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Fashioning Change : The Water Revolution from Within

Fashioning change Water improves agriculture. Agriculture improves animal husbandry. People begin to take care of their watershed, which means more trees and forests. With watershed development, prosper ...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/People/Fashioning-change.htm Sat, 11 May 2013, 23:54:30 UTC

Community Based Efforts : Tank Management Initiatives

Tank management The irrigation tanks (earthen bounded reservoirs constructed across slopes by taking advantage of local depressions and mounds) of South India are symbols of an ancient and rich traditi...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Rural/Dhan.htm Sat, 11 May 2013, 23:56:30 UTC

The Magnitude of the Problem : In Scarce and Unnatural Waters ?

Scarce and unnatural Today, water is an increasingly scarce resource. And the scarcity is very real. There is cause for alarm, but not for alarm-mongering. Freshwater: a scarce resourc...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Crisis/Crisis_Scarcity.htm Sat, 11 May 2013, 23:51:54 UTC

Types of Drought in India

What is drought? Droughts can be of three kinds:- (i) Meteorological drought: This happens when the actual rainfall in an area is significantly less than the climatological mean of that area...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Crisis/Drought.htm Sat, 11 May 2013, 23:51:56 UTC

Water Harvesting Techniques Prevalent In The Western Himalaya

The Western Himalayas The Himalayan mountains bind India in the north by one continuous chain of gigantic peaks. The western half, which stretches from the Kashmir valley to the hills of Uttarancha...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/eco/wh.htm Thu, 06 Jan 2011, 02:21:44 UTC

Local Food Security : The Real Green Revolution

Real Green Revolution-I :Local Food Security The Real Green Revolution is about achieving local food security. Which villager wants to depend on Kansas, or Punjab for that matter, for his or her grain?...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Policy/Localfood-security.htm Sat, 11 May 2013, 23:56:00 UTC

Thar Desert Rural Jal Yodhas

THAR DESERT Barawa village, Rajsamand district, Rajasthan Jawan Lal Rebari Initially involved in adult education and health activities, Jawan Lal took it as a challenge to transform degraded ...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/People/RuralJY_thar-desert.htm Sat, 11 May 2013, 23:55:40 UTC

The Tale of Darewadi Village : Water Management Success

TISDS and CSE revives Paar Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) through its small grant programme assisted Thar Integrated Social ......

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Rural/manapia.htm Sat, 11 May 2013, 23:56:48 UTC

Water Harvesting Techniques Prevalent In The Thar Desert

The Thar Desert covers an area of 44.6 million hectare (mha), of which 27.8 mha lie in India and the rest in Pakistan. The desert is bounded by the Aravalli hills in the east, by the fertile Indus a...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/eco/td.htm Thu, 06 Jan 2011, 02:21:44 UTC

Water Harvesting Techniques Prevalent In The Northeastern Hill Ranges

The Northeastern hill ranges stretch over six Indian states Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya, extending over Bangladesh and northern Myanmar, touching the southern slopes of ...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/eco/nhr.htm Thu, 06 Jan 2011, 02:21:44 UTC

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