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This year’s h2o festival hosted by the NGOs — All for Water for All and the Alliance For Good Governance — that rallies for an eco-sensitive attack to the indispensable assets got nether mode successful the metropolis recently.
According to organisers, WaterFest 2026 which was launched to coincide with World Wetlands Day, volition diagnostic a bid of events implicit the adjacent fewer weeks and reason connected World Water Day, March 22.
According to the AGG, the waterfest is not conscionable constricted to the Puducherry Union Territory but to the full of the bioregion — the Puducherry-Villupuram-Auroville-Cuddalore (PVAC) bioregion — and is frankincense different uncommon and unsocial telephone for enactment astatine a bio-regional level.
The lawsuit is besides possibly the largest, multi-stakeholder programme bringing unneurotic assorted authorities departments, civilian nine organisations, individuals, institutions, people’s organisations unneurotic connected the azygous docket of water. It is simply a constructive, deliberative, citizen-centric festival which calls for enactment for a amended water-secure satellite done a operation of field-level action, national subject research, wetlands assessment, h2o and livelihoods, education, wellness and each imaginable interconnected thematic areas.
Kalamegam Kaliyaperumal, Environment Engineer, Department of Science, Technology and Environment, was the main impermanent astatine the motorboat lawsuit successful the PondyYatchClub.
A ‘Kayak2Clean’ programme was held successful this transportation with volunteers kayaking done the Thengaithittu lagoon to region trash from the mangroves.
A citizen’s subject enactment country to initiate children to biodiversity mapping utilizing apps similar iNaturalist and eBird and exhibitions connected the wetlands and marine beingness of the portion are portion of the events.
