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Students and teachers learn about water-testing methods

Photo: E. Lakshmi Narayanan

Learning experience: School students watch water-testing methods being demonstrated at an awareness programme in Salem on Friday. —

SALEM: Students and teachers from different schools in the district were taught the importance of water quality at a one-day awareness programme that was organised on the quality of drinking water.

The programme that was organised with the aim of increasing awareness on the need for clean drinking water and the problems that arise as a result of consuming water that has been contaminated by chemicals or other substances, was organised by the Communication and Capacity Development (CCD) unit of Tamil Water Supply and Drainage Board here on Friday.

The programme was organised under the National Rural Drinking Water and Quality Monitoring and Surveillance programme launched by the Department of Drinking Water Supply as a means of reaching out to those who were in a position to learn about the subject and benefit from it, besides creating awareness on various matters associated with the subject.

Resource persons conducted demonstrations on water testing methods and also the use of field water test kits, for the benefit of the participants in the programme.

The harmful effects of drinking contaminated water were highlighted during the programme.

The board had already started the distribution of field water test units to the rural schools in the district, to enable practical work to be carried out.

Ninety rural schools in Salem district were being covered under the programme.

The programme also aimed at raising the awareness level among villagers on water quality and equipping rural schools to test drinking water sources for quality using the field water test kit.

Students and teachers from 20 rural schools in the district attended the programme. CCD Unit Manager M. Manivasagan and a team of experts from unit conducted the demonstrations.

Similar awareness programmes were held in Mettur, Edapadi and Vazhapadi recently. Another programme would be held on December 10 for schools in Attur region, officials said.

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