The growing population and development activities such as rapid urbanization, industrialization and agricultural activities create tremendous pressure on available water resources. Groundwater is increasingly tapped for agricultural, drinking and other commercial purposes and thereby the over exploitation causes salt water intrusion especially in the coastal belt area. Water quality is further limited by the pollution from industries and other sources. Harvesting rainwater and recycling can increase the availability of water where supplies are scarce and become an economical and ecological benefit.
Considering the needs, WaterAid Bangladesh came to collaboration with Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a winner of prestigious Stockholm Water Prize, to arrange a training to create wider opportunities at a reasonable cost. After successful training for last many years, WaterAid, in collaboration with CSE, organized it this year too for practitioners in the field of civil engineering, architecture, environment, urban planning, policy-making and development sector who have an interest in the theory, practice and policies of rainwater harvesting system. Participants from various universities and development organizations took part in this training. Nureen Faiza Anisha, Research Assistant from C3ER, participated in this 4 day long training program held at Chuti Resort, Gazipur from 24 September, 2016 to 27 September, 2016.