World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about taking action to tackle the water crisis. Today, there are over 663 million people living without a safe water supply close to home, spending countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts of using contaminated water.

Globally, the vast majority of all the wastewater from our homes, cities, industry and agriculture flows back to nature without being treated or reused – polluting drinking and bathing and irrigation and losing valuable nutrients and other recoverable materials.

Objectives:

• To make public aware about the judicious use of water.

• To motivate the locals not to pollute the water with discharge of industrial, agricultural and domestic wastes.

• Encourage to conserve and maintenance of the water bodies.

1. Desilting and Cleaning of public drinking well at CurpavaddoQuelossim

World water day is the day to focus the attention of the public on importance of freshwater and its sustainable water use. The Day was observed on 22^nd March every year. This year the Goa State Council for Science & Technology observed the world water day by undertaking cleaning and desilting activity of public drinking well at CurpavaddoQuelossim. The activity was started with small inaugural function.         Mr. Vincent Pereira Ex dy. Sarpanch of Cortalim – QuelossimPanchayat and social worker along with Mr. Deepak Parab, Member Secretary and     Mr.SanjeevChodankar, Mr.PravinParab and Mr. Francisco Lucas officials from Goa State Council for Science & Technology were present for the function.

Mr. Vincent Pereira shared the information about the ancestral well which was never gets dry during summer seasons, he has informed that the surrounding peoples were coming to fetch the water from this well when there is no water supply. He also informed that the well was repaired and renovated with the help of Village panchayat. Deepak Parab, Member Secretary (GSCST) highlighted the importance of the water and advice to conserved the natural ground water resources like well, springs, ponds Lakes etc., While Mr.SanjeevChodankar proposed the vote of thanks.

Under the technical guidance of Mr.PravinParab and Mr. Francisco Lucas the well was cleaned and desilted around 50 locals including children actively involved to cleaned the said well.

Some of the photographs of cleaning and desilting of Public drinking well

Awareness programme for World Water Day

Considering the objective of the World water day and to achieve the desire goals the Goa State Council for Science & Technology, Saligao with the financial support from Department of Science & Technology the programme was organised for the Quelossim and Cortalim villagers of Mormugaotaluka on 13^th April 2018 at Our Lady of Perpetual Soccour Chapel hall at Curpavaddo.

The programme was started with inaugural function                   Mr. Vincent Pereira, Ex Dy. Sarpanch of Cortalim – Quelossim village Panchayat and social worker along with Mrs.Flavia D’Souza senior citizen from local village and Mr.SanjeevChodankar, Mr.PravinParab and Mr. Francisco Lucas officials from Goa State Council for Science & Technology were present for the function.

All the participants were given resource material and informative booklet on Roof top rain water harvesting, after the inaugural function all the participants were served snacks and tea.

The technical session started with talk by Mr.SanjeevChodankar official form Goa State Council for Science & Technology on importance of water and health hygiene, while Dr.Sanchin Tendulkar, Programme Coordinator from Goa Mineral Foundation delivers the talk on conservation of water in our daily life and watershed management.

 Around sixty participants took the benefit of the said programme and the programme was concluded with vote of thanks by Mr. Francisco Lucas.

Some of the photographs of Awareness programme on Observance of World Water Day