…follow the water

About Watercasting

The success of the mobile device market in India has demonstrated that mobile devices can reach diverse and distributed audiences throughout the country. Given their adaptability to online information portals, they represent an access point for individual perspectives that would otherwise remain excluded from data-based services. Pairing people who are experiencing problems with water with those that offer solutions is one step in a positive direction.

This site uses a variety of web and mobile-based services to aggregate information about water and water issues in South Asia. This also makes it possible to offer targeted learning opportunities that focus on efficiency, loss reduction, new technologies, and common sense wisdom. Feedback provides much needed material for assessing deficit knowledge as well as sources for new learning areas.

Mobile access allows individuals to respond quickly to discussions about water issues. Mobile means that potential problems can be reported onsite under direct observation and solutions can be locally targeted. These characteristics have potential to open links between urban and rural communities and strategic partners, bringing the discussion about water into everyday, repeated practice. This creates a higher resolution of responses, mitigating the lack of data on water uses, users, and alternative supplies along with the temporal and spatial granularity needed for better decision-making. Thus, water demand patterns can be researched and better understood in their emerging contexts.