What does it take to create and maintain an organic medicinal farm, in the face of rampant development?

Reducing its use in agriculture is the most effective way of solving India’s water problem.

Farm ponds aid in superior water control through the harvesting of rainfall, surface run-off and subsurface flows.

A switch from white meat (poultry) to mutton and other red meat and to consume melon, orange and papaya instead of grapes, mango, guava.

Farmers in Chellapur of Kurnool district have shared their groundwater with their fellow villagers through a groundwater grid

They built check-dams in the watershed, dug percolation-pits and mulched heavily to prevent soil erosion and to conserve water.

We need to promote a decentralised approach, with a key focus on water conservation, source sustainability, storage and reuse wherever possible.

More and more schools adopt this technology, train teachers and ask students to build Arsiron Nilogon as science projects

Clean catchments such as rooftops, roads and storm drains could be used to harvest a substantial volume of the city's rainfall.