Learning was never so interesting and fun-filled! Click on the links below to check out some very informative and interesting multimedia e-learning courses. These courses are meant for practitioners in the field of water. So come forward and use these courses to learn and teach about critical issues related to water!

Some of these courses have been developed by us along with subject matter experts. These are meant as a tool for disseminating information in ongoing and future projects. Several of the courses are also collected from other organizations that have made similar efforts.

An excellent presentation from the FAO website: "Discover Water: 10 minute guided tour" . It lays out the relationship between water, agriculture, food security and poverty. The tour offers a synthesis as well as key facts and figures.
  View as a flash presentation: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/art/2007/flash/glance/gallery1.html
View as html: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/art/2007/glance/index.html
Read as pdf (2.5MB): Read More
WASSAN maintains a extensive resource database on System of Rice Intensification (SRI), on their website. In particular, they have created a training booklet covering all aspects of SRI (System of Rice Intensification) including details of the farming practice.
  http://www.wassan.org/sri/
Training Booklet in English (2MB) | Hindi (1.2MB) | Telugu (2MB) | Oriya (1.4MB)
A manual for anyone who wants to make good use of rainwater wherever it falls in the landscape.
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Samaj Pragati Sahyog has created a Watershed Works Manual for use in implementing National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) works. The focus is on earthen watershed structures which are labour-intensive works given priority under NREGA. Size: 15MB
  Read More in English | Hindi
Coping with Drought -Course from ICRISAT
  http://www.vasat.org/learning_resources/drought/cwd/coping_drought.htm
Vermicomposting-Course from ICRISAT
  http://www.vasat.org/learning_resources/VC/index.htm
Course on Crop- Weather Relationships
  http://www.vasat.org/learning_resources/weather/crop_weather_relation.htm
Various Techniques of Watershed Development
  http://members.tripod.com/~mah_watershed/tech.html