Archive for May, 2009   Clean Water for Loonwa  Posted by john
hecklinger on May 12th, 2009  [youtube][/youtube]Last month I
had the rare and very moving opportunity to visit a village that
had recently received a clean water plant with funds from The
Eleos Foundation, implemented by the Naandi Foundation, with
GlobalGiving acting as the matchmaker/intermediary.  I visited
Loonwa, a town of 10,000, in India’s beautiful and historic, but
environmentally harsh, Rajasthan state.  Loonwa, and many other
communities in Rajasthan, have a three-fold water problem.
 First, there just isn’t much water – imagine farming in Phoenix
or Las Vegas.  Second, water contained in stagnant ponds during
the rainy season is likely to be contaminated with bacteria and
worse.  Third, due to an unfortunate geological situation, the
groundwater is high in fluoride and other chemicals that leach
into otherwise pure water from wells.  Just enough fluoride
helps teeth grow strong, so they put it in our water and in our
toothpaste.  Too