Palghar tribal learn pure science of the school children
Mumbai, April 3rd: A handful of students from a school in Mira Road last week, a day of the work area, in the arms tribal Thane against microbes that cause that disease outbreaks by of water.
Students, the NL-Dalmia Institute for Management Studies and Research, a trained good, because it shows simple methods for water treatment. The workshop, in which a government led Pali to school, had tribals from Palghar and neighbours talukas Wada, drink and information with great interest.
, Declares Dr Vijay Wagh, associate professor of the Institute:”Palghar and tribal Wada regularly victims of malnutrition and diseases such as cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea. Approximately 99 percent of illnesses are borne by the water, like the tribals not to drink clean water. So we thought it would be easy to teach them methods for the purification of water.”
Adds Afzal Siddiqui staffing and the welfare of tribals, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which organized the workshop:”Tribal children stay in the hostels. They are the most vulnerable to diseases.”If the Ashram school principal, guests of the workshop, BA Dhande,”We have medicines such as chlorine in the tank. This is the only method that we are here to purify water, near a river in a tube.”
Tribal community borewells directly consumes water, rivers and streams. Since water is not, it is not detrimental to people vulnerable to disease. Explains Sukhar Kumbh, Sarpanch village of Pali:”boiling water or buying a filter is expensive for the tribals. You can filter the water only by a thin tissue old.”
It is not surprising that a simple sand filter and a tube of fabric was among the tribals in the workshop. Students have shown that the sand lies between two pieces of cotton, whereby assemblies, thin pieces of fabric. The water is then paid, and if they are filtered.
Students have shown other methods easier to alum, sand and iodine. It also distributes filters with iodine capsules for the tribals.
Careful examination of sand filters, MR Patil, a tribal leader fascinated by Shivaji Nagar, Wada said:”I will try this method, as it is, and we simply can not boiling water, fuel saving.”Sujata Kale, another tribal leader, followed suit:”I will try, the screening process with sand. It is very easy and economical.”
The clincher came, if Dhande announced that it would too with the sand filter of the school. Water”in the main tank is assigned to another small water tanks to tap. We can use this method to purify water.”Bravo!