。其changemakers.net网站是一个在线社区，那里比赛的举行。任何人都可以投票或提供的想法和资源。

寻找水和卫生项目共收到超过250的建议，从54个国家。法官选择了九决赛在4月。那么，网站的访客投赞成票的三个得奖者。所有这三个是来自印度。每个将获得5000美元，对全球水资源挑战。

himanshu parikh咨询工程师赢得了一个卫生项目所谓的贫民窟联网。它涉及到寻找自然的解决方案一样，重力为基础，进行挨家挨户的水和卫生设施连接，在贫困地区。

该项目开始在城市中的印，巴罗达，艾哈迈达巴德和博帕尔市。现在的目标是把它扩大到农村地区。

该南迪的基础赢得了一个项目，为安全饮用水的两个国家，安得拉邦和旁遮普省。村民获得清洁的食水在净化中心。然后，他们出售的瓶装水，在其社区内为少量的金钱。

第三赢家是一组领导一个卫生项目，在马哈拉施特拉邦和古吉拉特邦的国家。 swayam shikshan prayog工程与当地政府和妇女团体的改变当地的行为，并改善卫生条件。

tanvi nagpal元首水和卫生设施计划在水方面的全球挑战。她说，可口可乐公司已发出百万美元，以扩大几个建议，在竞争中。

这是第一次对全球水资源挑战一直参与在网上搜索。 tanvi nagpal说，该组织可能举行另一次的竞争，在未来数年，寻求其他发明的想法。

这是该美国之音特别英语的发展报告，写的小杰苔。誊本， MP3和播客我们的报告是在voaspecialenglish.com 。我史蒂夫ember 。