High levels of ‘ecological poverty’ – defined as the lack of a healthy natural resource which is essential for human society’s survival and development – are a key cause of the economic poverty of the world’s rural poor.

Jal biradari launches movement to drought proof villages

1 1 = 11 People have responded overwhelmingly with money and voluntary labour to a government call to renovate water harvesting structures. The state government has used drought as an opportunity to take long term steps to secure water. This is fast b

A great example of how decentralised approaches to water harvesting boost innovation comes from Ladakh in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Chewang Norphel, retired engineer of the department of

The EK Panch Ek Talaab movement has ushered in a new era for the people of Madhya Pradesh s Shahdol and Mandsaur districts

Rain in a concrete jungle
Short of water, Singapore harvests the rain that falls on most of its land despite industrialisation. The city has found scientific solutions to an important problem in catching urban runoff pollution

The Institute for Rural Development of the Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation ( baif ) has undertaken the excavation of 330 farm ponds in Adihalli watershed, spread over an area of 700 hectares in

Everybody uses water for irrigating farmlands. But Gram Vikas Navyuvak Mandal, a voluntary organisation of Laporiya village in Dudu block of Jaipur district, Rajasthan, has evolved an innovative