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Bamboo pipes to transport water

By Ranjan K Panda

When all attempts at alerting government to the water scarcity in Orissa’s Malkangiri district failed, a group of tribal women turned to an ingenious traditional solution – using bamboo poles to transfer water from a stream to their village More...

'Glacier man' Chewang Norphel brings water to Ladakh


Chewang Norphel has attempted to generate water and vegetation in barren Ladakh by simply creating artificial glaciers using stone embankments and a few hundred metres of iron pipe More...

Water as a catalyst of change

The N M Sadguru Water and Development Foundation has helped villages in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh set up irrigation cooperatives to manage and distribute water More...

Making the desert bloom

The nomadic life of the Jat tribe in Hazira, in the Rann of Kutch, has been transformed by the discovery and use of water in the desert More...

Putting technology to work for India's poor

A water purifier that requires no electricity, can be set up in 10 minutes in the remotest areas, and that filters out even viruses, has been developed by the polymer division of the National Chemical Laboratory. The filter has immense potential in rural and disaster-prone areas More...

Water management in Pimpalnare: The people succeed where government failed

Two hundred farmers in Nashik district of Maharashtra have formed a cooperative to harness water and irrigate their fields More...

Taking projects out of the lab and onto the land

By Lalitha Sridhar

The ICRISAT-developed Adarsha watershed management project near the village of Kothapally has yielded dramatic results. Groundwater levels have risen, green cover increased, and productivity and incomes in this semi-arid tropic region radically improved More...

Taj Air Caterers turns the focus from megalitres to negalitres

By Lalitha Sridhar

Rainwater harvesting makes news every day. But conservation and recycling of water is equally important. Taj Air Caterers in Chennai shows the way More...

Artificial water recharge raises water table and reduces farming costs in UP

The Uttar Pradesh government's experiment to recharge excess river water, via earthen canals, has succeeded in raising the water table and bringing down cultivation costs More...

 

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