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About drinkPani

‘DrinkPani’ simply refers to the term ‘Drinking Water Information Kit’ and we do believe in ‘Shaping Digital Water Future’. In this research initiative, Youth are the key-actors as Young Water Volunteers (YWVs) assigned officially in Water Clubs/ drinkPani Clubs’. We have launched our own app and website – drinkPani . It reflects the continuous iteration process since a year, with users and advisors to come to this point. This platform is designed to collect, store, transfer and share information on drinking water supply and quality monitoring under the recommended ‘Model’ of the on-going doctoral research (led by Amrita Gautam) – ‘Youth led Participatory Sensing- YPS’. This YPS Model works under ‘Techno-Socio-Institutional-TSI’ Framework, where different components of the model represent all these three aspects of the framework to enhance ‘Drinking Water Security’.

The Team

‘drinkPani’ Team has a vision to support in filling the knowledge-data gap about drinking water security and converting data to information-communication into evidence-informed decision making. We look forward to upscale YPS Model and activities in advancing the required tools and targets to serve and support in solving the issue regarding ‘water supply and quality monitoring using emerging technologies.

Water works in the first line of defense for any bacterial or viral contamination. So, better be careful and use it wisely for now and for all.

drinkPani is here to bridge the gap from its share and our team is quite focused and committed to support any way possible!

	Amrita Gautam PhD Researcher Project Leader
	Anu Dhakal Research Intern Field Work Head
	Prajjwal Uprety Research Intern Lead Designer
	Sammelan Yogi Research Intern Lead Programmer

Kripa Ranjit

Research Intern

Sudarshan Tripathi

Research Intern

Sagar Kunwar

Research Intern

Sabitra Paudel

Research Intern

drinkPani tends to facilitate effective communication between local communities to the policy makers in the national to international context. Think Globally, Act Locally’ or ‘Act Local, Impact Global’ is the motto to set ‘a strong foundation of development in grass-root levels’ and to make ‘the ripple effects without borders’.

Helping for a better community and sustainable world.

The YWVs

Youth are the heart of development if their full potential can be best utilized for resources management like water and all other resources we are surrounded with. There can be a WIN-WIN situation if their involvement can be considered with the fact ‘Youth are the best learners and contributors at the same time.

In this research initiative, Youth are the key-actors as Young Water Volunteers (YWVs) assigned officially in ‘Water Clubs’ with intensive training and tools for water sampling, test, data collection, reporting and sharing under ‘Youth-led Participatory Sensing’- YPS Model in progress. For the pilot case study, two schools named ‘Janapriya Higher Secondary School’ and ‘Gurukul Vidhyashram’ were chosen to cover the area of two selected water supply schemes of ‘Pokhara Metropolitan City’-Nepal.