The "Zenrainman" channel on YouTube

Guest post from S.Vishwanath of the Rainwater Club and Arghyam
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Dear All,

The Water and Sanitation Channel on youtube-
http://www.youtube.com/user/zenrainman- reached a landmark today with
the number of videos uploaded reaching the 300 mark.

This has been an initiative to document and highlight efforts ongoing
in such fields as rainwater harvesting, eco-san, grey-water reuse,
groundwater recharge , ecological flows in rivers and such allied
issues.

It has now hit a steady view rate of 400 a day and has overall been
viewed nearly 200,000 times . It is the 20th most viewed ALL time
channel from India in the Reporters section and the 20th most
subscribed in the Reporters section ( with such other eminent channels
ahead such as bodybuilding and punjabi cute boy :) )

The latest video uploaded is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEwiG9tAacs&feature=channel_page
on the Chalakudy river in Kerala and to understand the construct and
imagination of a river in modern times.

One of the most popular videos has been on the guppy fish and it has a
young audience to thank that for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7V76FcL2QQ&feature=channel_page
The channel has been the first to highlight such technologies and efforts as

The Persian wheelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNpJ-_iksQ&feature=channel_page

The use of the H2S test for e.coli in waterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV2l6GC9bVc

Eco-sanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqpIt1e2FDM&feature=channel_page

Rainwater harvesting from a polyhousehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNUsM-BtFdA&feature=channel_page

How groundwater exists and moves in hardrockhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lVTPhsvp38&feature=channel_page
and the ever popular

How to grow rice on rooftops with grey waterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gb3QWA7i0&feature=channel_page

The channel has also had eminent personalities on it speaking

Shri Raghuvansh Prasad Singh ex- Union Minister on Rural Developmenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQu_YLbghJ4&feature=channel_page

Dr Tushar Shah on India's groundwater economyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsIZqffY6XE&feature=channel_page

Kalpanatai Salunkhehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xWUePWHJWw&feature=channel_page

I would urge you to spread the word on this channel which the likes of
India Water Portal are doing and also to urge people to subscribe to
it. This will help open up this channel to subscribers in India and
also enable a better collection of videos to emerge . The support of
Arghyam has been crucial to the success of the channel and with
resonses from viewers like this one

"Anyone who lives in the United Sates knows that doctors and engineers
are mostly all from India. And we are glad to have them here!" - on
the video Treating kitchen wastewater or

"Thankyou, gentlemen, for this information!" - on the use of the H2S
strip test for water quality checking

The limitation has been the necessity for a broadband connection to be
able to view the videos . As broadband connectivity and penetration
increases , this too shall become available for more people.

Thank you then for the patience and the support

With warm regards
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Vishwanath S.
www.rainwaterclub.org
www.arghyam.org
www.indiawaterportal.org
www.ircsa.org
www.voicesfromthewaters.com
www.biome-solutions.com
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