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Each paper is a real research question about water where people live, with the method, the evidence to collect and a raindrop reward already worked out. Choose one that fits you, gather your team and go.
- 1 · Pick a paperOne that fits your area and your time
- 2 · Team upClaim it with friends; your coordinator approves
- 3 · ResearchCollect evidence over about three months
- 4 · Submit & earnHand in your paper and collect raindrops
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Carrying Water Home: Distance, Time and the Person Who Carries Drinking Water on One Residential Lane
This study maps one residential lane to measure how far and how long households travel to fetch drinking water, and who in the family usually carries it. Students run a 40-60 household AKTI survey, conduct 6-10 interviews, take geo-tagged photos, and keep a field diary to compare source types and carrier identity. The goal is a street-level picture of the water-fetching burden, testing whether it falls more on women and girls.
The Price of a Jar: What Households Near One Market Pay for Drinking Water
This proposal has students survey and interview households within a 10-minute walk of one named local market to find out how much they pay per litre for drinking water and how price relates to distance from the market and source type. The team runs a 40-response household survey, 6-8 role-based interviews, and geo-tagged photography of shops, tube wells and carts, then analyzes price-per-litre patterns by distance band. The project produces a locally useful paper on water affordability and access near a single market.
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