Water portal launched in Bangalore

The India Water Portal (http://indiawaterportal.org) now enables readers to share their views, write blogs, share experiences, best practices on water conservation by creating their unique profiles on the portal.

Citizens can address their water woes to experts through their 'Ask the Experts' service, or they can locate a water expert nearby through the directory of water experts.

They can also access 100 years of various meteorological indicators like rainfall, maximum temperature and wet day frequency.

The social networking aspect augments the 13 comprehensive knowledge channels on water — rainwater harvesting, drinking water, water for industry, water for agriculture and climate change, among others.

Each channel has a section called 'Getting Started' for educating the waterconscious citizen, students, teachers and journalists.

The India Water Portal continues to remain an opensource platform, and all the resources on the portal are available for free download. The new features were added today.

The portal is a public initiative of Arghyam, a charitable foundation working in the area of water and sanitation, according to an Arghyam statement.