Israeli students install water-harvesting project in Mumbai school

While entering the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)-run Khotwadi Urdu Municipal School in Santacruz, Mumbai one can see a tank made for water conservation.

With the aim to demonstrate practical use of science to school students, a group of college students from Israel who visited the school not only taught them different subjects through a number of experiments, but also made a water harvesting project which will help the school in conserving rainwater and use it further.

Speaking about the initiative, Itay Itzhaky , team leader of group from Israel, said, "We wanted to install a project which will help the students understand how we can implement science in our daily lives. Water which gets collected on the rooftop of the school building during monsoon and is released to the pipeline gets wasted. Instead of wasting it, we thought of building a water harvesting structure which will help to conserve the water."

While this was the fifth batch of Israel students to visit the BMC school through the NGO Heroes of Life and another city-based NGO Triratna Prerna Mandal, this is the first time that the visiting students have installed a project for the further betterment of the school.

Gazal Shah, Principal of Khotwadi Urdu Municipal School, said, "The school students are enjoying these practical learning activities. The conserved water will be used for watering the plant inside the school premises. We usually use the water from the tank, but after this we will be able to preserve the tank water for other use."