Terms of reference included project design, training for local NGO s, resource manual production. Royal Chitwan National Park Water Quality Project, Nepal Providing equipment and training to support the establishment of a community based water quality project in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal, in partnership with the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation. This congress included a three day public conference 24-26 August. Our Place is an interactive environmental education project that uses the Internet to link schools in the Murray Darling Basin to each other and to young people on river systems throughout the world. The project is funded by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission.
Participants use the Internet to share first hand accounts about their local environment.
The project has expanded to include 100 schools and community groups from across Australia and overseas. These trainings involved developing Internet competency for teachers and students at each school, including entering water quality data, sending the data by e-mail to stakeholders, using the Internet for communication with other groups and using the World Wide Web. Water is Life Resource Manual for facilitation of environmental congresses on a whole catchment basis. Day Poster and teacher resource package. A full colour poster featuring classroom activities to focus attention on the global water crisis.