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Caring for Madurai’s Only Waterfall

Nature lovers from the city and villagers join hands to clean the Kutladampatti waterfall under the ‘Friends of Forest’ initiative.

Push irrigation, not dams

We can add millions of hectares to irrigated land without building a single new dam. We just need to adopt a different method of managing the water already stored in them.

Biodiversity spot brought about in a fortnight

... and this Sunday, the 26th of July, i.e just in 15 days, the lake is full of water with fishes, tadpoles, snakes, insects, birds and there are lots of fireflies near lake :)

Groundwater as Commons demonstrated in Mahbubnagar, Telangana

Farmers agreed to pool their groundwater to create a water sharing network. Result? Crops were saved, irrigated area was doubled, harvest increased by 240%!

Harley Davidson and the art of lake maintenance

On every Sunday a group of citizens living around the Jakkur Lake assemble, discuss, carry out bird and reptile censuses, clean, and design and implement ways to manage the lake.

More crop per drop through injection well

This technique utilises rain water for recharging natural aquifers in the rural sector where ponds exist.

மக்கள் வளர்வதற்காகக் காடுகள் பெருகட்டும் (in Tamil)

ஆரோவில் சாதனா வனம்: வரண்ட நிலத்தில் வளர்க்கப்பட்ட காடுகளும், மக்கள் மேம்படுவதற்கு ஏற்ற சமூகச்சூழலும், ஈகைப் பொருளாதாரமும் அமையப்பெற்ற இடம்

Amrutdhara: An initiative to provide affordable clean water with zero plastic waste

“When we cut out the bottle, we could cut costs, and offer what consumers wanted, clean water, at half the price per liter of bottled water ...”

Carved out of rock

Bringing life back into bare rock, a park challenges the idea of a desert as wasteland.