Posted as of October 4, 2005:
Interested in learning about how to design and install rainwater harvesting systems. Please click on the downloads link on the left and download the rainwater harvesting primers.
Posted as of May 22, 2005:
Interested in sharing your experience about rainwater harvesting? No project is small and every attempt is valiant enough to be presented at this unique world wide forum on rainwater harvesting. Interested? Click on the following link to the XII INTERNATIONAL RAINWATER CATCHMENT SYSTEMS CONFERENCE to learn more on how to present at the conference. Time is short and the world is waiting to listen to and share their experiences. To learn more, visit http://www.ircsa2005.org/
Posted as of May 20, 2005:
Interested in broadcasting the rainwater harvesting message by putting up posters in your organization, colony, school, or institution? Try these two new posters on rainwater harvesting can be downloaded from the download section.
Posted as of October 23, 2004:
Another rain centre has been successfully operating in Trichur Kerala. Read all about it here.
Posted as of October 12, 2004:
Here is an announcement on the November 2005 International Rain Water Harvesting Conference to be held in New Delhi.
Posted as of October 11, 2003:
Sekar Raghavan, Director, Rain Centre is starting a fund raising initiative to install RWH systems at charitable institutions. For more details on how to contribute and also to spread the word around, get details at Global Giving.
Posted as of August 29, 2003:
The next International Rainwater Harvesting Conference, to be held in November 2005 will be held in Chennai, India. Details on the conference will appear later.
Posted as of August 24, 2003:
Rain centre to develop a terrain map of Chennai to develop better design of rainwater harvesting structures. more ...
Posted as of August 19, 2003:
Rain centre completes one year serving the
residents of Chennai. See our accomplishments in to date here.
Posted as of August 14, 2003:
Radio KPFT of Houston Texas conducted interview with Ram Krishnan. The summary is posted
here.
Posted as of June 4, 2003:
Economist carried an article on rainwater harvesting. Sekar Raghavan of Akash Ganga is mentioned in the article.
Posted as of May 3, 2003:
Steady stream of visitors every week to Rain Centre. You can see a few selected pictures here.
PICTURES
Visitors include a Minister from Sri Lanka, movie actress Kushboo to commence showing RWH films. On Feb 23th, Prof Indiresan and his wife Prof Jaya visited the Rain Centre.
Posted as of February 14, 2003:
Click on the regulations link on the left or
here
to see the latest set of Tamil Nadu Government regulations on Rain Water Harvesting.
Posted as of January 03, 2003:
Sekhar Raghavan - Akash Ganga Trust - selected as Ashoka Fellow in recognition of his many years of committment to the cause of finding more drinking water in Chennai. Congratulations. Who is an Ashoka Fellow ?
(Click here -> http://www.ashoka.org/fellows/ashoka_fellow.cfm )
Posted as of November 15, 2002:
Pictures taken at the Rain Centre during October 2002 when Ram Krishnan visited Chennai.
Rain Centre pictures
