A forest in trust Krushak Charcha Mandal, Sayagata village, Chandrapur district, Maharashtra Total area 514 ha Forest area 272.38 ha Population 430 Suryabhan Khorbade (... |
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Raj Samadhiyala, Rajkot District, Gujarat Population: 2,000 Initiation of water harvesting: 1986 Water is a major agent of change in this village. Hardevsingh Jadeja , the former sarpanch and th... |
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... District, Gujarat The village spread over 200 hectares supports a population of 600. Groundwater being saline, there was a major drinking water problem in this ...... |
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Selvanayagapuram and Merukukottakudi villges, Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu When modern water supply methods failed to deliver water to villages in Ramanathapuram district, water from renovat... |
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Mangarol block, Junagarh District, Gujarat The Aga Khan rural support program is promoting rooftop water harvesting to ease the attar problem in salinity affected villages of Mangrol block in Junag... |
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Born Again Melaghar village A rural organisation breathes life into the listless people Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Briksha Mitra Sangha a rural voluntary organisation in Tripura Es... |
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Jhabua Government Works Two kinds of peop le live In the villages of Jhabua. a poor tribal district of Madhya Pradesh (MP). Those that saw the forest, and those that worked as migrant labour a few ... |
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THE ISLANDS Jackwells The difference in the physiography, topography, rock types and rainfall meant that the tribes in the different islands followed different methods of harvesting rain and gro... |
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INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS Ahar Pynes This traditional floodwater harvesting system is indigenous to south Bihar. In south Bihar, the terrain has a marked slope -- 1 m per km -- from south to nort... |
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Artificial Glaciers A great example of how decentralised approaches to water harvesting boost innovation comes from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. Chewang Norphel , retired engineer of the department of ... |
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