Water literacy and organic farming have now made it to college education. In a rare initiative, a college in Dakshina Kannada has begun teaching them as certificate courses from this year.The Sacred Heart Degree College at Madantyar, near Belthangady, which was offering these courses even otherwise, has taken several other water conservation initiatives over the years. They include roof-water harvesting, rainwater harvesting through percolation pits on campus and building check dams in nearby villages.