This edition of Towards Sustainability investigates the work of the local NGO Water Harvest through Tlaloc, a part of the Water Harvest team. Talaloc takes us through explaining the solidly sustainable  water conserving and harvesting practices of the Tamil for more than 2000 years of history. Do you ever think that you are using more than your share? Listen to the following interview for some words of Wisdom from Talaloc on how to lessen your impact on our planet.

Dr. Vishal Mehta is a hydrologist and environmental modeler with ten years of experience in water resources, forest conservation and micro-hydropower for rural development. In the talk given by him is presented current work involving the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software system, a scenario-driven water resources software specifically designed for Planning and Policy evaluation. These modeling tools play an important role in providing a Water Resources Perspective on local and regional planning levels and are particularly vital in Auroville, given India’s largely unplanned growth.

Sustainable water resource management  is one of the basis of a sustainable community. Tency, from CSR - Center Scientific Research – give details about the programs Auroville is developing based on studies of  the bioregion aquifer done with the cooperation of the Tamil Nadul government. Reforestation, rain water infiltration and  the conscious use of the resource are the bases of this program. He also explains the devices the communities are using to recycle the waste waters system and  the big project that CSR is developing to  recycle all the waste watter of the city of Pondycherry.

How to deal with water in a sustainable way? Where to get it? Which is he better way to use it in the city and in the farms? What to do with the waste water? How it can be use? This are one of the questions the Auroville faces. The answers and the way Auroville is dealing with it are given here by Tobi, one of the coordinators of L`avenir the Auroville.

Last Saturday AurovilleRadio started a new live broadcast program: “Dialogue with a Dream." The first topic:  “Water” specifically the proposed lake at Matrimandir. This discussion among the experts included; Toby, Prashant, Rauf, Suhasini, Chandresh, Aryadeep and Charlie was constructive and positive. We would like to share a few excerpts from the discussion with the community, as a precurser to the General Meeting on this subject on Monday. Please note that we have tried to compress one hour of discussion into 15 min.
To listen the whole discussion you can pass by the radio and ask for a CD copy.

AurovilleRadio is starting a new monthly program of live broadcasts called "Dialogue with a Dream," in which a conversation will be held on current  topics of interest in Auroville. The whole idea is to bring a dialogue into a session where people from different points of view can express themselves,  initiating dialogue with one another. The proposed topic for this first session is about water, specifically the proposed lake at Matrimandir.
Listen to AurovilleRadio to hear this live broadcast on Saturday, 4th of October,  5:15 pm.

Yann Olivaux, chercheur sur l'eau, est venu à Auroville donner une conférence (que vous pouvez écouter dans son intégralité en consultant la grille des programmes ici). Dans son interview, il nous raconte son parcours atypique qui l'a mené jusqu'à ce "liquide universel", et de son livre: "La Nature de l'Eau" devenu un livre-référence concernant la mémoire de l'eau.
Vous pouvez écouter l'interview en cliquant sur le logo Play ou en la téléchargant.