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This is the VOA Special English The project began in the cities of

Development Report. Indore, Baroda, Ahmedabad and


Bhopal. Now the aim is to extend it
A billion people live without a safe to rural areas.The Naandi
water supply. Two and a half Foundation won for a project for
billion, or more than forty percent safe drinking water in two states,
of all people, have no place to use a Andhra Pradesh and Punjab.
safe toilet. Recently on the Internet Villagers get clean water at
there was a competition to look for purification centers. Then they sell
creative local solutions to water and the bottled water within their
sanitation needs. Two communities for small amounts of
organizations, Ashokas money. The third winner is a group
Changemakers and Global Water leading a sanitation project in
Challenge, organized the worldwide Maharashtra and Gujarat states.
search. Global Water Challenge is a Swayam Shikshan Prayog works
coalition of twenty-two groups with local governments and
working for change in water and womens groups to change local
sanitation. Ashoka is a group for behaviors and improve
social entrepreneurs, people who sanitation.Tanvi Nagpal heads the
look for creative solutions to social water and sanitation program at
problems. Its Changemakers.net Global Water Challenge. She says
Web site is an online community the Coca Cola Company has given
where competitions are held. one million dollars to expand
Anyone can vote or provide ideas several of the proposals in the
and resources. The search for water competition. This was the first time
and sanitation projects received Global Water Challenge has been
more than two hundred fifty involved in an online search. Tanvi
proposals from fifty-four countries. Nagpal says the organization may
Judges chose nine finalists in April. hold another competition in the
Then, visitors to the site voted for coming years to look for other
three winners. All three are from inventive ideas.
India. Each will receive five
thousand dollars from Global Water And thats the VOA Special English
Challenge.Himanshu Parikh Development Report, written by Jill
Consulting Engineers won for a Moss. Transcripts, MP3s and
sanitation project called Slum podcasts of our reports are at
Networking. It involves looking for voaspecialenglish.com. Im Steve
natural solutions like gravity-based, Ember.
house-to-house water and sanitation
connections in poor areas. Se-dev-water.mp3

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