Fifteen-year-old Monali Manohar, a Standard X student in a local girls high school in Bhrampura, Gadchiroli, is not aware of the state's environmental issues, neither does she know the significance of rain-water harvesting. However, for the past one year, she has been diligently collecting and storing rain water to make paintings and greeting cards. Her stragtegy: store rain water and use it little by little with her medium, water colour. "Painting has always been her hobby,' says her father Manohar, an assistant to a village engineer, adding, "Monali took to the paint brush at a very young age and she was excellent in making simple nature paintings. We, however, looked at it only as a hobby so far.' All this changed, when Manohar sent one of her paintings to the Doordarshan channel recently. "The channel recognized her art and appreciated her idea of using rain water to make pictures. We are now beginning to realise that her paintings are valuable,' the proud father smiles. Monali has a plethora of about 50 environment-related paintings