Jal Sahelis across 200 villages in U.P., M.P. are reviving water harvesting structures and traditional water bodies through community participation.

While acknowledging that recognising the rights of rivers is necessary, would it also be sufficient to bring about the ethics of caring for them?

Alaap has taken on a mountain of a challenge - restoring Himalayan native forests, involving community and engaging with government

Farm ponds can lead to privatization of water by a few, and when dug on a large scale, these schemes ignore the carrying capacity of the watershed.

The campaign has come as a lesson on the strength of combined effort: several NGO partners, grassroots groups, and the Forest Department.

“They realise that groundwater is a common resource, not private property, and hence requires collective action,”

Millets are being made part of the midday meal and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in several districts of Odisha

In dryland areas, falling groundwater levels may be causing working handpumps and borewells to go dry, requiring large capital expenditure.

“This kind of art can make people come to the river, not take it to be just a dirty river but something that you would want to come and see. "